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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oni" data-source="post: 4866491" data-attributes="member: 380">The thread about a 4e Greyhawk got me to thinking about which is more important to preserve, the continuity and canon or the feel of a setting.  It made me wonder if the 4E Forgotten Realms might not have been better accepted if they had taken a different approach.  They advanced the timeline so far as to relieve the burden of canon and yet still maintain it, while simultaneously making sweeping changes through huge world changing events to remold the setting to account for the idiosyncrasies of the new rules set.  What if, instead, they had chosen to reimagine the setting to fit 4E, simply throwing out the canon that isn't to be specifically reincorporated and attempting to recreate the feel of the previous iterations, in essence attempt boil it down to what makes the Forgotten Realm, the Forgotten Realms.  So say, instead of creating a world shaking event to include dragonborn, just treat it as a fresh start and write them in as through it were a new campaign setting without it having to go through some traumatic happening.  Rather than killing off NPC's, change their level to make them less overshadowing, that sort of thing.  So in short, which is a better way of handling a setting when editions change?  Advance the timeline with events accounting for changes, or reimagine it to conform to new rules while trying to maintain the general shape of what came before?Reading my post I'm not sure, I'm being entirely clear but hopefully the general idea will get across.</blockquote>

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