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<blockquote data-quote="Belorin" data-source="post: 4905898" data-attributes="member: 33129">IMHO, yes however just not as extreme as they did. The changes from 1E to 2E and 3E to 3.5 were mainly superficial, involving mainly minor changes to characters and combat. Level access and limits for the various races and classes and things like AC, thac0 and a deity's power level.4E took pretty much every aspect of the game and altered how it worked, Forgotten Realms as the now showcase setting needed to change, however there were some major obstacles to this; the Realms well defined history and it's lore-masters, the perceived overabundance of super npcs and deities and the constant flow of canon information via the novels. Some of which appeared to contradict established lore. The way magic worked was changing and Mystra as the goddess of magic had a stranglehold on it with the Weave, then there was Shar with her corrupt version, the Shadow Weave, with the fundamental changes in the way magic worked something had to give. Now how they did it, I don't condone, with the length of time that they worked on 4E, I could have come up with something less disturbing and many have. But, it killed a few birds with one stone so they ran with it. The Spellplague took care of the rules and the necessary time jump took care of the lore. Bel</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Belorin, post: 4905898, member: 33129"] IMHO, yes however just not as extreme as they did. The changes from 1E to 2E and 3E to 3.5 were mainly superficial, involving mainly minor changes to characters and combat. Level access and limits for the various races and classes and things like AC, thac0 and a deity's power level. 4E took pretty much every aspect of the game and altered how it worked, Forgotten Realms as the now showcase setting needed to change, however there were some major obstacles to this; the Realms well defined history and it's lore-masters, the perceived overabundance of super npcs and deities and the constant flow of canon information via the novels. Some of which appeared to contradict established lore. The way magic worked was changing and Mystra as the goddess of magic had a stranglehold on it with the Weave, then there was Shar with her corrupt version, the Shadow Weave, with the fundamental changes in the way magic worked something had to give. Now how they did it, I don't condone, with the length of time that they worked on 4E, I could have come up with something less [I]disturbing[/I] and many have. But, it killed a few birds with one stone so they ran with it. The Spellplague took care of the rules and the [I]necessary[/I] time jump took care of the lore. Bel [/QUOTE]

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