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Entromancer
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USA
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 Posted - 20 Feb 2013 : 00:43:52
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| My passion lies with various stories set in the Realms: Salvatore's Paths of Darkness and Transitions series, Byers' Year of Rogue Dragons/Haunted Lands/Brotherhood of the Griffon, and Kemp's Cale Trilogy/Twilight War Trilogy. I believe that my passion, in terms of a particular world (flavor, history and atmosphere), lies with Eberron. |
"...the will is everything. The will to act."--Ra's Al Ghul
"Suffering builds character."--Talia Al Ghul |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31701 Posts |
Posted - 20 Feb 2013 : 01:14:27
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Originally posted by daarkknight
Then look at the other fellow Realms fans. So many of them with 1,000, 5,000, even nearing 10,000 posts. You can't post that much about something if you don't love it.
I have no idea what you're talking about.  |
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Jeremy Grenemyer
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 20 Feb 2013 : 03:00:00
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Originally posted by The Sage
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Originally posted by daarkknight
Then look at the other fellow Realms fans. So many of them with 1,000, 5,000, even nearing 10,000 posts. You can't post that much about something if you don't love it.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
...says the guy who just happened to break the 30K post mark.   
Congrats, by the way. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 20 Feb 2013 : 04:55:43
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Originally posted by Jeremy Grenemyer
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Originally posted by The Sage
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Originally posted by daarkknight
Then look at the other fellow Realms fans. So many of them with 1,000, 5,000, even nearing 10,000 posts. You can't post that much about something if you don't love it.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
...says the guy who just happened to break the 30K post mark.
Congrats, by the way.
30k posts means he gets to change his avatar for free!
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 20 Feb 2013 : 20:38:05
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"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31701 Posts |
Posted - 21 Feb 2013 : 00:39:22
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Originally posted by Markustay
LOL - I already got my custom Avatar... I just have to think of an acceptable monicker (soon....)
I'm sure many scribes have thought of acceptable monikers for my own profile over the years. |
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JohnLynch
Learned Scribe
Australia
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Posted - 29 Mar 2013 : 01:13:07
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Forgotten Realms isn't my favourite setting. That honour belongs to ArmageddonMUD. Why is that my favourite setting? Because it has a long and rich history and it's a world where anything you try to do can happen. It's a world unlike any other, where you can play a terrible person but be considered a hero.
I've just finished converting it to D&D Next. THAT is my favourite setting and one that I'm the most passionate about. But it's also one where if I run a campaign, I would run it as a structured story with a beginning, middle and end. What the PCs did at each point would be up to them. But it would follow a particular arc.
I also like the Realms because it's so heavily detailed. Under every rock there's a nugget of gold. And where once I thought this lore limited the adventures I could run, I've since discovered they're nothing but a constant source of inspiration, giving me just enough to plan countless adventures in the Realms. That level of detail is what makes me love the Realms so much. And it allows me to run a very different style of campaign. Where up to now I've only run or played in campaigns with a structured campaign arc, the Forgotten Realms lets me play in a sandbox. I can show my players a map of the Realms and say "you are starting here. Tell me what you do" and they can then go off and explore the Realms at large. They can say "we go there" and I know I'll have enough information to create adventures for them as they journey to that location and then adventures for them once they're in that location.
Other campaign worlds are conducive to structured campaign arcs. And you can certainly do the same thing in the Forgotten Realms. But thanks to the style of detail (not necessarily the level, although that certainly helps) you can also run sandbox campaigns unlike anything else I've ever experienced.
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Originally posted by The Arcanamach
My passion remains with the Realms, but with MY version of it rather than what the company chooses to do with it. I refused to play 4e and campaign without the Spellplague. If I ever add the Spellplague it will not have such a dramatic effect on the campaign.
This is what I love so much about the Realms. My version is different from Arcanamach's version. And yet we've both read the same books and taken away from those books different things. There is so much potential that what inspires one person, can be completely different to what inspires another person.
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I feel a need to clarify here. Which version of the realms? I specifically love the pre-4e realms.
I love the pre-Time of Troubles Realms. That's the version I've fallen in love with. I'm still using 2nd ed books, but I'm looking it through the lens of the AD&D 1st ed Realms. The Time of Troubles doesn't interest me, so I've said "there will be no Time of Troubles." Whenever an event in a 2nd ed (or 3.5e book) has a direct connection to the Time of Troubles I'll look at what happened and work out what might have happened had the ToT never occurred. I liked Abeir and what it brings to the world, so I've said "Abeir exists as a parallel world, split apart from Toril during the first (and only) Godswar where the Primordials fought the Gods for supremacy over the material planes." That means Dragonborn exist in my version of the Forgotten Realms. However they don't exist in Toril. At least. Not yet. Running adventures where Abeir is explored and how it's affect on Toril will shape my version of the Forgotten Realms whenever I get to run adventures set in that time period. So that feeds into what I was saying earlier. My version of the Realms will be different to everyone else's version.
There's another thing I love about the Realms. I'm starting my Realms campaign in 1357 DR. I have books and books telling me what could happen for years to come. I can use (or discard) those ideas as I see fit. |
DM of the Realms: A blog for my Forgotten Realms adventures. |
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