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<blockquote data-quote="SirAntoine" data-source="post: 6497204" data-attributes="member: 6731904">It would be bad because for them it's a job they are doing for all of us, whereas an individual DM is just using their own personal preferences. If it is really impractical for the company to support existing canon, they might want to edit their prospective writing then. Frankly, I don't think TSR has been good at this since Gygax ran the company. I asked myself if I can remember a setting that has never been &quot;blown up&quot; as people say, and only BirthRight comes to mind. In every other setting, they have radically shaken up the world all of a sudden.In the Forgotten Realms, this has happened more than once. You first had the Time of Troubles, and eventually all they did for 4th Edition. In Greyhawk, you had the Greyhawk Wars and their aftermath, again, all of a sudden. And in Mystara, you had the Wrath of the Immortals all of a sudden. In DragonLance, there are many great changes but at least these came more gradually. In Ravenloft, things were shaken up all of a sudden.You end up with settings like Dark Sun, where many players long for the original boxed set. Planescape and BirthRight may be the only settings to escape this trend. Neither is widely played, but both have a loyal fanbase. I don't know much about Al-Qadim and SpellJammer, or Eberron, but it strikes me as really odd that the authors have felt so many times they needed to blow up their worlds in order to continue to use them in later products.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SirAntoine, post: 6497204, member: 6731904"] It would be bad because for them it's a job they are doing for all of us, whereas an individual DM is just using their own personal preferences. If it is really impractical for the company to support existing canon, they might want to edit their prospective writing then. Frankly, I don't think TSR has been good at this since Gygax ran the company. I asked myself if I can remember a setting that has never been "blown up" as people say, and only BirthRight comes to mind. In every other setting, they have radically shaken up the world all of a sudden. In the Forgotten Realms, this has happened more than once. You first had the Time of Troubles, and eventually all they did for 4th Edition. In Greyhawk, you had the Greyhawk Wars and their aftermath, again, all of a sudden. And in Mystara, you had the Wrath of the Immortals all of a sudden. In DragonLance, there are many great changes but at least these came more gradually. In Ravenloft, things were shaken up all of a sudden. You end up with settings like Dark Sun, where many players long for the original boxed set. Planescape and BirthRight may be the only settings to escape this trend. Neither is widely played, but both have a loyal fanbase. I don't know much about Al-Qadim and SpellJammer, or Eberron, but it strikes me as really odd that the authors have felt so many times they needed to blow up their worlds in order to continue to use them in later products. [/QUOTE]

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