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<blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 7790044" data-attributes="member: 6677017">The funny thing for me is that, while I actually approve of them setting Ghosts of Saltmarsh in original era Greyhawk (I only got the 1983 boxed set a couple years ago, but it is fantastic—how a campaign setting should be done), my ongoing campaign was already set in the 3e era, so I have to find a way to adjust the Scarlet Brotherhood material to fit a post Greyhawk Wars setting. A sentence or two would help with that, since I’m kind of at a loss.But that gives me an idea. What they should do (and should have for Forgotten Realms, but they botched it in 4e and then put out so many novels and such supporting the unpopular timeline adjustments that they didn’t feel like they could just reboot in 5e...very very unfortunate because it means I have to “fix” every single 5e Forgotten Realms book I buy, or just skip it) is to set all campaign settings in their original classic eras, and then provide a few paragraphs in an appendix explaining how to update the setting to various later eras, with links to DMsGuild products that provide the best additional overviews of those eras. That would be totally doable. It is substantially easier in my opinion to advance a timeline for personal use than to regress it. Waterdeep Dragon Heist is useless to me, for example, as is the world overview material in SCAG. Even Out of the Abyss is requiring a lot of creativity to fit Blingdenstone as presented into an earlier era (and that’s as far as I’ve read, I don’t know how much other stuff I’ll have to fix).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sword of Spirit, post: 7790044, member: 6677017"] The funny thing for me is that, while I actually approve of them setting Ghosts of Saltmarsh in original era Greyhawk (I only got the 1983 boxed set a couple years ago, but it is fantastic—how a campaign setting should be done), my ongoing campaign was already set in the 3e era, so I have to find a way to adjust the Scarlet Brotherhood material to fit a post Greyhawk Wars setting. A sentence or two would help with that, since I’m kind of at a loss. But that gives me an idea. What they should do (and should have for Forgotten Realms, but they botched it in 4e and then put out so many novels and such supporting the unpopular timeline adjustments that they didn’t feel like they could just reboot in 5e...very very unfortunate because it means I have to “fix” every single 5e Forgotten Realms book I buy, or just skip it) is to set all campaign settings in their original classic eras, and then provide a few paragraphs in an appendix explaining how to update the setting to various later eras, with links to DMsGuild products that provide the best additional overviews of those eras. That would be totally doable. It is substantially easier in my opinion to advance a timeline for personal use than to regress it. Waterdeep Dragon Heist is useless to me, for example, as is the world overview material in SCAG. Even Out of the Abyss is requiring a lot of creativity to fit Blingdenstone as presented into an earlier era (and that’s as far as I’ve read, I don’t know how much other stuff I’ll have to fix). [/QUOTE]

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