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<blockquote data-quote="Ilbranteloth" data-source="post: 6573647" data-attributes="member: 6778044">The Adventurer's League places Tyranny of Dragons in 1489.I think they are deliberately downplaying the pub talk and such right now because I don't think they've finalized all of the changes yet. It seems pretty clear that they will be releasing a campaign guide (I'm guessing next year, but it could be late this year). But I think they will be be going through the D&amp;D Next results, the results from these two Adventure Paths, plus the work from Greenwood, Salvatore and others.Of course, there are other factors. Ed Greenwood mentioned in an interview that although The Herald was largely supposed to wrap things up and pull things together, the deadlines meant that the prior novels in the series weren't finished (not even drafts) early enough for him to get copies and read what was happening in them. Everything came out of a big brainstorming meeting with the developers and authors so they had a general idea of where things were going, but not specifics.In addition, by downplaying the Sundering as something happening largely off screen it also allows those who are still playing 3.5 to move into the 5th ed Realms and effectively skip the 4th ed changes altogether. If you went from the 3.5 Ed to these adventures you largely wouldn't realize that the 4th ed happened.Between the focus on factions, plus within the adventures themselves (including the AL ones) there is quite a bit of lore you can extrapolate. Ilbranteloth</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ilbranteloth, post: 6573647, member: 6778044"] The Adventurer's League places [I]Tyranny of Dragons[/I] in 1489. I think they are deliberately downplaying the pub talk and such right now because I don't think they've finalized all of the changes yet. It seems pretty clear that they will be releasing a campaign guide (I'm guessing next year, but it could be late this year). But I think they will be be going through the D&D Next results, the results from these two Adventure Paths, plus the work from Greenwood, Salvatore and others. Of course, there are other factors. Ed Greenwood mentioned in an interview that although The Herald was largely supposed to wrap things up and pull things together, the deadlines meant that the prior novels in the series weren't finished (not even drafts) early enough for him to get copies and read what was happening in them. Everything came out of a big brainstorming meeting with the developers and authors so they had a general idea of where things were going, but not specifics. In addition, by downplaying the Sundering as something happening largely off screen it also allows those who are still playing 3.5 to move into the 5th ed Realms and effectively skip the 4th ed changes altogether. If you went from the 3.5 Ed to these adventures you largely wouldn't realize that the 4th ed happened. Between the focus on factions, plus within the adventures themselves (including the AL ones) there is quite a bit of lore you can extrapolate. Ilbranteloth [/QUOTE]

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