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

[mellored]

The default is just that: default. It itself means nothing because nothing remains the default once play has begun. TSR used to try to have one correct "cannon" version of events and it ruined gameplay because it shackles the DM and players into events playing out a certain way. Lord Neverember can never be replaced by a PC because the books says he's still Mayor. The players cannot kill Artemis because he's important to the next Drizzt novel. Silverymoon will not be destroyed no matter how badly the PCs fail. The world cannot change from the default.

That's where the multiverse comes into play.

Lord Neverember is dead in this universe, but alive in another.

 

[Parmandur]

That's where the multiverse comes into play.

Lord Neverember is dead in this universe, but alive in another.

And in another, he's an anthropomorphic pig.

 

[mellored]

And in another, he's an anthropomorphic pig.

Lord Neverhamber

 

[QuentinGeorge]

It doesn't need to affect your campaign at all. You can easily ignore it.

It adds in unnecessary fluff that taints actual products I might want to use and it causes issues in campaign settings that were never intended to be connected be connected in ways that damage the underlying themes of the setting

 

[QuentinGeorge]

MY game, MY Realms. Or do you believe that only the one in the WotC book is One True Realms and no one should deviate from it?

I could make Drizzt a fairy dragon that explodes into a shower of confetti when he laughs or turn Elminster into the name of a sentient garbage dump, what does that have to do with anything about the setting? It doesn't need the setting designers to indulge my own creations, I can do that myself. It has no bearing on any published book.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

Lord Neverhamber

No Nut Neverember

 

[Necropolitan]

D&D started off as DC & Marvel, literally copying the art. Hell, the Forgotten Realms was literally a DC Comic book line.

D&D should not become DC or Marvel where it's impossible to kill off established characters permanently.

Sammaster should stay dead.

It'd be one thing if WOTC did what they did with Lord Soth where you're having adventures during times he was alive/undead, but bringing characters back after their final deaths cheapens them.

 

[Parmandur]

Sammaster should stay dead.

It'd be one thing if WOTC did what they did with Lord Soth where you're having adventures during times he was alive/undead, but bringing characters back after their final deaths cheapens them.

We are talking about a product set that includes a time travel campaign.

 

[Necropolitan]

D&D started off as DC & Marvel, literally copying the art. Hell, the Forgotten Realms was literally a DC Comic book line.

D&D should not become DC or Marvel where it's impossible to kill off established characters permanently.

We are talking about a product set that includes a time travel campaign.

It'd be one thing if WOTC did what they did with Lord Soth where you're having adventures during times he was alive/undead

 

[Parmandur]

Really not clear to me why this would be a change: D&D and the Forgotten Realms have always been at thst comic b9ok level, that's part of the fun.