Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 7131586" data-attributes="member: 6785785">There are reasons I can understand somone not liking a setting. I am not a big fan of Spelljammer. I never really took to Ebberon. I don't hate those settings, and I'm sure there are aspects that I would or could like about them, but they're just not my cup of tea. I just think that many folks who are saying that they don't like the Realms are actually complaining about something else. In the case you cited, as [MENTION=6102]Selvarin[/MENTION] already pointed out, the problem was the player being unwilling to play in the game proposed. Or perhaps we could say that the problem was about mismatched expectations or desires within the gaming group. All players in a game should have expectations that are along the same lines. But certainly the scenario you describe isn't unique to the Forgotten Realms. Sure. There are degrees to which the material is used. I'd say a map, some locations, world elements or organizations is enough to say you're playing a Realms based game. You consider it something a bit different, and that's fine. Others would have differing definitions, and everyone would be right, as you say. It's a matter of semantics. But this is my point...you or your DM (or both, it sounds like) drew inspiration from the material. And that's really all any setting content is meant to do. To inspire gamers for their home game, whatever it may be. Something about the Kingdom of Many Arrows interested you, so you used it. Parts of Waterdeep interested your DM, so he based things there. Even if all that interested him was the time it saved him having to make a map and some names up himself. So to me, a lot of people who claim to hate the Realms seem to be more upset by some perceived need to remain utterly faithful to the source material instead of simply using it as an inspiration for their game.</blockquote>

Verification