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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cbas10" data-source="post: 1299142" data-attributes="member: 6459">I'd like to give a voice to the current-day players who do not have the gaming experience (read: the decades of gameplay) or the time & money to have access to all of the older original Greyhawk books (many of which are collector's items and can be quite expensive; hardly something that is commonly accessible).  As it is, the Living Greyhawk Gazeteer is out of print, but it and FRCS are both 3.0 game books.In this context, FR certainly appears to be a higher-magic setting.  I'm not saying this in a negative sense; rather more of an observation of the comparisons between the books.  Since Greyhawk has only seen a core setting book in 3.x, compared to a myriad of FR's regional books as well as a core setting book, I'll just compare core settings.Forgotten Realms has oddities and obviously massive and epic feats of magic currently active in the setting: City of Shade, Undermountain, Tilverton (or whatever remains), countless metropoli (including 3 on a single island), Waterdeep (over a million inhabitants in a single city indicates magical effects clearly negating the lack of modern sanitation & refrigeration), Magocratic governments, and literal magical caravans full of wizards mass producing magical items.Greyhawk certainly has a few of these things in common with FR, but rarely (if ever!) to such dizzying hieghts.[[Not a response to the post I quoted as much of a response to the forum in general;]]Some people love to put a lot of effort into adding on to a setting, homebrewing a setting, and even rewriting settings.  It's all good; the versatility of this game is probably the best feature about it.  However, for those players and DMs who log more hours in actually playing than preparing, Forgotten Realms simply does have a larger frequency of magic appearing in the setting and a greater impact of magic upon the setting.</blockquote>

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