Forgotten Realms and ALL its derivatives have made extreme damage to the fantasy and rpg genre and I'm tired of pretending it DIDN'T
>>96591100Nobody would deny you, but don’t you think FR has suffered for it? Look at what’s happened to the setting since the 90s.
Don't hate Lebron for Inspiring a Generation of Imitators that fail at being The Goat.
>>96591100Elaborate.I haven't been part of the TTRPG scene for long enough to witness it happening, so I'd like to hear it from the horse's mouth.
>>96591100M'kay, YT-farmer.
>>96591100Why would you pretend to believe something you don't you coward?
>>96591100Exandria is worse by 100x
>>96591123It's the tacit default setting.That means that while every single adition is assumed to always had been a thing there, they never made official material to explain why or how. Most of the worst modules are set there, but since it's not officially there they had no editorial staff to make things consistent and logical. By far the worst issue is the bloat of character options, because now that thri-keen are a playable race with no canon context they have to always had been in Faerun, next to frankensteins and 20 types of elves and chronomancers that are somehow coexisting without any effect or society or context of any kind.
>>96591192Show me where in the Forgotten Realms the thri-keen are.
>>96591100Dragonlance, actually. But really you should be blaming Dungeons and Dragons in general.
>>96591173Exandria is Forgotten Realms: Seattle.
>>96591192>It's the tacit default setting.Depending on the edition. Though, its influence is sometimes still present, due to its long-standing history.
>>96591100Blame Hasbro. It's always been Hasbro's fault and always will be Hasbro's fault.Anything you don't like about tabletop gaming can be traced to them buying into another companies business and running it into the ground.
>>96591123kys namefag
>>96591319I just told you that there's no setting book explaining it. But they have to be there because 70% of the modules are there and players will use the options sold to them.>>96591345Evrything I said was exclusively about 5e
>>96591100Its a fine setting on its own, but Baldur's Gate (every time a game released) and the subsequent increases in attention are detrimental to it as that popularity finally made it rise to the default setting during 5e and so it had to stuffer the brut of every decision.But that's not FR's fault, if Greyhawk remained the default as it was between the start of the game and 3e or Nethyr Vale stuck around as default after 4e you would be having this exact same thread with those two in its place. And if a thread like this gets made again in a future where they jump settings then the same thing will happen again.
>>96591695Greyhawk is supposedly the current default setting.
>>96591489People bitch and complain about snowflakes, but current d&d is a game about being high fantasy protagonists, so a plane shifted giant bug person is perfectly fine as a high fantasy protagonist.
>>96591761yeah, it's completely normal. And at the same time it doesn't affect anything. It's all meaningless.
>>96591786I honestly don't understand what you're complaint is. Surely that's up to each individual table?
>>96591695FR felt like the default for all of 5e. The starter set's module used it and I saw it shilled all over the internet and even by patrons at my LFGS.
