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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7131637" data-attributes="member: 22779">That would be fine the first time.  Heck, even the second time, just to make sure.  But, after repeated statements detailing that I don't like the Realms because of the volume of material I feel that I would need to use in order to play in that setting (whether you think you need to use it or not is irrelavent - I'm telling you what I feel), I get the feeling that my issues are being pretty much ignored.Well, fair enough.  We're talking about needing a single source book now.  Ok, fair enough.  Although, running a War of the Lance era game without at least having the modules would be very difficult.  You could run something that is loosely based around Dragonlance, but, anyone with even a passing familiarity with the setting wouldn't recognize it outside of a couple of proper nouns.  The DL Adventures book (the one I'm assuming you're talking about) really does require the modules in order to make much sense.  There are a LOT of references to the modules contained in that book.  Which makes sense.  DLA was meant as a supplement to the modules, not really a campaign book in and of itself.I mean, while DLA does have a map of Ansalon, it's a very sparse map with almost no detail.  It basically has the capital cities of each country and that's about it.  You'd have a pretty uphill battle running a campaign set in War of the Lance with just that book.  But, again, that's MY POINT.  I could run a WotL campaign with the modules and one book.  That's it.  That's all it would take to run a pretty much full on canon DL campaign of that period.  A pretty minor investment to get all the canon available.If I wanted to have that level of canon in a Forgotten Realms game, I'd need dozens, if not a couple of hundred supplements.  Monster books, various country guides, class splats (TWO full gods books alone in 2e), dozens of Dragon magazine articles, on and on and on.Do I absolutely need these?  Maybe not.  But, the fact that they are there means that I am NOT INTERESTED in starting.  That mountain of material means that I have zero interest in running an FR game.  None.  Zero.  Nada.  It is a barrier to my entry into the setting.Since that barrier doesn't exist for a lot of other settings, I would much rather run those settings.  I have no problems running published settings.  I ran Scarred Lands for years in 3e.  I am running a Primeval Thule game right now.  Published settings isn't the problem.  FOR ME the problem is any time I pick up a Forgotten Realms supplement, I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that that supplement will reference several, if not dozens of other sources.  Sorry, not interested.</blockquote>

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