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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viktyr Gehrig" data-source="post: 2489183" data-attributes="member: 9249">As much as Forgotten Realms has a serious problem with major NPCs, what it generally does not have a problem with is metaplot. Faerûn is a huge continent and the huge crises that the huge NPCs are dealing with still leave you plenty of room for your own campaign. (Though, once your PCs start dealing with big problems, you do start to wonder where Elminster and Drizzt are hiding.)In Dragonlance, not only are the PCs overshadowed by the main NPCs of a game-- which is a crtical problem in any RPG setting-- there's simply no room to deal with other problems. The events of the metaplot-of-the-moment dominate the entire planet; characters not involved with it are utterly insignificant, and PCs involved with it are forced to take a backseat role to the NPC stars of the setting.  To play otherwise is to make massive changes to the setting's canon, moreso than in other D&D settings-- even moreso than Forgotten Realms, which also has serious (though less fatal) metaplot problems.</blockquote>