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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8538087" data-attributes="member: 6801228">But... they don't want to do that. In fact in many ways they cannot possibly do that. Let me ask you this question, who defeats Auril in Rime of the Frost Maiden? You can say &quot;the player characters&quot; but that's a non-answer really. Those player characters could have included Throm the Dwarven Paladin of Berronar Truesilver, or Sh'lak the Twisted Reborn Warlock. Were they the same player characters that are the Heroes of Phandalin or are they the same player characters who run a brutal tyranny over Phandalin? Did they ever meet Strahd? Just by releasing an adventure that can have multiple endings, which by their very nature RPG adventures MUST have many possible endings, they have abandoned a model that is a shared universe. Heck, I think there was a Forgotten Realms story called &quot;Brimstone Angels&quot;. I've never read it. Events happen in that story, in the Forgotten Realms... but they don't affect the Forgotten Realms that is being published in Adventures in any meaningful way. Now, they can only publish one version of the Forgotten Realms, and they could make a lot of money by focusing on that version, but that is a version that fits best in novels and movies and TV shows, not in how people will run the game at their tables.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8538087, member: 6801228"] But... they don't want to do that. In fact in many ways they cannot possibly do that. Let me ask you this question, who defeats Auril in Rime of the Frost Maiden? You can say "the player characters" but that's a non-answer really. Those player characters could have included Throm the Dwarven Paladin of Berronar Truesilver, or Sh'lak the Twisted Reborn Warlock. Were they the same player characters that are the Heroes of Phandalin or are they the same player characters who run a brutal tyranny over Phandalin? Did they ever meet Strahd? Just by releasing an adventure that can have multiple endings, which by their very nature RPG adventures MUST have many possible endings, they have abandoned a model that is a shared universe. Heck, I think there was a Forgotten Realms story called "Brimstone Angels". I've never read it. Events happen in that story, in the Forgotten Realms... but they don't affect the Forgotten Realms that is being published in Adventures in any meaningful way. Now, they can only publish one version of the Forgotten Realms, and they could make a lot of money by focusing on that version, but that is a version that fits best in novels and movies and TV shows, not in how people will run the game at their tables. [/QUOTE]

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