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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7731714" data-attributes="member: 6775031">The big problem that it creates, specifically for the Forgotten Realms, is that it completely destroys the one redeeming quality of an otherwise-bloated generic kitchen-sink setting. The fact that the world actually worked differently - that vampires used to drain levels, and are now reduced to a shadow of their former selves - that individuals might remember when magic worked differently, and they had to re-learn everything - created a lot of opportunity for stories that couldn't exist anywhere else. The transcendent nature of the Realms was the one unique thing that it brought to the table.It's probably a step in the right direction for other settings, though. I don't know that Krynn or Oerth ever acknowledged the changes, so it's probably easier to just to handwave it as different dimensions.</blockquote>