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    Eilistraee - Working the Dark Dancer into Out of the Abyss

    There's this passage, which paraphrases what Ed Greenwood said about her That said, of course, in your campaign you have complete freedom to do what you wish.
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    Eilistraee - Working the Dark Dancer into Out of the Abyss

    That sounds like the info from MToF. Keep in mind that the book omits a lot of info about Eilistraee (that has been created over multiple editions)--then again, it's Mordenkainen's PoV and his knowledge of how things are in Toril may not be that precise. For example, it's true that Eilistraee is...
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    Eilistraee - Working the Dark Dancer into Out of the Abyss

    It is, but they (especially the Menzoberranyr) are always described as such religious fanatics that someone worshipping Eilistraee in the open would always be shut down and target of major persecution (and it takes nothing to just stab a doomsayer). Like, there was an episode when a secret...
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    Eilistraee - Working the Dark Dancer into Out of the Abyss

    They wouldn't last long. Even only speaking Eilistraee's name in Menzo is grounds for being exiled or killed. The idea is cool--it *is* Lolth's fault--but it would need to be some secret, underground thing, more than a doomsayer (also because doomsaying is not very fitting for this goddess).
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    Eilistraee - Working the Dark Dancer into Out of the Abyss

    A very immediate, but also very fitting way, would be having Eilistraee and her followers help all who are endangered by Lolth's plan that unleashed the Demon Princes in the Underdark, and Demogorgon in Menzoberranzan itself. A first step could be organizing expeditions to grab people who are...
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    Which Faerun setting guide?

    3e FRCS + SCAG to see what's changed, and Elminster's Forgotten Realms for additional, edition-neutral lore. The 3e guide is closer to 5e than the 4e one is anyway.
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    Favorite Human Forgotten Realms Deity

    No, no longer at least. Lathander and Amaunator used to be aspects of the same deity until after the Second Sundering, when Amaunator took a life on his own, according to Sernett.
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    Favorite Human Forgotten Realms Deity

    MTOF, like other 5e books, refer to the current state of things. With Sharess not being mentioned in 5e, but Bast being in the SCAG, and with other deities having been separated again (Horuse and Re, for example), it's very likely that Zandilar is back, and Sharess is Bast again. Not that it...
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    Favorite Human Forgotten Realms Deity

    My favorite goddess lies outside the human pantheon, but within it, it's a toss up among Selune, Mystra, and Lliira. I feel that these 3 goddesses best capture the hopeful and magical spirit of the Realms in the human pantheon.
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    Favorite Human Forgotten Realms Deity

    She's back to Bast, though, since Zandilar's back.
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    First Impressions – Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica

    The narrative of D&D is a joke now, nothing in the current canon really makes sense. They can just pull out a random mac guffing and justify GH remaining basically the same even after a century. Or they won't even bother with that and just state that it hasn't changed.
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    First Impressions – Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica

    By not adding any significant change to GH? It's fiction, they decide whether a world changes or not.
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    First Impressions – Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica

    Because people didn't like the setting? I don't know Kingdoms of Kalamar, but it's pretty obvious that if you don't like a setting, no matter how detailed it is, you still won't like it. My puzzlement was more about aversion to details (something that I have seen quite a lot recently), which are...
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    First Impressions – Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica

    That's very similar to what I suggested in my previous post (publish a complete setting book, then also sell the overview or street level view sections of that book as separate pdf or print on demand books, to avoid extra production costs). This kind of presentation would erase the information...
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    First Impressions – Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica

    I understand that you were giving me an explanation, my point was that I still fail to understand aversion to detail because the problem doesn't seem to be with the details themselves (which, in the end, are options), but with the presentation. A different approach could very easily avoid the "I...
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