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This is all possible, because a DM could already reject elements of canon regardless of this WotC policy shift—but the Spellplague is still canon, since it’s discussed in 5e RPG supplements… …as is the Time of Troubles.

You're right—I may have read his statement too hastily. "For many years" appears more likely to apply to the first major clause of the sentence (about the team considering the novels etc. to be "wonderful expressions"), but not the second (about noncanonicity).

You just described every thread on Candlekeep.com in the last thirteen years. I find that to be a recurring problem with Crawford’s way of expressing himself. He’s precise in his choice of words, but also verbally frugal, to a fault. This can be admirable especially when crafting rules, which...

I was just rereading the Winninger quote that started this all, and something occured to me. In addition to the two new settings and the one revisited setting (all three of which he says might not happen), two classic setting products are coming. Everyone has interpreted this to mean that two...

Yes—I'm one of them. And I'm a member of the small minority who, in that recent survey posted here, answered "I follow the canon as much as possible." But I also don't get too upset when WotC plays around with FR canon—which, so far as I can tell, places me in a vanishingly small Venn diagram...

I enjoyed this one, though like you I didn't love it. I don't mind so much when an FR author diverges from the typical D&D tropes regarding strong villains, climactic battles, etc., or even subverts those expectations entirely—perhaps because the D&D I run is somewhat skewed away from combat...

Several years ago I purchased a couple of monster card PDFs from the DM's Guild, one for Hoard of the Dragon Queen and one for Princes of the Apocalypse. The NPCs for those campaigns were included. Nice little products. I think I bought them before Gale Force Nine started producing their monster...

I believe Mr. R. A. Salvatore likely has something to do with all this. The key sources for information about the Monastery of the Yellow Rose other than the original Bloodstone adventure trilogy are 2e's The Bloodstone Lands—to date, still the only D&D game supplement with Salvatore credited...

Elminster isn't even Ed's favorite Realms character. Greenwood's Twitter, March 2, 2021: "I've created around 20,000 named characters for the Realms, and they're all part of the tapestry. I try not to play favourites, but if you press me, I'll admit to like writing about Mirt, Storm, Filfaeril...

If this is true, I’m not completely surprised, because, as others have mentioned, while there is a lot more to Elminster than just his sexual escapades—and while there are a lot more in-canon sexual escapades in the Realms than just Elminster’s—nonetheless Elminster has come to represent the...

A couple of questions for the MTG players in the thread: Does anybody know at what point the art will be revealed for the card sleeves, playmats, deck boxes, and card binders that are based on the AFR set and manufactured by UltraPro? I've seen listings for these on various retail sites for more...

That’s because they’ve basically split this issue in two, and withheld most of the non-MTG content until the D&D Live event in mid-July, so as not to steal that event’s thunder. According to the “Next Issue” blurb, this issue will be updated and expanded after the event.

He’s thirty-six or so in this one. (Born 1335 DR.) Tazi is twenty-two or so (born 1349). I’m not saying that makes it unimpeachable—if it seems creepy if he’s forty, it probably also seems creepy if he’s thirty-six. Me, I don’t think a relationship between a thirty-six-year-old and a...

There's no denying that! But it seems to me that the quality improved toward the end of the 4e era, partly as a result of decreased quantity of output (so that, for the most part, only the better writers remained), and by the time they stopped the novel line entirely Forgotten Realms fiction was...

I was hoping the AFR set would be accompanied by some good FR fiction (no, that's not an oxymoron)—if only because that's in shorter supply these days than short adventures are. But really, this move is a no-brainer for WotC: short adventures are infinitely more likely to get MTG players hooked...

I hope they make it available in print at some point. Seems perfect for a DM's Guild print product.

That's why I actually sort of like where the Forgotten Realms has ended up (at least for now): there's a ton of canon, but it's almost all in the past, and it's mostly up to you whether it might have changed in the interim; and the timeline does still advance, but glacially, nonlinearly, and...

Homebrew is not a setting, it’s a million settings.

I recreationally listened to Mozart the night before last. Violin Concerto 5, Mutter on violin. On the sofa, eyes closed, no distractions. We should start a support group: RPG Fans Who Recreationally Listen to Mozart and Who Are Tired of Being Told That's Not a Thing. Needs a better acronym, though.

But does Ward know about Giantlands? Because it seems plausible that Ward cowrote Giantlands at some point, and the new "TSR" acquired the rights to publish that. (If Ward had sold those rights to a third party, that party could have resold the rights to the new "TSR.") I'm not sure whether...