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Points of Light setting and current cross-over strategy: Round peg in the square hole.
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<blockquote data-quote="Corpsetaker" data-source="post: 6996568" data-attributes="member: 6776548"><p>I see where you are trying to go but I'm afraid you aren't fully correct. </p><p></p><p>1: That little part near the end there was what I've dubbed through the years as "homebrew disclaimer". If you have been around D&D products long enough you will know that they like to remind people that it's okay to add things to your home games. Some people feel like they need to stick with the cannon and sometimes they liked to remind us that it is okay to use whatever you want. Unfortunately this is not cannon. It was also a small form of advertising of the other D&D worlds. They were letting people know that using more than one world is okay. </p><p></p><p>2: Co-existing primes are still prime material planes that exist with in the Forgotten Realms sphere. Oerth (Greyhawk) doesn't exist with in the same sphere is not an alternate prime material plane. Something came up years ago about this when a question was asked to Ed Greenwood about Lolth. They asked if the Lolth on Oerth had any connection with the Lolth in Forgotten Realms. The response to that was no. It was said they are completely separate entities that had nothing to do with each other. Now if these worlds co-existed why wouldn't there be one Lolth who has extended her power across these alternate worlds? </p><p></p><p>3: I have all FR products from 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th edition. None of the official products mention anything about Oerth, Krynn, Darksun, or Mystara. If these worlds co-existed in cannon then we would see some evidence in 30+ years of gaming material. The only thing we have is an older Dragon mag article about Elminster having a get together with Mord and Dalamar and that wasn't even written by Ed Greenwood. </p><p></p><p>4: When the Forgotten Realms was created there was no such things as Oerth or any other published D&D world, D&D wasn't even invented yet. </p><p></p><p>You are basing your argument off of a homebrew disclaimer that is found in many books where it just reminds you that it's okay to add stuff outside the cannon into your home games. It sounds a little like you might be a bit of a Wiz fan and are trying to justify their crossover strategy by making it seem like the Realms has always been built around these other published D&D worlds when it hasn't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Corpsetaker, post: 6996568, member: 6776548"] I see where you are trying to go but I'm afraid you aren't fully correct. 1: That little part near the end there was what I've dubbed through the years as "homebrew disclaimer". If you have been around D&D products long enough you will know that they like to remind people that it's okay to add things to your home games. Some people feel like they need to stick with the cannon and sometimes they liked to remind us that it is okay to use whatever you want. Unfortunately this is not cannon. It was also a small form of advertising of the other D&D worlds. They were letting people know that using more than one world is okay. 2: Co-existing primes are still prime material planes that exist with in the Forgotten Realms sphere. Oerth (Greyhawk) doesn't exist with in the same sphere is not an alternate prime material plane. Something came up years ago about this when a question was asked to Ed Greenwood about Lolth. They asked if the Lolth on Oerth had any connection with the Lolth in Forgotten Realms. The response to that was no. It was said they are completely separate entities that had nothing to do with each other. Now if these worlds co-existed why wouldn't there be one Lolth who has extended her power across these alternate worlds? 3: I have all FR products from 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th edition. None of the official products mention anything about Oerth, Krynn, Darksun, or Mystara. If these worlds co-existed in cannon then we would see some evidence in 30+ years of gaming material. The only thing we have is an older Dragon mag article about Elminster having a get together with Mord and Dalamar and that wasn't even written by Ed Greenwood. 4: When the Forgotten Realms was created there was no such things as Oerth or any other published D&D world, D&D wasn't even invented yet. You are basing your argument off of a homebrew disclaimer that is found in many books where it just reminds you that it's okay to add stuff outside the cannon into your home games. It sounds a little like you might be a bit of a Wiz fan and are trying to justify their crossover strategy by making it seem like the Realms has always been built around these other published D&D worlds when it hasn't. [/QUOTE]
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