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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EscherEnigma" data-source="post: 8113534" data-attributes="member: 6750014">The only setting that WotC has published where they've bothered with keeping a metaplot going is Forgotten Realms.  All the others they've shrugged and said "don't worry about it".And Forgotten Realms has a pretty stable tradition for explaining new stuff in a new edition: they have a whacky magical apocalypse and when they came out the other side, stuff was different.None of the other settings (in the WotC-era) do that.  The closest you get is how they ignored the meta-plot and "canon" of the Dark Sun stuff to give the 4e setting a nice clean start point.  If they update it to 5e I imagine they'll do the same, just as with Eberron they haven't bothered with meta-plots or canon.Heck, their newest settings?  Don't have a timeline at all.  If you read the Theros book there were some mentions of the events in the books, but they never gave a year for the setting, they give no firm timelines... the setting, as published, doesn't expect that you're keeping up on your favorite characters from the books.  I haven't looked at Ravnica yet, but I imagine it's the same.So... yeah.  I think you're offering a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.  The only currently published settings that have "canon" are Forgotten Realms (which has a tradition for how they handle new editions) and possibly Wildemount.  I don't know, if they ever update that to a hypothetical 6th edition will probably depend on if Critical Role is still popular.  But if they do, it would be based on Mercer's campaign, and not some worlds-spanning meta plot.</blockquote>

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