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<blockquote data-quote="Elodan" data-source="post: 3941816" data-attributes="member: 8006">Your friend is spot on when it comes to how I have been feeling about the Realms lately.&nbsp; I used to like that the novels affected the setting.&nbsp; They made the world feel more &quot;alive.&quot;&nbsp; Things were happening outside of what the PCs were doing.&nbsp; The problem comes when I decide to ignore some event or events in the novels.&nbsp; The next product released where those events took place incorporate them.&nbsp; This means that sections of these products are now useless to me.&nbsp; Now, events happens as a result of those previous events, and things start to snowball from there.&nbsp; There comes a point where the latest products have too much I don't want to use, so what's the point of using this dynamic world when I end up in the same place with a static setting.&nbsp; Ideally, I would like to see setting supplements based in the same year and separate releases detailing the latest changes to Faerun.I think that making novels canon has led to the majority of the &quot;perceived&quot; problems with the setting and I don't see that problem going away unless they un-canon the novels.I'm willing to see what Rich and the team come up with.&nbsp; If it's good I'll likely buy the basic books but not much else.&nbsp; If I go with a more static setting like Eberron (and I'm thinking of making the switch), I expect to get more use out of the supplements and can steal novel ideas without worry about them overwriting &quot;canon&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elodan, post: 3941816, member: 8006"] Your friend is spot on when it comes to how I have been feeling about the Realms lately. I used to like that the novels affected the setting. They made the world feel more "alive." Things were happening outside of what the PCs were doing. The problem comes when I decide to ignore some event or events in the novels. The next product released where those events took place incorporate them. This means that sections of these products are now useless to me. Now, events happens as a result of those previous events, and things start to snowball from there. There comes a point where the latest products have too much I don't want to use, so what's the point of using this dynamic world when I end up in the same place with a static setting. Ideally, I would like to see setting supplements based in the same year and separate releases detailing the latest changes to Faerun. I think that making novels canon has led to the majority of the "perceived" problems with the setting and I don't see that problem going away unless they un-canon the novels. I'm willing to see what Rich and the team come up with. If it's good I'll likely buy the basic books but not much else. If I go with a more static setting like Eberron (and I'm thinking of making the switch), I expect to get more use out of the supplements and can steal novel ideas without worry about them overwriting "canon". [/QUOTE]

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