Alediran wrote:
FR, no setting has the complexity of the Realms. Like one of the Board members on WotC's FR board said: If you scratch the surface of a setting, you see your leg. If you scratch the surface of FR you find more, if you scratch it, you find more, there is no limit of scratching you can do. And as member of the Elven Netbook proyect I can only agree with him, since the begining of the proyect I've learned lots of things about the elves of Faerun I had no idea, even being the elf fan I'm.
You are completely right. However, this is exactly the reason why I don't like FR much. The Realms are so detailed that I have to study it, taking much more of my time, and spoiling me the fun of creating my own stuff. Also, as so much is described there are more things I dislike than any setting (a statistically result). However, I admit that this is all a question of taste. Your values are as good as mine, despite being the opposite.