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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 7012506" data-attributes="member: 6785785">My starting point is mostly the 3E Forgotten Real Campaign Setting era. I think that's like the 1370s or so? The Time of Troubles was like 20 years prior to my current time, but most of that is simplified and handwaved without worrying about the details of it. I've ignored most of what happened in novels and campaign material that came out after that. So the city of Shade is still floating above the Aunoroch desert, and they play a pretty big part in my campaign. Everything else is a mix of 3E and teh 5E SCAG. Surprisingly, most of the major player type NPCs tend not to show up....I don't bother with Elminster and Drizzt and the like. Luckily, my players aren't very concerned about the Realms as fiction, so they don't even know how much I've changed. Rulers of cities and more traditional NPCs are present, but their role has been minimal so far. Likely will expand going forward. Following events of my campaign, the Elemental Cults have been running rampant for 5 years now, spreading beyond the Dessarin Valley to threaten all the lands beyond. They've grown and expanded and are quite powerful. Only now are the larger settlements beginning to act in opposition to the cults. The Shades are also tightening their grip on trade in the northern region of Faerun, and they are nearly ready to reclaim the lands that were once their empire.</blockquote>