D&D General The Purple Dragon Knights are tied to an Amethyst Dragon (confirmed)

[TwoSix]

Its a shared setting, to a very large number of people that is part of the appeal. Elminister is an old wizard dude, hes not a teenage halfling girl.

Considering Elminster is a super-powerful wizard, I think his actual physical form is mostly a suggestion.

 

[Scribe]

Considering Elminster is a super-powerful wizard, I think his actual physical form is mostly a suggestion.

Sure man, and Drizzt is secretly a cold blooded serial killer, while Minsc actually smuggles miniature giant space hamsters across the multiverse for profit.

Yay multiverse!

 

[TwoSix]

Sure man, and Drizzt is secretly a cold blooded serial killer, while Minsc actually smuggles miniature giant space hamsters across the multiverse for profit.

Yay multiverse!

"Drizzt actually being evil" was absolutely a plot point I was already planning for my next game well before this thread started.

 

[Scribe]

"Drizzt actually being evil" was absolutely a plot point I was already planning for my next game well before this thread started.

Cool, I'm sure it will align with the next official release of setting material.

 

[TwoSix]

Cool, I'm sure it will align with the next official release of setting material.

That would be boring. I hope they pick an as-of-yet undiscussed third option.

 

[Remathilis]

You can do whatever you want, but that doesnt mean that an official Character factually is whatever you choose to anyone but yourself.

Its a shared setting, to a very large number of people that is part of the appeal. Elminister is an old wizard dude, hes not a teenage halfling girl.

My point is that if you sit down to my table and that group discovers people are being murdered by a dark elf with two scimitars, you don't have the right to declare my game invalid because "that's not who Drizzt is, you're not playing the REAL Forgotten Realms!" My version is a as valid as the official.

A more realistic example. What if one of my players, though gameplay, becomes the Lord Mayor of Neverwinter? Does my game no longer remain valid because in everyone else knows Neverember is really the mayor? What if the villain's plot works and Silverymoon is reduced to a crater? Is my game no longer official? What about if a violent plague wipes out every dragonborn in Faerun? Still official? Are you going to sit there and argue "but the books say Neverember is mayor, Silverymoon exists, and dragonborn aren't extinct. You're playing wrong?"

That's what I'm arguing about. My interpretation of the Realms is still ac valid interpretation. So is yours. You can even use interplanar shenanigans to travel from yours to mine if you want. Mine doesn't stop being valid because it deviates from the book. Hell, Ed Greenwood's Faerun deviates from the book. You going to tell him his version of the Realms isn't valid?

 

[Scribe]

That would be boring. I hope they pick an as-of-yet undiscussed third option.

Oh oh, maybe Baldurs Gate actually shifts to the Astral, and is replaced with a nesting site of flumphs!

Minsc then starts trafficking the flumph children with Drizzt, all paying Karlach, the male Orc, who is raising an army to fight Elminster who has an army of child soldiers.

Multiverse!

 

[TwoSix]

Oh oh, maybe Baldurs Gate actually shifts to the Astral, and is replaced with a nesting site of flumphs!

Minsc then starts trafficking the flumph children with Drizzt, all paying Karlach, the male Orc, who is raising an army to fight Elminster who has an army of child soldiers.

Multiverse!

I don't remember posting my campaign notes online. Did you break into my house?

 

[Scribe]

I don't remember posting my campaign notes online. Did you break into my house?

Great minds, of course.

 

[Scribe]

My point is that if you sit down to my table and that group discovers people are being murdered by a dark elf with two scimitars, you don't have the right to declare my game invalid

Agreed.

My version is a as valid as the official.

Disagreed.

While valid, it's only valid at your table. The official version is the default starting point.