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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9370399" data-attributes="member: 907">I think the reason is that the past tense is stable. Forgotten Realms has always had an ongoing metaplot (although less so in 5e). For example, let's say we have an article about Cormyr written back in, say, 2003, and it was written in the present tense, it would say that &quot;Cormyr's king is the infant Azoun V, but the real ruler is his aunt Alusair Obaraskyr who's acting as a regent.&quot; You'd also have articles about Azoun V and Alusair, saying that they are king and regent, respectively. But then you have the release of 4e, moving the timeline up by about a century, meaning that those things are no longer true about the current Realms. So not only do you need to add the new events to various articles, you also need to rewrite the existing text to past tense because that's, well, in the past. But if you write everything in the past tense, you don't need to worry about that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 9370399, member: 907"] I think the reason is that the past tense is stable. Forgotten Realms has always had an ongoing metaplot (although less so in 5e). For example, let's say we have an article about Cormyr written back in, say, 2003, and it was written in the present tense, it would say that "Cormyr's king is the infant Azoun V, but the real ruler is his aunt Alusair Obaraskyr who's acting as a regent." You'd also have articles about Azoun V and Alusair, saying that they are king and regent, respectively. But then you have the release of 4e, moving the timeline up by about a century, meaning that those things are no longer true about the current Realms. So not only do you need to [B]add[/B] the new events to various articles, you also need to rewrite the existing text to past tense because that's, well, in the past. But if you write everything in the past tense, you don't need to worry about that. [/QUOTE]

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