I feel even Greyhawk (my favorite) has too many versions and starting dates.
I think the old Harn approach (not sure if it’s changed), of a single year for all setting and adventure products, is better. You can give ideas for future timelines, but leave room for each campaign’s events to lead to different outcomes.
FR tangentially exists in my Greyhawk campaigns, as a place a PC whose player wanted to take an indefinite pause went to, and a place some NPCs and monsters come from, and sages can tell you a little about.
On the advice of my player who knows/loves FR best, I’m sticking to our current year (589 CY) = the current year in the Gray Box AD&D 1e original setting (1356 DR). I thought about using the BG3 year, which I believe it might be the Year of Three Ships Sailing, AKA 1492 - yeah, I get it, FR authors - but my player knows best and I have no problem using out-of-print materials, of course.
I feel bad for FR fans that there’s overwhelming volume and changes like gods and continents changing, and less room to go rogue without contradicting “canon”. But good for them that there’s so much, including perhaps the best D&D wiki, for them. It pays to be the boss setting, perhaps.
I think the old Harn approach (not sure if it’s changed), of a single year for all setting and adventure products, is better. You can give ideas for future timelines, but leave room for each campaign’s events to lead to different outcomes.
FR tangentially exists in my Greyhawk campaigns, as a place a PC whose player wanted to take an indefinite pause went to, and a place some NPCs and monsters come from, and sages can tell you a little about.
On the advice of my player who knows/loves FR best, I’m sticking to our current year (589 CY) = the current year in the Gray Box AD&D 1e original setting (1356 DR). I thought about using the BG3 year, which I believe it might be the Year of Three Ships Sailing, AKA 1492 - yeah, I get it, FR authors - but my player knows best and I have no problem using out-of-print materials, of course.
I feel bad for FR fans that there’s overwhelming volume and changes like gods and continents changing, and less room to go rogue without contradicting “canon”. But good for them that there’s so much, including perhaps the best D&D wiki, for them. It pays to be the boss setting, perhaps.
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