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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Selvarin" data-source="post: 7131715" data-attributes="member: 6102">"There's too much info!"---Don't use it. If all you need are the maps and some general ideas on what's what, boom. You're in."There's too many high-level characters!"--Easily remedied. You may still dislike the ones published in 'canon' but, again, it's easily ignored.I think we get it. That and other complaints are valid reasons to be turned off of making purchases or otherwise becoming invested in it. What we're saying is that both of those listed are easily avoided by purchasing the basics and accepting--yes, accepting and without some weird form of guilt--that some of what's published doesn't work for you. Don't like the part where some inn is run by a retired 16th level bard? FWOOM Now he's a 7th level bard, 3rd level, or maybe even the inn keeper is a washout from the local militia named Wilfreid.Seriously, one of the things that made RPGs more tolerable for me was accepting A) I would never play in or run a 'pure' RPG, B) whatever it was had to work for me, and C) as long as it captured the spirit then it would feel right enough. IMO running a game in the Realms is like adapting a book into a movie. It's a separate adaptation, something of an echo of whatever's been published. So the main parts will apply--maps, locale descriptions, etc--but that certain particulars will not. And that I will not lose my cred by adding something that isn't 'FR': including the drow city of Sheoloth, parking a city of necromancers from another world on the edge of Anauroch near Evereska, modding the map a little to add a few extra touches (some more forest, a few extra towns, etc.).Let me put it another way: I'm in my 40's and even with a basic set-up of any campaign world i will never utilize it all before I die or get shipped to an old folks' home. Just like I will never fully utilize or enjoy every character race and class combination. Life is too short, game on.</blockquote>

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