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

[Necropolitan]

No evidence against it exists either, but more than that, it is explicitly canon at this point, though it can be easily inferred from 80s canon.

It's not canon.

Elminster 333 isn't going to portal into Elminster 616's study to try to get aid against 333's giant baby skeleton Szass Tam's plan to eat all the other wizards which 333's female Manshoon is supporting for some reason.

 

[Parmandur]

It's not canon.

Elminster 333 isn't going to portal into Elminster 616's study to try to get aid against 333's giant baby skeleton Szass Tam's plan to eat all the other wizards which 333's female Manshoon is supporting for some reason.

I mean, sounds like a legitimate Realms plot to me, frankly.

And Fizban's and the DMG establish the concept of Multiverse echoes, so multiple Elminsters, Tams or Manshoons are certainly on the table.

And canon is determined by WotC, they own the Setting. If they go multiverse, which is well rooted in D&D...then that is canon.

 

[Necropolitan]

I mean, sounds like a legitimate Realms plot to me, frankly.

And Fizban's and the DMG establish the concept of Multiverse echoes, so multiple Elminsters, Tams or Manshoons are certainly on the table.

And canon is determined by WotC, they own the Setting. If they go multiverse, which is well rooted in D&D...then that is canon.

No actual evidence for The Forgotten Realms and WOTC hasn't said there is.

If they do it'll be yet another bad choice they've made.

 

[Parmandur]

No actual evidence for The Forgotten Realms and WOTC hasn't said there is.

If they do it'll be yet another bad choice they've made.

It's in the DMG.

 

[Necropolitan]

It's in the DMG.

Different settings have different rules.

 

[gban007]

Different settings have different rules.

Dmg 2014, calling forgotten realms out by name:

Even if you’re using an established world such as the Forgotten Realms, your campaign takes place in a sort of mirror universe of the official setting where Forgotten Realms novels, game products, and digital games are assumed to take place. The world is yours to change as you see fit and yours to modify as you explore the consequences of the players’ actions.

 

[Necropolitan]

Dmg 2014, calling forgotten realms out by name:

Even if you’re using an established world such as the Forgotten Realms, your campaign takes place in a sort of mirror universe of the official setting where Forgotten Realms novels, game products, and digital games are assumed to take place. The world is yours to change as you see fit and yours to modify as you explore the consequences of the players’ actions.

That's very clearly saying DMs can do what they want with the setting, not that it's canon that there's a multiverse with an infinite number of Forgotten Realms.

 

[Parmandur]

Different settings have different rules.

Not really, unless you want yours to. Eberron and FR are both part of the Infinite branching D&D multiverse, in the corr books.

That's very clearly saying DMs can do what they want with the setting, not that it's canon that there's a multiverse with an infinite number of Forgotten Realms.

Nope, it says a mirror universe, and as established infinite branching universe in what is called a multiverse goes back to the beginning of D&D.

Your personal table version of the FR may not be part of a branching universe, but that doesnhave any bearing on canon.

 

[Necropolitan]

Nope, it says a mirror universe, and as established infinite branching universe in what is called a multiverse goes back to the beginning of D&D.

Your personal table version of the FR may not be part of a branching universe, but that doesnhave any bearing on canon.

It's very clearly making an analogy to let DMs know they don't have to have things exactly the same, it's not being literal.

Also the fact it mentions an "Official Setting" is more evidence for my point.

There's an official version and it's not a multiverse.

 

[Parmandur]

It's very clearly making an analogy to let DMs know they don't have to have things exactly the same, it's not being literal.

Also the fact it mentions an "Official Setting" is more evidence for my point.

There's an official version and it's not a multiverse.

Why interpret it as non-literal, when historically D&D has used BTW ching multiverse stuff, ala Nine Princes of Amber and DC Comics, and co tiniest to do so to this day...? The official FR is part of the branching First World multiverse now, allowing for infinite versions to coexist in the metaplot.