D'karr
Adventurer
Majoru Oakheart said:We were told the Realms was in for a kind of shake up at GenCon, so there might be LESS background that is important to the campaign.
As for the integration. It was explained to us as "Imagine you could take the path less traveled in that novel you just read, finishing the part of the story that the heroes in the novel didn't. Imagine if a novel was written where Drizz't ended up helping your mission from a different angle. That's the kind of thing we're going for."
One of the things they did mention was the the shakeup of the Forgotten Realms was starting with R.A. Salvatore's "The Orc King", which should be out this month.