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<blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 7445746" data-attributes="member: 6879661">If I’m honest, I’m a massive fan of the Forgotten realms, and its myriad layers of history. But at the same time I have zero respect for any trying to enforce lore fanaticism on 5th ed. I didn’t play 4E for all sorts of reasons but I do like the fact that it put all the letters back in the scrabble bag and let us start again, albeit heavily inspired by earlier editions.I think what this thread shows is how creative the realms can now be, whereas perhaps there was a view that it was locked down from a lore perspective in earlier editions. I strongly ageee that the unreliable narrator style 5e has adopted makes an amazing tool to preserve our own preferences. If I decide Shadar Kai don’t exist in my FR - well Mordenkainen was clearly getting his worlds confused.One thing I would like to see in time are source books that explore a location over a longer period of time. The 4E Menzoberranzan source book for instance let you play at any time over a couple of hundred years, detailing how the city changed. It was also very low crunch and reminded me of something like SCAG.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheSword, post: 7445746, member: 6879661"] If I’m honest, I’m a massive fan of the Forgotten realms, and its myriad layers of history. But at the same time I have zero respect for any trying to enforce lore fanaticism on 5th ed. I didn’t play 4E for all sorts of reasons but I do like the fact that it put all the letters back in the scrabble bag and let us start again, albeit heavily inspired by earlier editions. I think what this thread shows is how creative the realms can now be, whereas perhaps there was a view that it was locked down from a lore perspective in earlier editions. I strongly ageee that the unreliable narrator style 5e has adopted makes an amazing tool to preserve our own preferences. If I decide Shadar Kai don’t exist in my FR - well Mordenkainen was clearly getting his worlds confused. One thing I would like to see in time are source books that explore a location over a longer period of time. The 4E Menzoberranzan source book for instance let you play at any time over a couple of hundred years, detailing how the city changed. It was also very low crunch and reminded me of something like SCAG. [/QUOTE]

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