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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 8136681" data-attributes="member: 7026594">While I agree with most of your (excellent) post, I will quibble with a detail here.  FR was the flagship setting for 2nd Edition, and thus the "default" world from about 1989 until the late 90s, and remained popular with a LOT of players after that, even though 3E brought us back to Greyhawk.  I think this started around 1987 (in 1st Ed) with the original grey box FRCS set, followed by the rapid publication of popular novels like Bob Salvatore's Drizz't books. TSR really put a ton of focus into FR as the replacement for Greyhawk in the (still relatively recent) wake of Gary's ouster from the company, and in pushing TSR's novel publishing, which still substantially featured Dragonlance and other settings, but as I recall gave FR novels a great deal of prominence.  While the 2nd ed PH & DMG did not include any setting-specific deities or similar details, Dragon magazine, the novels, the Forgotten Realms Adventures hardcover supplement (with its incredibly popular Specialty Priests Cleric variants), and modules at the time really focused heavily on FR, though TSR also published a number of other settings, among which Greyhawk was sadly relegated into a secondary or tertiary player during that period.  Rules content like the Complete Book of Elves presenting FR Bladesinging, or The Drow of the Underdark also put more emphasis on FR concepts.FR remained highly popular through the 3E and 4E periods, being (IIRC) one of only two (?) settings to get its own hardcover during 4E, along with Dark Sun.  I agree with at least 90% of your post, but do I think you're giving FR short shrift.</blockquote>

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