Talk:Forgotten Realms

Again, we are NOT Wikipedia, piling all those novels into the Forgotten Realms article is alright at Wikipedia, because alot of them are not notable enough to have their own articles, here we can easily have a page for each book, as well as a seperate list/category to contain them (see Category:Novels and Category:Source books) same applies to CRPGs (Category:Computer games). Also, alot of WP templates have been left on the page.. Zerak-Tul 23:29, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Catagory's are good to build lists, they don't work too well in explaining. I agree I cut & pasted a lot. But given Wikipedia & Forgotten Realms Wiki are both Wiki, I thought it made sense to copy the large amount of work that had been done and then make it more specific for us Hurtzbad 10:43, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * This still needs so much work... Zerak-Tul 10:39, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Input from Candlekeep
The following is contributed by Faraer in this post at the Candlekeep forums:

"Here's some help with this month's Article for Improvement:

The Realms is not primarily 'a campaign setting for Advanced Dungeon & Dragons': it's a secondary world in its own right that happens to have been published in conjunction with AD&D, also with 3E D&D and as systemless fiction. It wasn't originally created as a private gaming world but for short stories.

Faer�n isn't a supercontinent.

Misleading to say Kara-Tur et al. have been discontinued: they simply don't currently have their own product line.

Why mention 'many real world influences and similarities' but not the differences? Even then, it's misleading to focus on the similarities, especially as many of the perhaps apparent ones are influences from fiction, not history.

Kara-Tur: The Eastern Realms is a boxed set, not a sourcebook (one word).

It's tendentious to call the AD&D planar structure by the Planescape neologism of 'Great Wheel' which was never (or very rarely) used in Realms sources. It's imprecise to talk about editions of the Realms.

The campaign settings are still linked: the gates etc. connecting them are still part of the current lore.

There have only been three editions of AD&D (revised editions aren't counted when numbering RPG editions), if you count (as Wizards do) the current game as part of the AD&D line of descent.

The 1993 box has 'XX Monstrous Compendium sheets', not 'a Monster Compendium'.

The text 'Template:Col-begin Template:Col-2' and 'Template:Col-2' displays on my machine.

The listing of novels (why all of Bob's?) is arbitrary and misleading."

Fw190a8 21:52, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

The name
I'd like to see some info about the name and it's origins here. I remember reading somewhere that it comes from the fact that Toril once had links to our Earth but they have been broken and the lands have since been forgotten. I don't know whether this is true and would like some confirmation and a source, if possible. If all else fails, we can always ask Ed. :) --TOR 04:12, 5 February 2007 (UTC)