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<blockquote data-quote="gyor" data-source="post: 7126621" data-attributes="member: 6670153"><p>That is an extreme overstatement, FR never tried to detail every single village, nothing stops you from adding a village. </p><p></p><p> And the powerful NPCs issue is another Red Herring, just don't use them if you don't want to. </p><p></p><p> Or play villians that takes out those NPCs. </p><p></p><p> Or have the NPCs act as mentors to the PCs, a kind of passing of the touch. </p><p></p><p> Or cause a situation where the PCs have to rescue Elminster. </p><p></p><p> Have Elminster go on vacation, he can use it. </p><p></p><p> So yeah it's detailed, it adds immersion. </p><p></p><p> The real reason the some people online hate FR (and the are smaller, but loud then the fans obviously), is the WotC made the bad decision to focus mostly on one setting, FR (although barely even that), and left the other favourite settings that people love rotting on the vine. </p><p></p><p> This created a us vs. them situation where FR is seen as being in the way of other setting. </p><p></p><p> It's not good for FR as it causes haters and it's not good for none FR fans, because their favourate settings rot on the vine. </p><p></p><p> </p><p> WotC has not been handling settings very well. They should be doing two Setting Core books per year, but they haven't even done one (SCAG is a snack it doesn't count). </p><p></p><p> And all haters who are like FR is too detailed, she love 5e FR were barely anything gets detailed. We don't even know FRs current cosmology.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gyor, post: 7126621, member: 6670153"] That is an extreme overstatement, FR never tried to detail every single village, nothing stops you from adding a village. And the powerful NPCs issue is another Red Herring, just don't use them if you don't want to. Or play villians that takes out those NPCs. Or have the NPCs act as mentors to the PCs, a kind of passing of the touch. Or cause a situation where the PCs have to rescue Elminster. Have Elminster go on vacation, he can use it. So yeah it's detailed, it adds immersion. The real reason the some people online hate FR (and the are smaller, but loud then the fans obviously), is the WotC made the bad decision to focus mostly on one setting, FR (although barely even that), and left the other favourite settings that people love rotting on the vine. This created a us vs. them situation where FR is seen as being in the way of other setting. It's not good for FR as it causes haters and it's not good for none FR fans, because their favourate settings rot on the vine. WotC has not been handling settings very well. They should be doing two Setting Core books per year, but they haven't even done one (SCAG is a snack it doesn't count). And all haters who are like FR is too detailed, she love 5e FR were barely anything gets detailed. We don't even know FRs current cosmology. [/QUOTE]
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