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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 6136331" data-attributes="member: 58197">I don't play in or run games in the Forgotten Realms, so I don't really have a dog in this fight, but in general I think it's a serious mistake to "advance the timeline" of any setting. I strongly disapprove of metaplot. Settings should be presented as static baselines upon which individual DMs can build their own story arcs, without worrying that later setting material will be unusable because it changes that baseline. And when you start messing around with the theme and tone of a setting, you risk pushing away the current fans of that setting. Why do you think the Spellplague went over like a lead balloon?The Realms have long been the most popular D&D setting around. It ain't broke, don't fix it.</blockquote>