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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oaken25" data-source="post: 1213295" data-attributes="member: 5820">In 2e all novels and sourcebooks were canon. I asked James Lowder, on RAS's message boards, who edited novels for TSR for many years, and his answer I posted at the end of my reply here. However, you can still use this for 3e, other wise the Archwizard's novels would not be needed to explain what happened to Tilverton, or the events on how Evereska was destroyed. Also the novels that detail Lolth's silence, (which is partly written up in the new Underdark sourcebook, and will also be written up in the Player's Guide, that comes out in March. The Players Guide will also bring the "official" time line to 1373, at least in the sourcebooks. Since it is already 1373 in the novels.)James Lowder wrote: "The FR novels were part of the official FR continuity, at least until 1994. In fact, if you look at the game products like Hall of Heroes and Jungles of Chult, it's clear that the novels were very much driving many products. I can state this with some authoritry, as I was the FR fiction line editor for a couple of years in the early 1990s.In recent years, there has been discussion that the novels and games run on different continuity. I don't know about that. But such a split was certainly not the case for the first six or more years of the Realms' existance.Cheers,James LowderHe went on further to say:After 1994/1995 there was a changing of the guard in both fiction and games, so things may have been less coordinated after that, until the WotC buyout. And the official WotC policy has never really been made public. But from at least 1988 to the mid-90s, the coordination between books and games was tight and the books were "official" releases.Cheers,James Lowder"</blockquote>

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