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In D&D lore they are very often the same being worshipped in different ways with different meanings. This of course would be up to the DM for his personal game, and WotC to tell us if it's official in some way that the deity is in an MtG setting under a different name. Again, this is often not...

How is that specifically for 5e? In 3e I can have... The Empire (humans, orcs, halflings, and tieflings) The Mountain Kingdom (dwarves) The Hill Kingdom (dwarves and halflings) The Rebellion (humans, orcs, and aasimar) The Dragon Republics (dragonborn, lizardfolk, and kobolds) The Runic...

Sure, but nothing baked into core is specifically Forgotten Realms.

You argued that the 5e rules bakes in the Forgotten Realms. Correlon isn't any more or less baked in OR setting specific than Action Surge is. 5e is setting agnostic. I wouldn't assume that.

Corellon isn't FR specific.

Yes, but your 1e 10th level wizard probably has 20-25 hit points and can't survive the breath weapon even if he saves.

Apparently you haven't been in some of the ride shares that I have been in.

Nothing was baked into the 5e core rules for Forgotten Realms. Like at all. When I look at elves, the subraces listed are not Gold and Moon, they are High and Wood. The gods listed are for the Realms, Eberron, Greyhawk, Non-human and more. Not just the Realms.

One of the guys I used to play with was DMing for 4 different groups. He had a huge map of the Forgotten Realms in his bedroom and used push pins to keep track of where each group was located. He also tracked time, so when groups passed each other at the same time, they'd hear about the...

I agree with you about damage spells being fun and being used by experienced players. That has been my experience as well. It's not just control spells. Also, given the discussions that I've seen here over the years, I think this site has a much higher percentage of people who DM/play to high...

And the wizard's low hit points to the high damage breath weapon.

I think they just wanted to do something new. 3e had the very popular Forgotten Realms, so they didn't need a new setting due to the unpopularity(if that's even the case) of Greyhawk.

Greyhawk was 3e/3.5e's default setting in the same way The Forgotten Realms is 5e's. There's very little in the way of support for those settings in the core books. So little that there really is no setting to default to.

Yeah. If you're new you should start small, dealing with much smaller groups and power structures. The first time I picked up the DMG to try my hand at DMing I would have been overwhelmed by all of those major areas and power structures.

You have 6 major groups there and 10 PHB races. Which ones suffer to make place for Dragonborn and Goliaths?

It can be very disrupting to the game and campaign. Unbalanced things can(and have) fallen into PC hands, major NPCs have been killed or worse, etc. The costs are the same. We can suffer in-fiction disruption and loss, and we can be have negative emotions occur in response to what happened...

Your players are going to end up in a lot better shape than my players.

It's not that black and white. I think that it's the player who is predominantly on the short end of the stick with it, but there have been numerous occasions where I have described the fiction, whether it be a trap or something else, where the players have come up with something I didn't think...

I don't know that I would go that far. Pretty much everything, mechanical or not, is divisive. I'm not sure one is more than the other.

Because it's a fool's errand to even try. The base is too fractured on everything, like people are on every topic.