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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mean Eyed Cat" data-source="post: 3947985" data-attributes="member: 4564">First, I have always really liked most aspects of the Realms as a game setting.  Here are my answers:1) I definitely like the game side better [explanation below].2) First introduction was the game, starting with the grey boxed set.  I DMed a bunch of games in this setting.  Pretty quickly after I started running games, I read the novels.  I started with the Moonshae trilogy (loved), the Icewind Dale trilogy (okay), first three of the Avatar series (okay), and the Maztica & Empires trilogies (meh).  I think the last series I tried to read was the Cleric Quintet and I never made it through because I found them boring. This pretty much turned me off from the books.  However, I recently read the The City of Ravens and actually liked it.3 & 4) The game lead me to the novels.  Other than the Moonshae trilogy and maybe The City of Ravens, I probably could do without the novels.  I still run a FR game (we're going on our 4th year, yay!) and I will probably start up a new FR game when 4th edition comes out.To me, there is a big difference between the game side and the novels.  With the game, I am able to change things and, along with my players, make it our own (which we do a lot).  Just because something is canon, doesn't necessarily mean it is in our games.  With the novels, you are reading somebody's else's version of the Realms.  And truth be told, their version (and particularly their style of writing) isn't always good  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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