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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7135021" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>And that's just it. FR has a mountain of material, and from that mountain you can choose which bits of rock you're going to mine for your own FR game. At the same time I can choose some different bits to dig my mine into, meanwhile everyone else who has posted in this thread also has their own mining operations. Some of those mines might overlap, but hey - it's a big mountain; there's room for all of us.</p><p></p><p>I ran a 12-year campaign that was nominally set in gray-box FR, only I took pretty much everything north of Waterdeep and west of the Anauroch waste and rebuilt it - different map, different cities (same names, though, in many cases), different realms, etc. This way, I could have "my own setting" while still having all of FR to fall back on if either a) my setting just wasn't good enough, or b) the party decided to go where the map was blank (parties do this). And yes, a party went down as far as Baldur's Gate and the Amn peninsula for a few adventures - no big deal. And a thief got chased to the Moonshaes, and many shopping trips went to Waterdeep. That's about it for the interaction with the "real" FR.</p><p></p><p>Which means, in all that time I never once had to think about what might be happening in Shadowdale or Silverymoon or anywhere else my campaign didn't go. Even if I hadn't changed the map, my story mine would have been on or near the Sword Coast for most of the campaign...that's the bit of the mountain I was using.</p><p></p><p>Lan-"and though it was at times sorely tempting to have Drizz't show up at some point so the party could kill him, in the end I just couldn't be bothered"-efan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7135021, member: 29398"] And that's just it. FR has a mountain of material, and from that mountain you can choose which bits of rock you're going to mine for your own FR game. At the same time I can choose some different bits to dig my mine into, meanwhile everyone else who has posted in this thread also has their own mining operations. Some of those mines might overlap, but hey - it's a big mountain; there's room for all of us. I ran a 12-year campaign that was nominally set in gray-box FR, only I took pretty much everything north of Waterdeep and west of the Anauroch waste and rebuilt it - different map, different cities (same names, though, in many cases), different realms, etc. This way, I could have "my own setting" while still having all of FR to fall back on if either a) my setting just wasn't good enough, or b) the party decided to go where the map was blank (parties do this). And yes, a party went down as far as Baldur's Gate and the Amn peninsula for a few adventures - no big deal. And a thief got chased to the Moonshaes, and many shopping trips went to Waterdeep. That's about it for the interaction with the "real" FR. Which means, in all that time I never once had to think about what might be happening in Shadowdale or Silverymoon or anywhere else my campaign didn't go. Even if I hadn't changed the map, my story mine would have been on or near the Sword Coast for most of the campaign...that's the bit of the mountain I was using. Lan-"and though it was at times sorely tempting to have Drizz't show up at some point so the party could kill him, in the end I just couldn't be bothered"-efan [/QUOTE]
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