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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 3813409" data-attributes="member: 14159">These Realms-Breaking events wouldn't be quite as bad if they weren't a very transparent attempt to completely remake the Realms to fit 4th Edition, from how wizards work to the cosmology.The Time of Troubles did explain some very minor (by comparison) changes from 1e to 2e, mostly spells having damage that capped at certain levels (like Fireball stopping at 10d6 and Magic Missile stopping at 5d4+4) and Illusionists having a different spell list between 1e and 2e, and Assassin not being a character class anymore.  However, you could run the Realms in either era with either set of rules and not have a big problem, there was even a whole 2e box (Netheril: Empire of Magic) set devoted to running the Realms in the distant past, ostensibly in the 1e era.Changes bigger than the 1e/2e change were glossed over quietly from 2e to 3e without a single Realms Shaking Event to explain it all.  There was no sudden need to explain where sorcerers came from, or where 8th and 9th level divine spells came from or why Rangers and Paladins got spells far earlier, and the existence of the Shadow Weave was retconned into existence in the novels as happening during Karsus's Folly but it was a big secret until recently.Now, 4e is so different that a Realms-shaking event far bigger than the Time of Troubles is needed to account for the changes, and the changes to the system are so large that you can't play a faithful version of the pre-Spellplague realms with 4e, and pre-4e editions won't have significant parts of the setting that exists in 4e.</blockquote>

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