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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7134079" data-attributes="member: 22779">But, again, we're right back to "just ignore stuff".  My ENTIRE problem is the fact that that is NOT a selling point for the setting.  Yes, I am completely aware that I can just ignore stuff.  But, if I'm ignoring stuff, then what's the selling point of Forgotten Realms?  What differentiates the setting from any other setting?  To boil it right down, what's in it for me?Telling me that Greyhawk has too many gods is again, not a selling point for Forgotten Realms.  I have precisely the same problem (although to a lesser extent) with Greyhawk as I do with FR.  I remember when I ran the Savage Tide Adveture Path.  I figured I'd dive into Greyhawk lore and try to really do the setting justice.Holy crap there's a lot of material for Greyhawk.  There's like 22 or so Oerth Journals, each one weighing in at about 30 pages of pretty dense type.  Never minding any of the primary sources as well.  I REALLY have no interest in a setting with 600+ pages of setting material.  Again, wall of material is a non-starter for me.Compare to Scarred Lands, a setting I did get heavily into until they started crapping out books at an alarming rate.  If you confine yourself to Scarn, and not the other continents, you've got about 6 hardcovers and about a dozen soft covers.  Again, to me?  Too much.  I got the original hardcovers, and then just gave up on the setting, despite running it in 3e for several years.If you can't give me a setting in a single 100 (ish) page book, I am simply not interested anymore.  Modules are a bit different, since those are meant to be used at the table.  But reference books?  Yeah, I'll give you about 1 book now until I lose interest.</blockquote>

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