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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 9722157" data-attributes="member: 7635">I keep feeling that there is a story we're not seeing because it's in the Forgotten Realms Adventure Guide, not the Player Guide and while the lore is linked, we're not supposed to be playtesting the lore. WotC wanted to know if the subclass fit the fantasy of a chivalrous knight and his dragon steed. They didn't give a flying fig if the fantasy of a chivalrous knight and his dragon steed fit the prior lore of the Purple Dragon Knight because their is probably a decent explanation of why the two are now linked. Or maybe they don't, but it doesn't matter because they spent a whole chapter in the FRAG describing PDKs with amethyst dragons and they aren't rewriting it because of a poorly received UA. What WotC asked was "does this dragon knight do it for you?" Not "does this dragon knight align with the established lore of the PDK?" So when people told them that the lore made no sense, WotC heard "no, we don't want a dragon knight, we want a diet coke warlord instead". WotC isn't going to learn the "don't mess with established lore" lesson, or they would have after after Ravenloft, Spelljammer, Eberron and now the Realms have all messed with the established lore. They're going to learn "people don't want cool dragon riders, they want warlord knockoffs".</blockquote>