Corpsetaker
First Post
The catch with the Points of Light setting is that it started as not having lore, but every future product added lore. There's a surprising amount of backstory to the world now, it's just hidden in adventures, magazine articles, and race entries. We probably know more about the Points of Light setting than Greyhawk fans knew about that setting prior to 1988.
The PoL setting made sense as a starting point, but setting adventures and accessories in that setting defeated the purpose of a blank slate that Dungeon Masters could make their own.
Not really because the classics that they are releasing would fit into PoL much better than the Realms and still be a bit of a "blank slate". PoL is no where near as detailed as the Realms. Also, the Realms has ties to one world outside of it's sphere that is known and that is a version of our real world. There has never ever been mention of the other worlds except for that Dragon mag article that talked about Elminster knowing Mordenkainen and Dalamar. No FR products ran away with that so it was never official cannon.
Wizards is really ignoring most of the Realms and using it as it's PoL setting and trying to shoe horn stuff into the setting that doesn't make sense when you know the Realms history.