Rune
Once A Fool
I remember quite a few of my FLGS die-hards losing their minds about the Time of Troubles, some even stepping away from the Realms(and two even turning to Shadowrun). The deaths of Bane, Bhaal and Myrkul hit them like losing a child.
Well, if you want to talk about the Realms, the setting really lost something as soon as it moved out of Dragon Magazine. But the original boxed set and supplements were okay, too. Then they started basing the setting canon on novels, each more over-the-top than the last.