Why Do You Like the Forgotten Realms? [Archive] - Wizards Community

Why Do You Like the Forgotten Realms? [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Ardashir
11-24-04, 10:29 AM Like it says above -- what first drew you to the Realms? What makes you stay?

For me, the first thing that drew me was the richness of the setting, and the way one was made to care about the place. The people seem almost like folks one knows (I don't think Ed Greenwood could create a boring character) and they all come across as having lives beyond the campaign or adventure.

And then there's the epic span that doesn't overshadow the characters; I really can believe that there's room for a bunch of beginning PCs as well as folks like Elminster, the Seven Sisters, and the Red Wizards. Even if Elminster seems to spend a lot of his time raiding Ed's fridge and otherwise driving the poor man up the wall... >:)

And I'm staying because they manage to keep it fresh. I don't love every single change over the years, but then, one doesn't need to use everything (Lolth is AWOL? Bye-bye Drow. Bet old Gromph is kicking some butt in Menzobarranzan...). Really just a very /real/ world to me, with very real folks living in it.
maynardjkeenan
11-24-04, 12:23 PM When I was a youngin... I bought the grey box campaignsetting.. I was young and stupid, thinking it had the rules in it. It didn't. :)
GothicDan
11-24-04, 12:31 PM I happened to just pick up the campaign setting for the heck of it. For the first year or so of playing, I just got the three core books of 2E, and I sort of then grabbed whatever looked interesting on the shelves. the 2E FRCS had a cool cover and cool flavor text on the back, so I picked that one. :)

The thing that really keeps me in the Realms? It's my outlet for high/Epic level stuff and for my disgusting bias towards Wizards. It's the high magic setting for a reason!

And it's true that the Realms seems the most like a realistic setting. My first and true love is Planescape, but that's obviously for different reasons than I like the Realms. My second is Dragonlance, because it has that Epic good vs. evil feel to it, with very distinctive, individualistic organizations (Towers of High Sorcery, Knights of Solamnia, etc.). I sort of like it for the opposite reason than I like the Realms.

But Forgotten Realms is still very nice, of course.
Kuje31
11-24-04, 01:12 PM The background, the lore, the npc's, the novels (well most of them), the history, everything basically. :)
Draco Strang
11-24-04, 02:19 PM *sigh*

I'll admit it.....Drizzt drew me to the Forgotten Realms. A friend of mine read the Dark Elf trilogy, and then i borrowed it, and that lead to the Crystal Shard books, and from there, a full blown addiction to Elminster and the rest.

I started playing DnD in '96, and was playing Greyhawk. Then, soon after, dove into FR.

God Bless FR....and all those dual-wielding scimitar chaotic good dark elf rangers. (note sarcasm)

I really do dig the Realms though.
Lawless
11-25-04, 08:25 AM Wow tough call. My best friend got me into D&D many, many, moons ago, (trying not to date myself). First playing a homebrewed world then Dark Sun and Planescape. Wanting to read about those worlds, which at the time I could find a novel on either one I stumbled across Icewind Dale by accident. From there I branched out read other books started thumbing through source books etc. until I found myself hooked. I don't love everything about FR but I Ed seems to have thought of darn near everything about creating the world. FR has a ton of history and detail and yet leaves nearly just enough open for you to go crazy with create something new. FR isn't stacked necessarily against you like Dark Sun, and by default of being a god riddled whole world it does not have the abstract limitations of Planescape (which comes in a very close 2nd). I'm not a big fan of perpetual Epic action, but FR has it when you want it and it also has the more mundane mortal stuff to.
Alisttair
11-25-04, 06:32 PM It started with the Eye of the Beholder game for SNES. This drew me to checking out the ads for FR in the inside of the covers of the 2E PH and DMG.

From there I went and read The Legacy, which I absolutely loved despite not having read all the prior novels. Then I went on to buy the FRCS 2E. It was great fun to play with my peeps in there and all the stuff about it, all the minute details about everything keeps me there.
Scererar
11-25-04, 07:57 PM for me, it was reading spellfire, my first fr novel
Cole Deschain
11-25-04, 09:47 PM Sheer laziness. I was racking my brain trying to come up with details for a "mongol invasion" of a european-style setting... and presto! There was the Horde boxed set, nicely back up by at least one fairly good novel.

Yeeee-haw.

(For the record, the party was to side with the Tuigan... heh heh heh. Take that, Azoun!)
Forsaken_Rocker
11-26-04, 03:25 PM this was done no more than a month ago...

I like it becaue, for one i love storytelling, and for two because its just so damn big, with infinate possiblilities
john_carlos
11-26-04, 04:45 PM Wandering around a huge dungeon, under Waterdeep, lost, carrying more treasue (gems) than we thought exsisted, 15 min after entering because some insane wild-haired magic user teleported us into some secret treasure room. He seemed nice, even said he would show us the location of a huge treasure. Of course before we thought to ask why, he chuckles and says, while casting, "just try to get back out with it" or something to that extent.
Damn, I miss that emerald that was as big as my head.

Now I just mostly wander around the north. Yeah, the Sharr is nice in the winter and Lantan has some cool things to look at (crazy gnomes), but nothing beats hunting Orcs (and other things) in the Spine of the World in the spring.
In short, it feels like home.

Of course if Planescape was to come back...
Mystrasdance
11-26-04, 08:18 PM My 1st setting was dragon lance because i have this big thing about Gods and them being more directly involved in their worshipers lives...but i'm also an elf lover and lord the elves of Dragonlance just run away and cry all the time...or get raped i was SO ovr that...i read the moonshae trilogy as my 1st experience and and love the whole Earthmother/Bane deal...then i got around to the elves here and have never looked back..Elaine cunningham especially makes elves..fair or dark so real to me i didnt like the fact that the elves Reatreated...since every mythos always has the elves running away BUT recent novels have led me to believe that they've learned from their mistakes and will be coming back YEA!!!....i know alot of threads/people hate that so much material has been done on elven kind...but i dont read/play this stuff to be a human i can be a non magic having(but at least we have toilet paper and toothpaste lol) human all the time. I just love the FR elves....Revery...long lives...elegance...natural affinity for magic....and most of all High magic,bladsingers and Spellsong this to me just makes elves so much more like a "real" race than the typical keebler elf. Dont get me wrong i enjoy some of the other races antics too but the lves for me in forgotten realms Always wins hands down!!!...now if the humans and elves...whichever color or alignment get together seriously(ie Myth Drannor type stuff) talk about unstoppable...have your wisdome of the ages(elves) and ur constant breading(not always a good thing but good when ur fighting the armies of darkness no?) and inovation(again not always a good thang). Also i have to say what i like about the epic god battles that can and do happen sometimes u REALLY get sick of reading bout that 1st-5th level character that grows in power its nice but shoot its also nice to have books that let us see grand magical diplays(ie Elminster in Myth Drannor or the new one Forsaken house) i have a HUGE appreciation for Mythals and get insane when something new comes out with them!!! Anyway thats my piece lol
BrianCritchley
11-26-04, 11:57 PM I got into FR from baulder's gate and FR has always struck me as a richly detailed setting, the kinda thing I like.

ed greenwood being canadian is certinly nifty too!
Alisttair
11-30-04, 09:24 PM I must add that I love it for Netheril :)
Amryll
12-01-04, 05:01 AM it was the first i played in, and after 6 years of it it does indeed feel like home,infact i can find my way around on a reams map faster than one of the real world. some one will metoin some place and ill be like isnt that south of so and so or something of that sort
lestat2150
12-01-04, 07:29 AM No doubt, the first thing to draw me in like a sheep was the baldurs gate series for the PC. It had a richness to it and the music was outstanding. From there I got into the campaign setting for 3.0 and it continued from there. I think the reason FR is better than dragonlance is because of the magical subtlety of everything in the world. and lets not forget to mention the drow...the coolest elven race in any setting in my opinion.
Gray Richardson
12-01-04, 01:37 PM I love the Realms because of articles like this:

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/wn/20041201a

There is no other fantasy world that is so detailed and has so much lore to enjoy and help support a DM in his game.

You don't even have to run a realms game to enjoy all the supplements, books and info on the web about the Realms. Some of the most creative people in the world are writing Realms material and it is a joy to constantly discover new things about the Realms from the pens and keyboards of these great writers and game designers.
The_Declaration
12-01-04, 02:14 PM I like the fact that it's a classical fantasy world, so it's quite easy to visualize and understand for the players. Another consequence is that it is - I think - quite easy to come up with campaign ideas, plots and NPCs.
Second thing is that it's huge and there are many different flavours existing, depending on the area you're playing in. That's a setting that allows anything, there is basically no constraint, you can create whatever you want.
Last but not least: it's the most detailed setting on the market. DM and players can deepen their knowledge about any topic about the Realms by simply picking the good source.
PlaDeDump
12-03-04, 08:01 AM For me, I got into the Forgotten Realms playing Neverwinter Nights. It's a good introduction to the campaign setting. In fact, playing NWN got me back into D&D. I had stopped playing years ago, but now I'm back into it and using the FRCS as my setting. I think that it's all the official WOTC literature and novels (Salvatore) that make the setting so detailed and satisfying.
Ramius_Mordale
12-03-04, 10:28 AM Well I started playing D&D with Greyhawk and I always (from my point of view) thought that setting to be extremely dry and plotted out. You couldn't shape anything you really didn't even have your own destiny. It was a "by the book" type of world. You either have a whole bunch of detail that you can't do anything or you had so little detail you couldn't even think of a reason to do anything.

But then after my very first campaign went to the river side, we saw the new FRCS for 3.0 and said, "Ooo and Ahh!" So I bought it for us to use. Mind you I had just gotten into the game of D&D, but I was like this setting looks badass, when I saw some old guy with a pipe on the front. Back then I didn't even know what epic meant. I was like epic, but I didn't know you could go past 20th? :thinks:

But then I continued on reading, and I read some more. I saw drow for the first time and said, "Hmm, I want to play that race." People just looked at me like I was crazy. A friend said, "You just want to play a Drizzt rip off." I replied, "Drizzt who?" Said friend nearly fainted. I had even said I wanted this character to have two scimitars and fight two-weapon style is the reason why he said I was ripping it off, but honestly at that time I hadn't even gotten to the point in the book that talked about him. And when I saw the elves I was like Sweet! because they have blue skin, gold skin, bronze and the like. I was also drooling seeing yet another gnome race (which by the way I love playing gnomes just never get the chance to anymore) and was like man this setting rocks. And this was before I even got to the history part or anything about the regions.

I think I fell in love with every region of Faerun before I even got done. It was so detailed and fleshed out but yet left so much room to adventure and become someone. And the epic characters weren't total stiffs that they didn't control everything which I liked. Sure they have great power but they weren't like insanely over powering to the point of being tyrants. And the gods and goddesses just made me have tears of joy because I am a huge fan of mythology and the myths that accompany them. (Yes I watched the adventures of Hercules when it used to be on, for which I will never live down). First character I ever made in the FR world was a gnome, but I didn't like playing him much because he had pistols but I pretty much got owned by undead in this mansion and lets just say it wasn't a fun experience completely. So I handed that char over for my DM to use and made a new character a generalist wizard. And this wizard name was none only than the famous mage, Ramius Mordale. :mage:

He got all the way to 11 th level and got killed 3 times right now, all by his party (but now since most of the bad apples are out of the group he hasn't been killed recently). All straight wizard mind you. He had a moon elf lover named Alustria (yes I know I made her name because I like that name for some reason) that taught him at the Guild of Waterdeep. And he got down to Ireabour(sp?) and well that's just the start of his story, but he has come a long way and now fights with his companions and has an evil clone of himself running around, been fighting a necromancer that if he wasn't evil probably him and ramius would be friends if they hadn't met on bad circumstances, and well has made some cool friends along the way, and still his story is far from over. But yeah, that's how I got into FR and that's why I love it.

Someday, maybe just maybe, I'll be good enough at writing and known and maybe just maybe, they'll ask me to write for them. And it would be an honor to do so, but until that day happens Ramius and all the other heros I have in the setting will keep trudging forward into the great unknown seeking adventure and splender.

LOL, maybe I should learn to say less, but yeah I think it's pretty obvious I like the setting. :D :tiphat:
OleOneEye
12-04-04, 09:10 AM Pools of Radiance was the first Dungeons and Dragons video game. Simply put, it was amazing for its time.
Neofish
12-04-04, 06:31 PM I don't like Forgotton Realms, I like Eberron.!!!

Although, the first campaign setting I ever used was forgotton realms.
I not saying it's a bad setting, it just isn't Eberron.

(Red Wizards rock.! But House Cannith is Better, Go wand adept.!)
Bedford
12-04-04, 07:16 PM I like its similarity to the real world, and Ed Greenwood is always a fave of mine at conventions.
Fenalian
12-14-04, 08:58 PM I liked it for all the detailed out of the way places it had, from deserts to glaciers. It has helped to spawn so many interesting ideas. I do not have any 3E FR products, but from I hear, they do not compare to the 2E stuff.

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Ardashir 11-24-04, 10:29 AM	Like it says above -- what first drew you to the Realms? What makes you stay? For me, the first thing that drew me was the richness of the setting, and the way one was made to care about the place. The people seem almost like folks one knows (I don't think Ed Greenwood could create a boring character) and they all come across as having lives beyond the campaign or adventure. And then there's the epic span that doesn't overshadow the characters; I really can believe that there's room for a bunch of beginning PCs as well as folks like Elminster, the Seven Sisters, and the Red Wizards. Even if Elminster seems to spend a lot of his time raiding Ed's fridge and otherwise driving the poor man up the wall... >:) And I'm staying because they manage to keep it fresh. I don't love every single change over the years, but then, one doesn't need to use everything (Lolth is AWOL? Bye-bye Drow. Bet old Gromph is kicking some butt in Menzobarranzan...). Really just a very /real/ world to me, with very real folks living in it.
maynardjkeenan 11-24-04, 12:23 PM	When I was a youngin... I bought the grey box campaignsetting.. I was young and stupid, thinking it had the rules in it. It didn't. :)
GothicDan 11-24-04, 12:31 PM	I happened to just pick up the campaign setting for the heck of it. For the first year or so of playing, I just got the three core books of 2E, and I sort of then grabbed whatever looked interesting on the shelves. the 2E FRCS had a cool cover and cool flavor text on the back, so I picked that one. :) The thing that really keeps me in the Realms? It's my outlet for high/Epic level stuff and for my disgusting bias towards Wizards. It's the high magic setting for a reason! And it's true that the Realms seems the most like a realistic setting. My first and true love is Planescape, but that's obviously for different reasons than I like the Realms. My second is Dragonlance, because it has that Epic good vs. evil feel to it, with very distinctive, individualistic organizations (Towers of High Sorcery, Knights of Solamnia, etc.). I sort of like it for the opposite reason than I like the Realms. But Forgotten Realms is still very nice, of course.
Kuje31 11-24-04, 01:12 PM	The background, the lore, the npc's, the novels (well most of them), the history, everything basically. :)
Draco Strang 11-24-04, 02:19 PM	sigh I'll admit it.....Drizzt drew me to the Forgotten Realms. A friend of mine read the Dark Elf trilogy, and then i borrowed it, and that lead to the Crystal Shard books, and from there, a full blown addiction to Elminster and the rest. I started playing DnD in '96, and was playing Greyhawk. Then, soon after, dove into FR. God Bless FR....and all those dual-wielding scimitar chaotic good dark elf rangers. (note sarcasm) I really do dig the Realms though.
Lawless 11-25-04, 08:25 AM	Wow tough call. My best friend got me into D&D many, many, moons ago, (trying not to date myself). First playing a homebrewed world then Dark Sun and Planescape. Wanting to read about those worlds, which at the time I could find a novel on either one I stumbled across Icewind Dale by accident. From there I branched out read other books started thumbing through source books etc. until I found myself hooked. I don't love everything about FR but I Ed seems to have thought of darn near everything about creating the world. FR has a ton of history and detail and yet leaves nearly just enough open for you to go crazy with create something new. FR isn't stacked necessarily against you like Dark Sun, and by default of being a god riddled whole world it does not have the abstract limitations of Planescape (which comes in a very close 2nd). I'm not a big fan of perpetual Epic action, but FR has it when you want it and it also has the more mundane mortal stuff to.
Alisttair 11-25-04, 06:32 PM	It started with the Eye of the Beholder game for SNES. This drew me to checking out the ads for FR in the inside of the covers of the 2E PH and DMG. From there I went and read The Legacy, which I absolutely loved despite not having read all the prior novels. Then I went on to buy the FRCS 2E. It was great fun to play with my peeps in there and all the stuff about it, all the minute details about everything keeps me there.
Scererar 11-25-04, 07:57 PM	for me, it was reading spellfire, my first fr novel
Cole Deschain 11-25-04, 09:47 PM	Sheer laziness. I was racking my brain trying to come up with details for a "mongol invasion" of a european-style setting... and presto! There was the Horde boxed set, nicely back up by at least one fairly good novel. Yeeee-haw. (For the record, the party was to side with the Tuigan... heh heh heh. Take that, Azoun!)
Forsaken_Rocker 11-26-04, 03:25 PM	this was done no more than a month ago... I like it becaue, for one i love storytelling, and for two because its just so damn big, with infinate possiblilities
john_carlos 11-26-04, 04:45 PM	Wandering around a huge dungeon, under Waterdeep, lost, carrying more treasue (gems) than we thought exsisted, 15 min after entering because some insane wild-haired magic user teleported us into some secret treasure room. He seemed nice, even said he would show us the location of a huge treasure. Of course before we thought to ask why, he chuckles and says, while casting, "just try to get back out with it" or something to that extent. Damn, I miss that emerald that was as big as my head. Now I just mostly wander around the north. Yeah, the Sharr is nice in the winter and Lantan has some cool things to look at (crazy gnomes), but nothing beats hunting Orcs (and other things) in the Spine of the World in the spring. In short, it feels like home. Of course if Planescape was to come back...
Mystrasdance 11-26-04, 08:18 PM	My 1st setting was dragon lance because i have this big thing about Gods and them being more directly involved in their worshipers lives...but i'm also an elf lover and lord the elves of Dragonlance just run away and cry all the time...or get raped i was SO ovr that...i read the moonshae trilogy as my 1st experience and and love the whole Earthmother/Bane deal...then i got around to the elves here and have never looked back..Elaine cunningham especially makes elves..fair or dark so real to me i didnt like the fact that the elves Reatreated...since every mythos always has the elves running away BUT recent novels have led me to believe that they've learned from their mistakes and will be coming back YEA!!!....i know alot of threads/people hate that so much material has been done on elven kind...but i dont read/play this stuff to be a human i can be a non magic having(but at least we have toilet paper and toothpaste lol) human all the time. I just love the FR elves....Revery...long lives...elegance...natural affinity for magic....and most of all High magic,bladsingers and Spellsong this to me just makes elves so much more like a "real" race than the typical keebler elf. Dont get me wrong i enjoy some of the other races antics too but the lves for me in forgotten realms Always wins hands down!!!...now if the humans and elves...whichever color or alignment get together seriously(ie Myth Drannor type stuff) talk about unstoppable...have your wisdome of the ages(elves) and ur constant breading(not always a good thing but good when ur fighting the armies of darkness no?) and inovation(again not always a good thang). Also i have to say what i like about the epic god battles that can and do happen sometimes u REALLY get sick of reading bout that 1st-5th level character that grows in power its nice but shoot its also nice to have books that let us see grand magical diplays(ie Elminster in Myth Drannor or the new one Forsaken house) i have a HUGE appreciation for Mythals and get insane when something new comes out with them!!! Anyway thats my piece lol
BrianCritchley 11-26-04, 11:57 PM	I got into FR from baulder's gate and FR has always struck me as a richly detailed setting, the kinda thing I like. ed greenwood being canadian is certinly nifty too!
Alisttair 11-30-04, 09:24 PM	I must add that I love it for Netheril :)
Amryll 12-01-04, 05:01 AM	it was the first i played in, and after 6 years of it it does indeed feel like home,infact i can find my way around on a reams map faster than one of the real world. some one will metoin some place and ill be like isnt that south of so and so or something of that sort
lestat2150 12-01-04, 07:29 AM	No doubt, the first thing to draw me in like a sheep was the baldurs gate series for the PC. It had a richness to it and the music was outstanding. From there I got into the campaign setting for 3.0 and it continued from there. I think the reason FR is better than dragonlance is because of the magical subtlety of everything in the world. and lets not forget to mention the drow...the coolest elven race in any setting in my opinion.
Gray Richardson 12-01-04, 01:37 PM	I love the Realms because of articles like this: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/wn/20041201a There is no other fantasy world that is so detailed and has so much lore to enjoy and help support a DM in his game. You don't even have to run a realms game to enjoy all the supplements, books and info on the web about the Realms. Some of the most creative people in the world are writing Realms material and it is a joy to constantly discover new things about the Realms from the pens and keyboards of these great writers and game designers.
The_Declaration 12-01-04, 02:14 PM	I like the fact that it's a classical fantasy world, so it's quite easy to visualize and understand for the players. Another consequence is that it is - I think - quite easy to come up with campaign ideas, plots and NPCs. Second thing is that it's huge and there are many different flavours existing, depending on the area you're playing in. That's a setting that allows anything, there is basically no constraint, you can create whatever you want. Last but not least: it's the most detailed setting on the market. DM and players can deepen their knowledge about any topic about the Realms by simply picking the good source.
PlaDeDump 12-03-04, 08:01 AM	For me, I got into the Forgotten Realms playing Neverwinter Nights. It's a good introduction to the campaign setting. In fact, playing NWN got me back into D&D. I had stopped playing years ago, but now I'm back into it and using the FRCS as my setting. I think that it's all the official WOTC literature and novels (Salvatore) that make the setting so detailed and satisfying.
Ramius_Mordale 12-03-04, 10:28 AM	Well I started playing D&D with Greyhawk and I always (from my point of view) thought that setting to be extremely dry and plotted out. You couldn't shape anything you really didn't even have your own destiny. It was a "by the book" type of world. You either have a whole bunch of detail that you can't do anything or you had so little detail you couldn't even think of a reason to do anything. But then after my very first campaign went to the river side, we saw the new FRCS for 3.0 and said, "Ooo and Ahh!" So I bought it for us to use. Mind you I had just gotten into the game of D&D, but I was like this setting looks badass, when I saw some old guy with a pipe on the front. Back then I didn't even know what epic meant. I was like epic, but I didn't know you could go past 20th? :thinks: But then I continued on reading, and I read some more. I saw drow for the first time and said, "Hmm, I want to play that race." People just looked at me like I was crazy. A friend said, "You just want to play a Drizzt rip off." I replied, "Drizzt who?" Said friend nearly fainted. I had even said I wanted this character to have two scimitars and fight two-weapon style is the reason why he said I was ripping it off, but honestly at that time I hadn't even gotten to the point in the book that talked about him. And when I saw the elves I was like Sweet! because they have blue skin, gold skin, bronze and the like. I was also drooling seeing yet another gnome race (which by the way I love playing gnomes just never get the chance to anymore) and was like man this setting rocks. And this was before I even got to the history part or anything about the regions. I think I fell in love with every region of Faerun before I even got done. It was so detailed and fleshed out but yet left so much room to adventure and become someone. And the epic characters weren't total stiffs that they didn't control everything which I liked. Sure they have great power but they weren't like insanely over powering to the point of being tyrants. And the gods and goddesses just made me have tears of joy because I am a huge fan of mythology and the myths that accompany them. (Yes I watched the adventures of Hercules when it used to be on, for which I will never live down). First character I ever made in the FR world was a gnome, but I didn't like playing him much because he had pistols but I pretty much got owned by undead in this mansion and lets just say it wasn't a fun experience completely. So I handed that char over for my DM to use and made a new character a generalist wizard. And this wizard name was none only than the famous mage, Ramius Mordale. :mage: He got all the way to 11 th level and got killed 3 times right now, all by his party (but now since most of the bad apples are out of the group he hasn't been killed recently). All straight wizard mind you. He had a moon elf lover named Alustria (yes I know I made her name because I like that name for some reason) that taught him at the Guild of Waterdeep. And he got down to Ireabour(sp?) and well that's just the start of his story, but he has come a long way and now fights with his companions and has an evil clone of himself running around, been fighting a necromancer that if he wasn't evil probably him and ramius would be friends if they hadn't met on bad circumstances, and well has made some cool friends along the way, and still his story is far from over. But yeah, that's how I got into FR and that's why I love it. Someday, maybe just maybe, I'll be good enough at writing and known and maybe just maybe, they'll ask me to write for them. And it would be an honor to do so, but until that day happens Ramius and all the other heros I have in the setting will keep trudging forward into the great unknown seeking adventure and splender. LOL, maybe I should learn to say less, but yeah I think it's pretty obvious I like the setting. :D :tiphat:
OleOneEye 12-04-04, 09:10 AM	Pools of Radiance was the first Dungeons and Dragons video game. Simply put, it was amazing for its time.
Neofish 12-04-04, 06:31 PM	I don't like Forgotton Realms, I like Eberron.!!! Although, the first campaign setting I ever used was forgotton realms. I not saying it's a bad setting, it just isn't Eberron. (Red Wizards rock.! But House Cannith is Better, Go wand adept.!)
Bedford 12-04-04, 07:16 PM	I like its similarity to the real world, and Ed Greenwood is always a fave of mine at conventions.
Fenalian 12-14-04, 08:58 PM	I liked it for all the detailed out of the way places it had, from deserts to glaciers. It has helped to spawn so many interesting ideas. I do not have any 3E FR products, but from I hear, they do not compare to the 2E stuff.