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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9720029" data-attributes="member: 6779196">I don’t find the existing lore boring, I just don’t know the existing lore. And don’t really care to, because Forgotten Realms is too massive and bloated to be accessible even if I was interested in it as a setting. Mostly, the name “purple dragon knight” conjures the mental image of a knight either riding or trying to slay a purple dragon. And that sounds cool and interesting, but then the subclass doesn’t live up to that image. It’s just an incredibly generic knight, with no dragon-related features at all, let alone purple ones.I understand that the purple dragon knights have never been dragon riders in the lore, but the thing about setting lore is that it can, and should, evolve. Just because they have never ridden purple dragons in the past doesn’t mean there couldn’t be some new novel or adventure module in which the events lead to the purple dragon nights starting to actually ride purple dragons.This refusal to accept anything new in old settings is what that still active “the conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting” thread is about. Stodgy grognards too dedicated to these settings as they were decades ago, and throwing a fit every time moves are made towards allowing the settings to evolve from that point. The existing lore doesn’t have to change for purple dragon knights to start riding purple dragons in the current era of the realms. Indeed, the art that has been shown makes it look like that’s happening anyway, so all this complaining about “muh lore” has accomplished is making a subclass more mechanically generic. The lore is still evolving in the same direction.</blockquote>

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