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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 8715732" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>If it were me, and given the fact that the market is now so thoroughly dominated by new fans, I'd take the opportunity to pick a date (some time after the most recent update), decide how they want the world to look, and then write a new history for the world that pays lip service to the big events of the past but doesn't put much detail into them (that is, the Spellplague happened, but don't bother describing just what it changed where or why).</p><p></p><p>(But the key thing there is that I'd decide how I wanted it to look <em>first</em>, and then revise the history to suit. So if there's some nation that was wiped out in the 4e update but that I wanted back, I'd happily ignore that 4e update.)</p><p></p><p>And once that was done, I'd freeze it as is (or as close to it as they can manage) - no Realms Shaking events for 6e, or whatever new editions are called. Cut Drizzt and the movies loose and let them do their own thing, but for the game it stays were it is.</p><p></p><p>The end result would be similar to the position with Eberron - there have been a very small number of updates to the lore since it was first published, but the calendar has stayed the same.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 8715732, member: 22424"] If it were me, and given the fact that the market is now so thoroughly dominated by new fans, I'd take the opportunity to pick a date (some time after the most recent update), decide how they want the world to look, and then write a new history for the world that pays lip service to the big events of the past but doesn't put much detail into them (that is, the Spellplague happened, but don't bother describing just what it changed where or why). (But the key thing there is that I'd decide how I wanted it to look [I]first[/I], and then revise the history to suit. So if there's some nation that was wiped out in the 4e update but that I wanted back, I'd happily ignore that 4e update.) And once that was done, I'd freeze it as is (or as close to it as they can manage) - no Realms Shaking events for 6e, or whatever new editions are called. Cut Drizzt and the movies loose and let them do their own thing, but for the game it stays were it is. The end result would be similar to the position with Eberron - there have been a very small number of updates to the lore since it was first published, but the calendar has stayed the same. [/QUOTE]
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