I start with my objections to Forgotten Realms, because I think they are the root of the module's considerable problems. I'm here because I've been reading the 5th edition's introductory module Lost Mines of Phandelver. I'm not here to talk about Forgotten Realms, except as a symptom, it will always be terrible. Most offensively, most objectionably, Forgotten Realms is a dense, full, world - so steeped in cliched lore and laid out so extensively in dull gazetteers that there is no room for a GM's creativity without excising some of the existing setting and map. Forgotten Realms embraces a pedantic faux-medievalism, but then uses a contemporary positivist understanding to explain magic that allows for cutesy magical technology to gloss over the inconvenient aspects of the pre-modern. It fills the land with huge civilized bastions of good/order like Waterdeep and exhaustively defines their systems of governance, but allows these nations to be plagued by trifling enemies like goblin tribes. It plunders everything cliched and overused from Tolkien but abandons all the strange sadness and the mythological references.
Forgotten Realms was the worst thing to happen to D&D, a terrible setting that reeks of bathos and takes itself far too seriously.
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