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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ilbranteloth" data-source="post: 6789991" data-attributes="member: 6778044">This is an interesting topic by itself.  Party of the problem unfortunately,  at least in the case of the Forgotten Realms, lies in the decisions made by TSR and WotC. Starting with the 2nd edition they started adding anything and everything to the setting.  I'd really rather not have tieflings and dragonborn in my campaigns,  but I'm also here to run a game the players want to play,  and that's what they want. A secondary factor,  and part of what is causing some issue in this discussion,  is that the rules were written for a general medieval fantasy game, not to specifically support the Forgotten Realms. The 3rd edition was,  in part, to reign in the fact that the rules varied significantly between the many published game worlds. A Ravenloft game was quite different from a Dark Sun campaign compared to Red Steel, Spelljammer or Council of Dragons. The 4th edition took this to an extreme,  killing off scores of Gods and changing the entire cosmology, not to mention changing the rules so drastically that made it nearly impossible to continue with the same campaign. All the while publishing new 'canon' for the Realms. Now I'm not as against the changes as some other people.  I can deal with the Spellplague and such. I don't have to like everything that happens in the game world any more than I have to like everything that happens in this one.  And we thought the Time of Troubles was kind of cool at the time.But looking back,  I've come to the conclusion that a good rule set doesn't get in the way of the campaign. That means rule modifications to improve the gameplay or address shortcomings are good.  But those that fundamentally change the world? Not so much.5th edition does this very well. I've changed a number of things, mostly to ensure the rules support scenes such as the warrior injured in battle that needs you to carry the standard and finished the job for him, or 'I am not left-handed', etc.So I think we're in a good place to see the settings diverge again, back to thwire unique entities. But it will take some work on the parts of the players and DM'so to maintain that uniqueness in their campaigns.I'm a bit more of a stickler for my home campaigns than public ones.Ilbranteloth</blockquote>

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