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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 9583259" data-attributes="member: 467">The first thing you would have to do is figure out what "narrative consistency" means in terms of tone. You can't have both BG3 and HAT both be equally valid expressions of D&D if you want any sort of narative consistency. You are going to need to narrow the potential breadth, and that would make it look a lot more like the MCU as an example: there are some movies that are a little more serious than others, but generally they all have the same pallette and feel.If you do that with D&D, I think you need to go closer to HAT than BG3, just for wide audience appeal. (HAT feels like a MCU movie to me.)As to the question of whether this means heavy on the metaplot as others suggested in the original thread: i don't think so. Rather, lore is embedded in many, many elements of D&D and I think the job would look a lot more like continuity editing. So the next thing i would do is a major audit for WotC's lore from everything they have published or produced for 5E and slash and burn until I had the definitive lore bible for the multiverse. Where we found multiple versions of a thing, I would settle on one. That bible would then rule everything going forward. When an old elements was reintroduced or new element created, it would get checked against the bible, and then added to it.</blockquote>