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A large part would play the games anyway and most of the other part would just read the summary online, maybe even watch a video on youtube with all cutscenes taped together like a movie. (I do this for some series which I am still interested enough to follow the story, but no longer interested...

Not other people, the publisher specifically. If there's a novel wherer Azoun dies or Tilverton gets blown up, the enjoyment relies on future products set at a later date picking up on this. If after Azoun's death at 1371 DR in a novel future supplements set in 1373 DR have him alive and well...

They never had. Your campaign is un-canon basically the moment it starts.

Actually it would be age of consent in a lot of european countries today. So it might be shocking to americans, but it's not automatically rape. Actually GRRM has come out said that he simply did not think it through properly and today would have made them older.

If the book morphs into a monster as soon as it's reads that's most certainly not legal goods. At the very least distribution, if not already possession and manufacturing, would not be legal. The area around Candlekeep is unter the authority of the fortress-library of Candlekeep. So if the PCs...

I only know about the setup what's described here in this thread, not having read the adventure myself, but from that I would say that any option that does not involve the NPC answering for their crimes is not an ethical solution. So peacefully buying them off to stop future murders and walk...

There's wasn't really one. Die Vecna, Die! was cited as sort of reason but truth to be told, the FR story just ignored it. Before Bane's realm was just a limited area located withing the greater plane of Gehenna, after it was supposedly it's own entire plane. But when an FR novel during that...

They even explained in a novel when they later did away with this rule and drow items no longer disintegrated on the surface

But this Tiamat is limited and only available from Wizkids directly. At least that's what I thought. Isn't it so?

Gotta diasgree. The years I followed D&D by reading novels far outnumber the years also played D&D as a game. I am certainly not the only one.

I read it and it's still bu#####t If Salvatore had this epiphany he could have allowed one of the many non-evil drow cultures that he used his popularity as the prime drow author to get them sidelined and forgotten because they were not created by him but other authors. I guess his ego doesn't...

Yeah, sure ... I mean we need to give this guy a break, he was only writing Drizzt novels and one of the major forces behind defining drow and drow culture for a couple of decades. Hardly any time to notice :rolleyes: At leas he wasn't using his popularity to jealously sideline and bury...

And all of that would be possible to grow from 1486 DR (or wherever FR currently is at) onward. No need to throw out novels that happened 1273 DR from ever having happened

Yet for some people that means we will no longer be able to enjoy new stories and the mythos of the Forgotten Realms . Having now read more and more of this thread I am more sad about so many posts expressing their outright glee about seeing something that other people cared about deeply being...

Actually WotC (and TSR) had statements, just like the one this thread is about, exactly about such cases. Video games themselves were not canon, but the novels based on those video games then were the canon version of how it happened

Since they actually ended the novel line 7 years ago after the Sundering novels, this declaring doesn't really change much. There's no lore thrown out, because no non-splatbook lore was published during those 7 years. The last FR novels came out 2014 and this are still part of the canon. Edit...

I disagree. It's one of the reason I never bought an Eberron novel. However since the novel line ended years ago, it doesn't really matter what approach the take now. Non-existing novels can't be canon anyway

Tortured maybe for Athas, but Krynn was pretty well connected. There was a lot of traffic between Krynn and Toril Thing is that we can, but we just have different tastes. For us that's a good thing, because we want to see those implications pop up in offical products. It brings us joy to read...

I wouldn't call it a misunderstanding but rather a different view of what D&D is about. For me D&D was always it's story. I only followed D&D by reading it's novel for years before I played my first P&P and since years when I played my last P&P (around the time Curse of Strahd was released)...

Or just do it like always and say that their planes are just areas upon the known planes. Just like D&D did almost always.