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<blockquote data-quote="haiiro" data-source="post: 563457" data-attributes="member: 1891">SL and FRThis is definitely a two-edged sort of thing. On the one hand, so much detail means you can open up the FRCS hardcover to pretty much any page, read a paragraph or two, and have a starting idea for a game.On the other hand, there is a LOT to soak in, and players who want slavish attention to the canon details can be a problem.I have a big soft spot for the Realms, particularly for the older stuff (the first grey boxed set and the Vaasa and Damara supplement most of all). Something about it always seemed very believable, particularly when played as a lower-magic, pre-Avatar Trilogy world (rather than as written).The price thing for SL books is a biggie, though. I love being able to pick up a fascinating setting book like Hollowfaust for $20 or less. There's also such a unified, woven-together feeling about the SL stuff I've read so far - it just keeps you wanting to know more. Good stuff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="haiiro, post: 563457, member: 1891"] [b]SL and FR[/b] This is definitely a two-edged sort of thing. On the one hand, so much detail means you can open up the FRCS hardcover to pretty much any page, read a paragraph or two, and have a starting idea for a game. On the other hand, there is a LOT to soak in, and players who want slavish attention to the canon details can be a problem. I have a big soft spot for the Realms, particularly for the older stuff (the first grey boxed set and the Vaasa and Damara supplement most of all). Something about it always seemed very believable, particularly when played as a lower-magic, pre-Avatar Trilogy world (rather than as written). The price thing for SL books is a biggie, though. I love being able to pick up a fascinating setting book like Hollowfaust for $20 or less. There's also such a unified, woven-together feeling about the SL stuff I've read so far - it just keeps you wanting to know more. Good stuff. [/QUOTE]

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