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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 8154342" data-attributes="member: 6801060">It worked ok with the Forgotten Realms as long as it was a slow, steady progression, which is how it was from the setting's introduction to the end of 3e. Usually when there was a move of a few years (which usually happened upon edition changes or with a single major mid-edition release), there would be a quick run-down of major events in a general setting product. If you wanted more detail, you could read all the novels (which was a good amount of reading), but usually these mini-updates would be enough. Since the setting "present" during that time only moved forward 17 years - from 1358 DR in the Gray Box to 1375 DR in The Grand History of the Realms (1375 DR was its stated "present", although it basically spelled out what would happen in the succeeding 10 years up to the Spellplague in its epilogue) - it meant that information from older books was usually still valid even an edition or two later, although, obviously, not always. But if that NPC was running an inn in a small town in a 1e book, there's every chance she was still doing so by the time 3e ended. The steady progression forward did give the setting a sense of unfolding history and being a part of that as you played.Now, moving the whole setting forward 100+ years, that's an entirely different story altogether.</blockquote>