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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 5844843" data-attributes="member: 32536">How so? In fact, that comment I made only has the truth I intended for it in the context of D&D itself. D&D settings are less "real" than even something like the continuity of a fictional world like Tolkien's Middle Earth or the Star Trek Universe. They are not a world so much as a suggestion for a world. Because of the way D&D is played, with hundreds of individual DMs each creating their own version of a setting with the freedom to adjust, create, or discard whatever they please, the actual fictional world doesn't even exist except on the level of an individual campaign. As far as the actual game of D&D is concerned, there is no such thing as a genuine Forgotten Realms canonical timeline, only a suggestion for a timeline.Also, the fact that the concept is true for any discussion of games or fictional worlds doesn't mean it is "unfruitful," it just highlights the oddity of your approach.Also, it would be nice if you didn't pull one sentence out of context, dismiss it on shallow grounds, and ignore the rest of what I tried to say. It makes it hard to call this a "discussion" if you do things like that.</blockquote>