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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5996593" data-attributes="member: 22424">I suspect he's wrong about that. I expect the Sundering to be a quasi-reboot of the setting, rolling back most of the changes of the 4e Realms (and probably the 3e and 2nd Ed Realms as well), to go back to a model much closer to the Grey Box.My expectation is that that rewrite of the Tablets of Fate will probably either bring back the gods that died in the Spellplague/ToT, or introduce new gods that do the same things. But also, I expect them to require the gods to have much less direct influence on the world.Likewise, I would expect the Sundering to do something to shorten the shadows cast by Drizzt, Eliminster, et al - none of them will simply be killed, but I expect that they'll probably end up being much more bound to fairly small geographic areas - Elminster is involved in Shadowdale, but has little influence elsewhere; likewise Drizzt and Mithral Hall, and so on.The net effect of this should be that PCs are much more free to be the stars of their own adventures without any overshadowing by the 'star' NPCs (real or imagined), and yet being able to adventure in a world much more like the 'classic' Realms.(I hate to say it, but I also suspect that the six novels in the Sundering series may be quite poor. Like the Avatar trilogy, I suspect they'll exist to do the job of revising the Realms, rather than because they're good books in their own right, and that may well compromise their quality. Of course, I could well be wrong about that...)</blockquote>

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