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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 7008140" data-attributes="member: 6796661">As someone who quite playing DnD before The Forgotten Realms campaign material was published and who didn't start up again until 5e, my whole take on the Realms is that they would make these huge cataclysmic events to wipe the slate clean for each edition. In the Lore you should know segment, Chris Perkins basically admits that is what they did for 5e and didn't seem to be overly concerned in fleshing out the details. I love the Lore You Should Know segments of the D&D podcast, especially those that focus on races, factions, monsters and they discuss the history of it through the editions. But whenever it touches on FR history, I tune out. The whole FR time line and history doesn't appeal much to me. If I ever run an FR campaign instead of my home brew, I would try to ignore most of the history, but worry that would be hard or impossible to do. I think that what bothers me most of FR is that there are so many works of fiction written about it that your characters really are never the great heroes they should be. I'm interested in looking at Midgard (Kobold Press) and other campaigns that are hopefully less weighed down with so much canon material.</blockquote>