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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 6499750" data-attributes="member: 12388">The novels have cared about the rules off and on throughout the history of the Forgotten Realms, to greater and lesser degree, based on the requirements of editors and what the authors thought best to do. Some sticking points have been things like what to do with infranvision(2e)/darkvision(3e). Broaden your horizons, grasshopper. The complaints were many and consistent. When you're dealing with the Realms, then no, it isn't. There's a difference between changing something and adding something (a better word than &quot;adding&quot; would be &quot;revealing&quot;). Just because tieflings weren't introduced as a playable race right away doesn't mean fiend-blooded beings haven't existed in the Realms since the start (and they have).Some people seem to have this attitude that what's in the rulebooks is all there is, and anything else printed later is a retcon. What a limited, myopic point of view. It's was editorial policy at TSR, and appears to be the same policy at WotC, to use some Realms novels as vehicles to introduce new types of magic and and other elements to readers, that some may well decide to stat out on their own, or that may find their way into sourcebooks at a future point. All of this in a fantasy world, mind, that's connected to a seemingly infinite number of other worlds, which allow for the introduction of all manner of beings, monsters, magic, etc. Dragonborn, for instance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeremy E Grenemyer, post: 6499750, member: 12388"] The novels have cared about the rules off and on throughout the history of the Forgotten Realms, to greater and lesser degree, based on the requirements of editors and what the authors thought best to do. Some sticking points have been things like what to do with infranvision(2e)/darkvision(3e). Broaden your horizons, grasshopper. The complaints were many and consistent. When you're dealing with the Realms, then no, it isn't. There's a difference between changing something and adding something (a better word than "adding" would be "revealing"). Just because tieflings weren't introduced as a playable race right away doesn't mean fiend-blooded beings haven't existed in the Realms since the start (and they have). Some people seem to have this attitude that what's in the rulebooks is all there is, and anything else printed later is a retcon. What a limited, myopic point of view. It's was editorial policy at TSR, and appears to be the same policy at WotC, to use some Realms novels as vehicles to introduce new types of magic and and other elements to readers, that some may well decide to stat out on their own, or that may find their way into sourcebooks at a future point. All of this in a fantasy world, mind, that's connected to a seemingly infinite number of other worlds, which allow for the introduction of all manner of beings, monsters, magic, etc. Dragonborn, for instance. [/QUOTE]

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