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<blockquote data-quote="Parmandur" data-source="post: 6497330" data-attributes="member: 6780330">Well, one of the main effects, and I recall reading somewhere that this was one of their primary goals, is that between the Spellplague (high level character holocaust by itself) and the hundred year time jump is that there is a near-zero chance of going into a town in the 4E setting and having to think about side characters from a twenty year old novel.&nbsp; They are all dead, if everyone is in the know there can be fun with grandkids or great-grandkids, but nobody has to consider the NPC population from prior publications when running the game.&nbsp; &quot;100 years from now, all new people&quot; as the Buddha said.I think that is why the time jump, but also the Spellplague to take out the high level characters.&nbsp; From what I've seen, it is very thoroughly a clean slate, cutting the strings effectively.&nbsp; Then the question becomes, was it a desirable effect?&nbsp; And as somebody who has never read a FR novel at all, it seems the novel readership was the most miffed, given the focus on bringing back the Salvatore characters they went out of their way yo annihilate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Parmandur, post: 6497330, member: 6780330"] Well, one of the main effects, and I recall reading somewhere that this was one of their primary goals, is that between the Spellplague (high level character holocaust by itself) and the hundred year time jump is that there is a near-zero chance of going into a town in the 4E setting and having to think about side characters from a twenty year old novel. They are all dead, if everyone is in the know there can be fun with grandkids or great-grandkids, but nobody has to consider the NPC population from prior publications when running the game. "100 years from now, all new people" as the Buddha said. I think that is why the time jump, but also the Spellplague to take out the high level characters. From what I've seen, it is very thoroughly a clean slate, cutting the strings effectively. Then the question becomes, was it a desirable effect? And as somebody who has never read a FR novel at all, it seems the novel readership was the most miffed, given the focus on bringing back the Salvatore characters they went out of their way yo annihilate. [/QUOTE]

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