Hussar
Legend
Heh. It’s funny about the point about mysteries in Forgotten Realms. I’m running Candlekeep Mysteries and one of my side plots that has arisen flows from the locations in the Shadowfell. Namely the Shining Citadel - the rumoured location where the Shadowfell was created.
I only heard about this while dumpster diving for lore about the Shadowfell as it relates to FR and stumbled across it on the FR wiki.
It has now become probably the capstone of my campaign.
So two things stand out for me. There are a TON of mysteries in FR if you look for them. Second, unfortunately most of these are buried in the mountain of material out there and without a wiki setup, probably very few people could find them.
So again, for me anyway, this is absolutely the golden age for lore. There is absolutely no way I could have run this campaign ten years ago. There is no way I could have learned about the Shining Citadel unless I randomly bought two or three different books and found the entries - and some of the references are from novels with no index.
Why on earth does WotC need to bang out new lore? I doubt anyone here has done more than scratch the surface of FR lore if you are limiting yourself to print.
Good grief. How much lore was there on the old WotC website? Dragon Magazine? Dungeon? Thousands and tens of thousands of pages of lore produced over the past thirty or forty years.
You can’t possibly do more than scratch the surface of that.
I only heard about this while dumpster diving for lore about the Shadowfell as it relates to FR and stumbled across it on the FR wiki.
It has now become probably the capstone of my campaign.
So two things stand out for me. There are a TON of mysteries in FR if you look for them. Second, unfortunately most of these are buried in the mountain of material out there and without a wiki setup, probably very few people could find them.
So again, for me anyway, this is absolutely the golden age for lore. There is absolutely no way I could have run this campaign ten years ago. There is no way I could have learned about the Shining Citadel unless I randomly bought two or three different books and found the entries - and some of the references are from novels with no index.
Why on earth does WotC need to bang out new lore? I doubt anyone here has done more than scratch the surface of FR lore if you are limiting yourself to print.
Good grief. How much lore was there on the old WotC website? Dragon Magazine? Dungeon? Thousands and tens of thousands of pages of lore produced over the past thirty or forty years.
You can’t possibly do more than scratch the surface of that.