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Is that really so unusual? Lastly a Resident Evil movie was on TV. I was not sure if I was up to date on that series and quickly looked it up and yes, I was indeed missing a movie inbetween the last I've seen and the one I was about to see. Fortunately the Wiki entry on the movie I missed was...

Absolutely. If it's not at least mentioned in passing as an easteregg that's disappointing. I didn't really read any 5e adventure in full.

Not necessarily. Earlier adventure series even had the canon ending of each adventure printed at the end so that a DM would be able to prepare for what to expect from the next installment of the series and where he'd most likely would need adjust and change based on the outcome of his particular...

But only because WotC decided that they no longer have those. In the past they used to have them. In fact until this thread I assumed the 5e adventures still have them. Actually now that I think about it, even with this thread the adventures must still have them. Because adventures taking place...

Back then you had a lot of volunteers who cared to take charge of and coordinate this and then had WotC actually also spend company ressources on overseeing their coordinated drafts

I disagree with your reasoning. Those fans super invested will have read up on those events before. Those fans with above average interest will read up on those events afterwards. And then the average audience doesn't care enough and has missed ordinary episodes inbetween anyway. So for them...

Now looking at them, I think we can say that as a rule of thumb the trilogies advanced the plot, the stand alone novels didn`t

It was. Ed started writing stories set in what became the FR before he played D&D. When he started D&D he used his setting as the background. Also a lot of novels did drive metaplot during editions. E.g. Return of the Archmages, The Last Mythal, Threat from the Sea, The Hunters Blade, The...

Actually dropping Thultanthar on Myth Drannor returns exactly that. Before Myth Drannor was reclaimed by the elven crusade and no longer an interesting multi-factional ruin but a driving city with public services, watchen, burocrats, shopping districts, etc. Now you once again have your...

Well, FR was a story setting long before it became a game setting and while being a game setting it managed to have a always continuing meta plot advancing via no less than 287 (!) novels and just as many game supplements. Sometimes a game supplement would introduce a new devlopement that would...

Actually I agree. I know you mean this sarcastic. But knowing that Firely just ends with a cliffhanger I am not even interested in starting what little there is. Worse enough if a series I started with is getting cancelled before it could run it's course to a proper ending, but I'd never start...

It's as logical as chosing the dish with mushrooms, because you enjoy eating mushrooms. It's a matter of taste. And while it isn't the current business model of D&D, up until the announcement there was still the hope that it could once again become the business model of D&D come 6e or 7e. It...

I am not. I just want to point that it's practically impossible to come up with any kind of trait or theme for demihumans that would not offend someone somwhere. So practically the only solution would be "these are short, stocky humans, these are tall, thin humans, this are short humans, less...

For you maybe, for others it's one of the if not the reasons for chosing a setting. My interested in Eberron died the moment I learned that it's a "dead" setting that will never move, never resolve the current issues in favor or progress and new issues, etc.

It drives the metaplot and ensures novels and supplements acknowledge and build on each other.

Actually I fail to see how any of what you describe is better than "orcs are warmongering conquerors because Gruumsh made them this way". "Dwarves are innate emotional connection to certain metals" is just the same in a different coat and if that were part of a setting assumption you can be...

Because I would not enjoy reading that Than that's your game. Doesn't matter for the ongoing canon metaplot. Neither does mine. My own games don't even matter for myself beyond the single campaign. Which I actually do a lot if the Wiki entry is detailed enough. I skipped quite a few entries in...

Of these events. Some fansite surely must have written them down. So when you get the reference in the show, you can later go online and read up on it

Except for the whole shadowlands on it's own. #### whatever you held dear in live, you're part of team death now! The light that you praised, worshipped and served all your life? That's now the enemy. And they're actually invading, so hurry and fight them off. The whole touching questline about...

Blizz is also an example why a proper canon is important, because Blizzard regularily contradict itself in expansion after expansion. Then they finally put out a "definitive" guide to WarCraft lore only the turn around some time later and declare that very guide to be unreliable and started to...