Spelljammer The Forgotten Realms eats Spelljammer before it even finishes digesting Radiant Citadel!

[Demetrios1453]

Actually, the title of this thread has aged like milk now that Radiant Citadel has come out, and the Realms has not in any way "eaten" it. There are suggestions on where to place the adventures in the Realms (as well as other settings), but beyond that, the two have no connections other than being in the same multiverse...

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Nothing that actually happens in the book requires it to be on Faerun.

The adventures draw heavily on FR locations. The Anuroch and the Bedine, Tashluta and Baldur's Gate are all in there. "Moving the Library" will leave you with a whole lot of work to do. The simple fact that Candlekeep is on the coast and a couple of days journey from a major city matters for some of the adventures. It's no easier to move to a different setting than Rime of the Frostmaiden or Storm Kings Thunder.

 

[DEFCON 1]

Fizban's is just the latest in a long line of books that changes the facets of 'canon' in the games. It has changed over and over across these past 40 years, and in 20 years time, that concept of 'canon' will be changed again as well.

So why anyone actually worries about what is * currently * "canon" is beyond me. Right now there is just ONE "platonic ideal" of Demogorgon, and anytime any of us deal with him in just an echo? Well, that wasn't how it used to be, and come 6E when the new wave of designers change everything up to make the new game different, it probably won't be that way anymore either.

If people would just stop thinking about D&D as what is printed "right now" as being the only thing "real", you'd all probably be a lot happier. "I don't like how they have made Spelljammer in the new book." Well, then don't use it. Use your old Spelljammer material. It is just as useful and true than anything printed today, because pretty soon the stuff printed today will be seen as just as "unofficial" as 2E Spelljammer is to so many of you all apparently right now.

There is no universal D&D truth. Because the truth always changes. All we have is what happens at our table. Treat that as true and go hang everything else.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

This is a TTRPG, and in our game we are totally free for craziest ideas, for example PCs from Kamikawa: Neon Dinasty travel to a post-apocalyptic world mixture of "Gamma World" and "Mutant: Year Zero" with pretender monsters (transformers), and dreadnoks (subgroup within Cobra, G.I.Joe archenemy).

We should remember Hasbro loves to sell products based in licences, and this may mean more "crossovers" within D&D multiverse, but not yet based in settings with modern technology or firearms.

 

[jasper]

What happens in DMs world is canon in that world. So Whether you called them Aspects, Powers, Gawds, Etc does not matter. Ask your DM. And Tiamat is dead until I run the new adventure being release next year by Wotc "Timat's Terrible Twos" How did the one become the two?

 

[Parmandur]

The adventures draw heavily on FR locations. The Anuroch and the Bedine, Tashluta and Baldur's Gate are all in there. "Moving the Library" will leave you with a whole lot of work to do. The simple fact that Candlekeep is on the coast and a couple of days journey from a major city matters for some of the adventures. It's no easier to move to a different setting than Rime of the Frostmaiden or Storm Kings Thunder.

Because cities on coasts are uncommon...? And the book already does all of that work for the DM in Greyhawk, Eberron, and even Exandra, it's not like the book makes use of FR geography except in broad strokes. There are no keyed regional maps or encounters.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Because cities on coasts are uncommon...? And the book already does all of that work for the DM in Greyhawk, Eberron, and even Exandra, it's not like the book makes use of FR geography except in broad strokes. There are no keyed regional maps or encounters.

The book is full of FR locations. How specific does it have to be before you'll admit it's assumed to be in the Forgotten Realms?

 

[Parmandur]

The book is full of FR locations. How specific does it have to be before you'll admit it's assumed to be in the Forgotten Realms?

Which Adventure treats overland travel with anything other than a handwoven? Abd is Yawning Portal a Greyhawk book, because it uses Hreyhawk placenames...?

 

[Micah Sweet]

Which Adventure treats overland travel with anything other than a handwoven? Abd is Yawning Portal a Greyhawk book, because it uses Hreyhawk placenames...?

Well, technically TftYP is also a FR book, because it's framing story is in the Realms...

 

[Parmandur]

Well, technically TftYP is also a FR book, because it's framing story is in the Realms...

About as much as Candlekeep, I suppose, which is to say: not much.