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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fenros" data-source="post: 551417" data-attributes="member: 975">I've noticed that here on the boards, that many of you mention Scarred Lands quite a bit. Actually, I've ran into many posts that seem to always contain someone saying how they prefer Scarred Lands over other published campaign settings like Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, etc. Actually, the non-WotC created settings seem to get more applause. Like Kingdoms of Kalamar and Scarred Lands. Although I see it more with Scarred than with Kalamar.What I'm wondering is, why is that? Now, I could go to the local gaming store and sit in the shop and read each books. But I think that's kind of odd to read a product for hours and not buy it. Heh heh. So, could any of you Scarred Lands experts give me a run down as why you prefer this setting over others?  I'm sure you'll say its creative and well written. I think that's a given, but I'd like to hear examples. Can you tell me a little bit of the world history? Is that the neat part? Well, if that takes too long to write down here, just give me little bits you found to be cool about that world. Things that made it a really fun setting to play in.Reason why I ask is, I'm thinking about picking it up. Possibly to game in that world. Usually I homebrew, but being so busy with life both at work and after hours, it would be easier just to use something that has it all thought out for me already. But I want something good y'know? I thought it might be Forgotten Realms. Yeah yeah....I've heard a lot of you make fun of it. But really, in my head I thought " well, people on message boards are sometimes overly critical and nit-picky....so its probably pretty cool". So I went out, flipped through it, fell in love with its presentation, read a few passages, seemed good, and I bought it. Well, I brought it home and started reading it. The more I read it, the less excited I got. At first I'd see things in it that I thought were silly. Like (when I read the history of the Faerun) during the Orcgate Wars the Egyptian gods appear. Because of my tastes, I found this rather silly. However, I thought that I could just ignore it and 'edit' whatever I didn't like as I went along. But later, I found myself editing way too much. To me, with the amount of editing I was doing I could've just went back and homebrewed. But I didn't want to do that. I don't have time.So, I'm willing to buy another Setting book and read it. But this time, heh heh heh....I wanna hear some opinions before I slap down my money <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" /> .I thankyou for any insight, opinions, and reviews you may have to offer.</blockquote>

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