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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 7662208" data-attributes="member: 12388">Yes, the 30th anniversary of the published setting.As it relates to the history of the setting, it's creative roots and when words were first put to paper (and not simply batting ideas back and forth), it very much counts. These are events in time. Counting the years from when an event happens to now and tracing its history along the way, and being able to parse the difference between this activity and a particular example of one historical event (a setting's publication date) is not that difficult a thing to do.As has been stated previously, more than once, when we talk about the Realms being 50 years old it's done so in the historical sense. Not in the "when was it published" sense.Edit: not to belabor the obvious, but the word "history" is in the thread title.2nd Edit: according to Ed Greenwood over at the Realms Secretariat website, he did publish Zirta at a young age. I am curious what form that publication took, or if he might be stretching the definition of that word.</blockquote>