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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 6358602" data-attributes="member: 19857">Especially since so many of the fans of FR are actually fans of the novels.  If you do a reset, what does that do to the novels?  If you pull a retcon (it was all a dream) then what about the novels set during that time period?  Whenever you get long-running continuity involved you end up with that kind of problem.  (Frankly I think rebooting is a bad idea though - for just about any property - reboots are a great jumping off point for old fans, you almost never get more new fans jumping on just because of the reboot, and even when you do it's hard to keep the momentum of a reboot going).I think that's the best option, frankly.  Don't jump a century into the future like they did with 4e because that screws with all of your novel series authors.  In fact they should probably work with the major authors of the FR line to plan how far to jump ahead and what the general shape of the politics of the Realms will look like, because it's going to impact the authors as much as it does the gamers.  (More actually because the gamers can always choose to ignore whatever they feel like ignoring, while the authors are kind of stuck with whatever decisions Wizards makes about their campaign settings if they want to keep writing for them.)</blockquote>