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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shazman" data-source="post: 1299498" data-attributes="member: 13509"><p>I think that Forgotten Realms is no more high magic than Greyhawk or any other standard campaign setting.  As long as the DM keeps the epic NPC's and things like spellfire and elven high magic in the background where they belong and doesn't hand out magic items and gold like candy, it's pretty much a standard magic setting.  Sure, there may be more material on magic in the Realms than other settings, but most of should be kept in the background.  I'd say most of it was actually given rules to help sell FR products and to appease its many fans.  Let's face it, once 3.0 came out, products without crunch didn't sell very well.  Just remember for every Elminster in FR, there's a Mordenkaiden, Dalamar, etc. in other campaing settings.</p></blockquote><p></p>