D&D 5E Do you care about setting "canon"?

[Corwin]

I would disagree that a 100 year time jump is additive. If you look at a normal human a 100 year jump would mean that not only are you dead, but your children and their children are dead, so all the NPCs that you knew in Waterdeep are all gone.

Telling stories about characters considered long dead from the "current time" is easy. Star Wars did it. As did Star Trek. Game of Thrones. Lots of IPs do it. It's easy.

 

[Shasarak]

Telling stories about characters considered long dead from the "current time" is easy. Star Wars did it. As did Star Trek. Game of Thrones. Lots of IPs do it. It's easy.

Not sure I understand. So the old characters are actually not dead, just stuck in a transporter buffer for 100 years?

 

[Corwin]

Not sure I understand. So the old characters are actually not dead, just stuck in a transporter buffer for 100 years?

If you want to get semantical and such, then none of the characters are *ever* dead. Because they aren't *real*. You can go back and tell all the stories about a setting's fictional past you like. The characters that were alive during that time will still be alive for the telling. Regardless of how far along any kind of "current time" has progressed. Whatever that even means when discussing a long-lived setting that spans ages.

 

[Shasarak]

If you want to get semantical and such, then none of the characters are *ever* dead. Because they aren't *real*. You can go back and tell all the stories about a setting's fictional past you like. The characters that were alive during that time will still be alive for the telling. Regardless of how far along any kind of "current time" has progressed. Whatever that even means when discussing a long-lived setting that spans ages.

So you mean that we are adventuring through the Forgotten Realms circa 1490DR and then *flash back* we are back in 1387DR to talk to good old Wilburforce and then *boom* forward to 1490 again? Is that about how it works in your game?

 

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[Corwin]

So you mean that we are adventuring through the Forgotten Realms circa 1490DR and then *flash back* we are back in 1387DR to talk to good old Wilburforce and then *boom* forward to 1490 again? Is that about how it works in your game?

You seem to be very confused. I'm not sure yet if its intentional. You are definitely mixing up the conversations though. That's for certain. I'm at a loss as to how to present it more clearly than I already have. Congrats on that, at least.

 

[Corwin]

You know, before I answer any more questions there's something I wanted to say. Having received all your letters over the years, and I've spoken to many of you, and some of you have traveled... y'know... hundreds of miles to be here, I'd just like to say... GET A LIFE, will you people? I mean, for crying out loud, it's just a TV show! I mean, look at you, look at the way you're dressed! You've turned an enjoyable little job, that I did as a lark for a few years, into a COLOSSAL WASTE OF TIME!

[ a crowd of shocked and dismayed Trekkies.... ]

I mean, how old are you people? What have you done with yourselves?

[ to "Ears" ] You, you must be almost 30... have you ever kissed a girl?

[ "Ears" hangs his head ]

I didn't think so! There's a whole world out there! When I was your age, I didn't watch television! I LIVED! So... move out of your parent's basements! And get your own apartments and GROW THE HELL UP! I mean, it's just a TV show dammit, IT'S JUST A TV SHOW!


/shatner

You left out a. ton. of periods. there.

 

[Jester David]

I would disagree that a 100 year time jump is additive. If you look at a normal human a 100 year jump would mean that not only are you dead, but your children and their children are dead, so all the NPCs that you knew in Waterdeep are all gone.

A much better idea would have been maybe a 10 or 20 year jump which allows you to bring in a new generation without necessarily having to get rid of favourite characters.

The twin world debacle was also subtractive if the bits you liked were the ones crushed under the new lands.

It wasn't a great move, but it didn't erase any stories. The old stories still happened, the old products still existed, they just all happened a hundred years prior.
Just like having Star Trek: The Next Generation set a full century after the original series didn't negate that series.

 

[Shasarak]

You seem to be very confused. I'm not sure yet if its intentional. You are definitely mixing up the conversations though. That's for certain. I'm at a loss as to how to present it more clearly than I already have. Congrats on that, at least.

If it is so easy that Star Trek did it then I dont know why it is so difficult for you to explain it?

 

[Corwin]

If it is so easy that Star Trek did it then I dont know why it is so difficult for you to explain it?

Did what? What did Star Trek do that needs explaining? That they, after many years of canonical shows and movies, went back hundreds of years to tell stories about the original Enterprise and its trailblazing crew? A crew that will have been dead for generations by the time of the ST:TOS show?