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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nisarg" data-source="post: 1787688" data-attributes="member: 19893">My answer would be that MY forgotten realms are my favourite version.These days I only use the 3e FR main book, which brought me back to FR after almost a decade of disgust with that setting. I do not recognize ANY material in any of the other FR books (regardless of edition), though I do use some of the stuff from Underdark (very good book, that one); and furthermore I have altered large swaths of the material from the FR main book to suit my preferences.In other words, players who visit the realms in my campaigns are warned that these are not the realms that have anything to do with any of the main published material, and that they shouldn't try to infer any knowledge they have from years of playing in the FR.  Those who try to do so will tend to be badly disappointed and misinformed in actual play, sometimes with serious consequences for them... I really do love some of the stuff WotC has done with FR, I think its finally being done right after years of being nothing but a vehicle for terrible story-based metaplot-laden gaming, but the sheer weight of information, and the sheer number of obsessive FR-fanatics who know more than you do about the "canonical" realms means that IMO the only way to run it well (short of being one of those fanatics yourself) is to personalize the hell out of it.Nisarg</blockquote>