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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4002779" data-attributes="member: 22779">Because most of the 3e canon is written on the assumption that you have been following 2e canon as well.  They reference, repeatedly, events that occured before the release of 3e.  The entire reason the Realms looks like it does originates in 2e, not 3e.  (okay, I'm ignoring bits here for simplicity, but, bear with me)Even with books like PGtF, they reference numerous books and events outside of 3e.  This is the base book that all FR players are probably assumed to have.  You don't just start with "Silver Marches" and go from there, ignoring for the moment that you're talking about a book that's for 3e and not even for 3.5.  At least, a new player wouldn't.  A new player is going to start with the PGtF.  A fairly reasonable place to start.And, right in the introductory book, he gets slapped in the face with twentyish years of canon, much of it out of print.  Why are the Elves coming back?  Why did they leave in the first place?  Myth Dranor and the Mythal.  Harpers.  Elminister.  Kelben Blackstaff.  Right in the opening book, a new player is being whacked with a big stinky canon fish.Now, hopefully, I can pick up the new PGtF, and it will begin historical references at the beginning of the Spellplague.  I don't need to know what Unther was - it's gone.  I don't need to know what happened in the Underdark beforehand - it's a big open pit now.Fantastic.  I no longer have to wade through pages of reprinted historical material because a major event has rendered most of it irrelevent.</blockquote>

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