Charlaquin
Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
Not really though. It created a separate setting with different lore, it didn’t change the lore of existing settings. It advanced the metaplot of the Forgotten Realms, and I don’t blame FR fans for not really liking the direction they took it in.But then there was 4e. It heralded TONS of lore changes to many of the basic assumptions in D&D lore from monsters to races, etc. That's a big part of why I avoided it.
Also, isn’t it kind of a double-standard to have gotten upset about the changes 4e made, but not allow 4e fans to be upset about the changes 5e is making?
Asmodeus is still a devil in the Forgotten Realms. It is only the Nentir Vale setting that has a god named Asmodeus, so no, it was not a retcon.Ok, it seems like in order to only include examples you want to acknowledge you are narrowly defining change in lore to mean retcon. So her'e s a question, was Asmodeus becoming a god a change in lore? Because before 4e, in every other edition... he was a devil, not a god.
Personally, even though I didn’t like the 5e Forgotten Realms take on the Raven Queen, I wasn’t bothered by it because I don’t really like FR in general, and it wasn’t changing Nentir Vale. That might not be the case anymore.