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<blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8817760" data-attributes="member: 7023887"><p>And your problem with that change isn't metaplots. It's the small amount of stories that have been coming out. Luckily, we're getting quite a few in the next few years (the ones for the movie, the rest of the Dragonlance trilogy, isn't there another Drizzt book?). </p><p></p><p>I don't need my table's experience to be shared by another table. The fun at my table is where I get the enjoyment from the game, not from other people at other tables having the same experience. </p><p></p><p>Eberron has been in perpetual status time-wise, but has gotten tons of expansions through the decades. Keith Baker has his blog, the dozens of Eberron books (none of which have advanced the timeline), the novels (which also don't advance the timelines), and so on. I've done a ton of research for Eberron over the past 4ish years, but none of that has been dependent on the setting having a metaplot. And the world still grows as time goes by. </p><p></p><p>My point is that the things you think you like metaplots for aren't actually dependent on metaplots. You don't need them for the stories, or research, or for a continuous timeline at your table. Unless your fun is dependent on other people around the world understanding what happens at your table, there's no reason to like metaplots over the Eberron approach (note: I don't mean the setting, you don't have to enjoy the setting Eberron in order to admit that it's approach to canon is superior to the 2e metaplot approach).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Levistus's_Leviathan, post: 8817760, member: 7023887"] And your problem with that change isn't metaplots. It's the small amount of stories that have been coming out. Luckily, we're getting quite a few in the next few years (the ones for the movie, the rest of the Dragonlance trilogy, isn't there another Drizzt book?). I don't need my table's experience to be shared by another table. The fun at my table is where I get the enjoyment from the game, not from other people at other tables having the same experience. Eberron has been in perpetual status time-wise, but has gotten tons of expansions through the decades. Keith Baker has his blog, the dozens of Eberron books (none of which have advanced the timeline), the novels (which also don't advance the timelines), and so on. I've done a ton of research for Eberron over the past 4ish years, but none of that has been dependent on the setting having a metaplot. And the world still grows as time goes by. My point is that the things you think you like metaplots for aren't actually dependent on metaplots. You don't need them for the stories, or research, or for a continuous timeline at your table. Unless your fun is dependent on other people around the world understanding what happens at your table, there's no reason to like metaplots over the Eberron approach (note: I don't mean the setting, you don't have to enjoy the setting Eberron in order to admit that it's approach to canon is superior to the 2e metaplot approach). [/QUOTE]
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