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<blockquote data-quote="Ibrandul" data-source="post: 8471775" data-attributes="member: 6871736"><p>I'm the rare soul who adores both Aventuria and the Forgotten Realms.</p><p></p><p>In many ways they're quite similar:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">inescapable living-history metaplots</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">kitchen-sink hodgpodges of multiple settings welded onto one another</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">inherently corporate commodities, but with eccentricities of a kind that would never make it to print if the settings were newly designed today</li> </ul><p>But in other ways they're quite dissimilar:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">an absolutely enormous geography in which traveling between two locations within one tiny corner of the world takes weeks, sorry "tendays" vs. a continent rather too small to realistically contain all the diverse biomes it's supposed to</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">super-high magic vs. low-ish magic</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">North American vs. Western European</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Renaissance historical vibes vs. feudal medieval vibes</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">an inexplicably palpable sense that this is only one of many settings for its game, and one that was originally someone else's playground vs. an equally palpable sense that this is the <em>only</em> setting for its game but also that there is no single person who thought this place up</li> </ul><p>And yet somehow they both work so well for me that I'm unable to choose only one or the other. But I might well be alone in the universe in that regard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ibrandul, post: 8471775, member: 6871736"] I'm the rare soul who adores both Aventuria and the Forgotten Realms. In many ways they're quite similar: [LIST] [*]inescapable living-history metaplots [*]kitchen-sink hodgpodges of multiple settings welded onto one another [*]inherently corporate commodities, but with eccentricities of a kind that would never make it to print if the settings were newly designed today [/LIST] But in other ways they're quite dissimilar: [LIST] [*]an absolutely enormous geography in which traveling between two locations within one tiny corner of the world takes weeks, sorry "tendays" vs. a continent rather too small to realistically contain all the diverse biomes it's supposed to [*]super-high magic vs. low-ish magic [*]North American vs. Western European [*]Renaissance historical vibes vs. feudal medieval vibes [*]an inexplicably palpable sense that this is only one of many settings for its game, and one that was originally someone else's playground vs. an equally palpable sense that this is the [I]only[/I] setting for its game but also that there is no single person who thought this place up [/LIST] And yet somehow they both work so well for me that I'm unable to choose only one or the other. But I might well be alone in the universe in that regard. [/QUOTE]
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