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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 6221724" data-attributes="member: 1165">The only D&D setting metaplot that I ever got really involved with is Dark Sun. The setting was popular enough with my players that they liked it, but not to the point that they had read the novels, so I didn't have to deal with any FR or Dragonlance-style problems.The "metaplot" was what happened if the PCs didn't do anything (and of course the plot of the adventure paths we were doing).There are settings (Dragonlance, Eberron, even FR) whose history I liked, but once it reached "present day" it stopped. Unfortunately Dragonlance was the worst at this. I quickly realized I wouldn't want to run or play in any time period except the Kingpriest era or Wars of the Lance, and both were heavily metaplotted. I doubt I could find a D&D player these days who wasn't familiar with the Wars of the Lance either.Not knowing what the Sundering is doesn't make you a bad D&D player. It doesn't even make you a bad FR player (you have no idea how much willpower I expended to not make a joke there). It just means you're not  interested in that particular FR era. Any setting that gets large enough tends to cut itself up into mini-settings anyway. (Star Wars, for instance. I doubt I would ever play a Star Wars RPG unless it's in the KOTOR era, or right in the middle of the Clone Wars, about as far away from Annakin as is possible.)</blockquote>