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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lazybones" data-source="post: 17157" data-attributes="member: 143">Wow, people have some pretty strong feelings about campaign settings.  I never played the Realms in 2E, although I read a number of the novels.  I've avoided most of the books, though, as many of them even manage to look cheap and rushed just sitting on the shelf at the bookstore.  I suppose it's that way with any SF/F setting that become popular, as its parent company tries to milk it (e.g. Dragonlance, Star Trek, and any other 'franchise' I can think of).  I guess it's even the same with those cookie-cutter romances and mysteries that publishers pound out...That said, I personally like the 3e Realms.  I bought the setting hardcover a few months back, and thought it was really well put together.  I'm developing a campaign and writing a story hour in that setting, and I don't find it to be too constraining.  I have no plans to integrate any of the "epic" characters except perhaps in cameo roles, and I've had no problems making up details to round out the general entries in the Campaign Setting book.  I know that they put out a huge amount of supplemental stuff in the 2e days  (and that there are plans for the same for 3e), and that all of the stuff in the novels is "canon", but I prefer to just use the basic outline provided in the setting and add my own details to it.  Maybe some of my choices contradict what's in some supplemental or novel somewhere, but heck, I don't care.  I intend to do what the setting book itself said to do, which is to take whatever I want of what they provided and make the Realms my own.  Isn't that what every DM does, whether they play a published setting or homebrew?</blockquote>

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