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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Testament" data-source="post: 2116264" data-attributes="member: 21833">I find it interesting that the very thing that drives people to like Forgotten Realms, or as I think of it "elFRealms", is what drives me to hate it.  Quite simply, its monumentally overdeveloped.  Wingsandsword might love the fact that everywhere has a history, a culture, a story, but I can't stand that.  I want my tabula rasa, and more importantly, I want to remove the horrific metagaming potential that comes with the players being able to know all about these places.It's also the biggest powergaming setting WotC have ever released, just look at Magic of Faerun, Faiths and Pantheons, and even just the domains in the FRCS.  Lets not forget that using only WotC books, an Elf Cleric from FR is still the best dang archer you can make.  And on the topic of Elves, just how many different flavours does FRealms have?  Heck, how many subraces are there for the core races there?Finally, there's the issue of how cobbled together it feels.  Every region is so fruggin' different that it makes no sense to me how this world came to exist.  Mulhorand especially feels out of place, it seems more like an excuse for Egyptian style games in the same world.  The absurdly large number of uber NPCs is just the final nail in the coffin.Dragonlance is also a little-loved setting for me, mainly because of the enslaving metaplot for the different ages, and Kender.  Stupid little communist kleptomaniac hyperactive 5 year old race.  Gully Dwarves were just annoying, whilst Tinker Gnomes were just...silly.Finally, no love for Spelljammer.  Nothing about it made any kind of sense, and the way that it invaded every other setting was even worse than the fruggin' Hippos with monocles and high explosives.</blockquote>

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