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

[Necropolitan]

Why interpret it as non-literal,

Because the context and wording makes it obvious.

It's specifically saying that a DM's version isn't/doesn't have to be the same as the official one.

 

[Parmandur]

Because the context and wording makes it obvious.

It's specifically saying that a DM's version isn't/doesn't have to be the same as the official one.

It says there are alternate universe of the Forgotten Realms: canon in the era of the First World is more explicitly that of a branching multiverse, so it makes the most sense to read this as literal especially given the context and wording.

 

[Necropolitan]

It says there are alternate universe of the Forgotten Realms: canon in the era of the First World is more explicitly that of a branching multiverse, so it makes the most sense to read this as literal especially given the context and wording.

It doesn't say that.

It's addressed at DMs and it's explaining that their version of the setting is their version and not the official version.

 

[Parmandur]

It doesn't say that.

It's addressed at DMs and it's explaining that their version of the setting is their version and not the official version.

Sure, because if being in an alternate universe, within the context of an continued emphasis on a D&D multiverse.

 

[Necropolitan]

Sure, because if being in an alternate universe, within the context of an continued emphasis on a D&D multiverse.

It's clearly not being literal, it's describing things in a way that's easy for DMs to understand.

Describing the Earth's core as being "like an egg's yolk" doesn't mean the Earth is going to hatch into a baby bird.

 

[Parmandur]

It's clearly not being literal, it's describing things in a way that's easy for DMs to understand.

Describing the Earth's core as being "like an egg's yolk" doesn't mean the Earth is going to hatch into a baby bird.

I see nonreason to take it non-literally, given that 5E has always emphasized D&D as a Multiverse. You can say it is juat a metaphor, but that is juat one interpretation, one I find exceedingly unlikely, especially since that book is written by the same guy wrote Fizban's and the new DMG, James Wyatt.

 

[Necropolitan]

I see nonreason to take it non-literally, given that 5E has always emphasized D&D as a Multiverse. You can say it is juat a metaphor, but that is juat one interpretation, one I find exceedingly unlikely, especially since that book is written by the same guy wrote Fizban's and the new DMG, James Wyatt.

The wording is incredibly specific which given the context makes the meaning clear.

 

[Parmandur]

The wording is incredibly specific which given the context makes the meaning clear.

Yet the same writer is the one who has advanced the infinite muktivers consistently since then, with the idea of the First World and Echoes that include stuff in the Forgotten Realms.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

None of the previous Forgotten Realms plots involved time travel or the multiverse in the sense of there being multiple versions of the Forgotten Realms and every other change I mentioned was recent.

I consider recent to be last year maybe two. I for sure don’t count stuff from a decade ago.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

It doesn't say that.

It's addressed at DMs and it's explaining that their version of the setting is their version and not the official version.

No it said mirror universe, and we have tons of other examples of this stuff.

You are basically just going “nah I don’t believe you and all this history cause I don’t like it”