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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 7136052" data-attributes="member: 6801060">500+ posts in, and I can only come to the conclusion that it's such a well-worn stick with which to beat the setting that those wielding the stick not only no longer question the validity of the argument, they willfully blind themselves to any counter-arguments to that point of view. Innumerable posts have been made here pointing out that high-level NPCs can be toned down, ignored, or even outright killed off if the DM running the game so wishes, with little or no detriment to the setting itself, yet those on the other side seem to continue to state that the Realms can only be faithfully run as the Realms if such NPCs are heavily used and abused. I can only assume that they believe that if through some black sorcery some FR-loving DM actually managed to break free of this adamantine literary bond and was able to run a Realms campaign with little or no mention of these high-level NPCs, Elminster himself would teleport in with Drizzt, and the drow would hold the DM at scimitar-point until such time as this egregious error was rectified! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>