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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7140748" data-attributes="member: 22779">Took a bit of time to step back and cogitate.  Something that I do realize, and this is purely a personal preference, and is certainly not limited to Forgotten Realms, is that I really don't like big settings.  And FR is BIG.  Bloody ginormously big.  I don't just mean the material associated with FR, but, simply geography.  The setting is freaking huge.Now, my group doesn't tend to reuse settings very often.  In the past ten years of gaming, I've never played in the same setting twice.  Heck, I'd have to go back to almost 2e before I played multiple campaigns in the same setting.  So, for me, a setting with that much geography doesn't really offer anything.  I'm never going to use it, even if I wanted to.  And, more specifically to FR, a lot of the setting guides are pretty high altitude.  They detail out the country in question, maybe talk about its history and some of the big movers and shakers, but, at least from the supplements I've seen, there's very little at "street level" in the supplements.  So, it really doesn't appeal to me that FR gives me dozens of different countries.  I prefer setting guides that are far more local.  Things like Ptolus, or Freeport, or even modules like the old Isle of Dread or, heck, going all the way back to Keep on the Borderlands is all the geography I really need to run my campaigns.This is why I adored the Curse of Strahd module.  The entire campaign takes place in an area, what, 100 miles across?  Is it even that big?  My current campaign that I'm running is in Primeval Thule.  The entire setting is only about 1000 miles across and a good chunk of that is water.  And, really, the campaign will likely hit 10th level in an area maybe 300x300 miles.  And that's stretching things.  Dragonlance, if you only deal with Ansalon, is only 1200 miles across.  It's TINY compared to even the Sword Coast.Again, I'll just repeat myself here, this isn't specific to FR.  There's a reason I haven't really used Greyhawk in a very long time.  Sure, I ran the Savage Tide AP, which is set in Greyhawk, but, I only ran the first five or six modules (until the end of their time on The Isle of Dread) and three of the modules are set on the Isle of Dread.  Outside of Sasserine, and the trip to the island, the PC's never saw more than a tiny sliver of the setting.</blockquote>

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