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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primal" data-source="post: 4914961" data-attributes="member: 30678">I never cared much for RSEs, especially at the rate they were introduced to increase the novel sales. Most of them didn't happen in my campaigns, although some (such as the 'Rage of Dragons') may yet take place in the future. BTW, RSEs didn't happen often until 3E rolled out; ToT is the only one I can think of during the AD&D era. What are you referring by "natural selection"? Decreased sales? I'm not even sure if they *had* decreased dramatically; that was just an assumption on my part (GHotR, at least, did very well).   Well, first of all, I don't think FR is a purely medieval setting; FR has gunpowder, magic and more advanced technology than anything in the middle ages, so I'd call it "pseudo-medieval" if anything. Ed Greenwood himself has said that one of his own possible futures for the Realms was that in a hundred years or so the setting would roll "fully" into Renaissance (resulting in a technologically, magically and culturally different FR).  As for the changes... if I remember correctly, quite a many of the smaller settlements were wiped out by the rampaging Spellplague, and only areas with powerful magical protections remained (mostly) untouched. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I recall that a great many new settlements were founded in the Western Heartlands and the North. Some cities, like Waterdeep and Baldur's Gate (both of which were mostly untouched, BTW), still saw radical changes in the architecture and layout.     Alright, all the events was hyperbole, but the fact remains that we have written descriptions of many major events from the last two thousand years, and much more was lost when civilizations fell (or libraries were burned/sacked). In FR, literacy is much, much more common than it was in medieval times and there are deities, priesthoods and organizations dedicated to keeping accurate records and histories, so I have to wonder why nobody would have bothered to write about events of the "hundred year gap".</blockquote>

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