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<blockquote data-quote="Lurks-no-More" data-source="post: 4692462" data-attributes="member: 8226"><p>Pretty much my opinion. 3e FRCS is one of the best D&D books I've seen, and overall an excellent gaming product... but its greatest strength is also its biggest problem: the amount, and density, of information it presents.</p><p></p><p>I'm one of those gamers who's happy to toss canon overboard when it conflicts with my ideas of what's fun, and how my campaign should go - but a lot of people aren't. And new players and DMs especially can get overwhelmed by the amount of stuff the 3e Realms has.</p><p></p><p>With 4e, they shook things up and changed the presentation somewhat. There's still Cormyr, and Dalelands, and Waterdeep and Silverymoon, with fairly small changes, for those who hearken back to previous editions... and lots of altered regions for those who want to explore the changed Realms, or plop their own ideas down somewhere without having to displace big chunks of existing stuff.</p><p></p><p>They also cleaned up the sprawling pantheon a bit, and eliminated or weakened some of the most prominent NPC forces, both of which have been repeatedly brought up in the past when people have complained about the issues they have with FR: a God for everything, and an archmage around every corner.</p><p></p><p>And the best thing about this all is: you don't have to buy the new campaign setting! Just get the player's guide for the (fine) crunch, and use it with the old setting information from 3e book; I know one long-running campaign where they did exactly this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lurks-no-More, post: 4692462, member: 8226"] Pretty much my opinion. 3e FRCS is one of the best D&D books I've seen, and overall an excellent gaming product... but its greatest strength is also its biggest problem: the amount, and density, of information it presents. I'm one of those gamers who's happy to toss canon overboard when it conflicts with my ideas of what's fun, and how my campaign should go - but a lot of people aren't. And new players and DMs especially can get overwhelmed by the amount of stuff the 3e Realms has. With 4e, they shook things up and changed the presentation somewhat. There's still Cormyr, and Dalelands, and Waterdeep and Silverymoon, with fairly small changes, for those who hearken back to previous editions... and lots of altered regions for those who want to explore the changed Realms, or plop their own ideas down somewhere without having to displace big chunks of existing stuff. They also cleaned up the sprawling pantheon a bit, and eliminated or weakened some of the most prominent NPC forces, both of which have been repeatedly brought up in the past when people have complained about the issues they have with FR: a God for everything, and an archmage around every corner. And the best thing about this all is: you don't have to buy the new campaign setting! Just get the player's guide for the (fine) crunch, and use it with the old setting information from 3e book; I know one long-running campaign where they did exactly this. [/QUOTE]
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