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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ProgBard" data-source="post: 7012955" data-attributes="member: 6803722">(I talked about this a bit over on the "Lore isn't rules" thread, as fair warning to anyone who's been there and isn't interested in watching me do my "Let me tell you about my campaign!" spiel twice.)My home game is set in 1501 DR, on an alt-history timeline where the Spellplague didn't happen.* This lets me establish a lore baseline (as I like to describe it, the 3e FRCS is historical canon unless it's more interesting if it isn't) while still filling in more recent history with my own, less map-bolloxing events. Among other things, I used this conceit to end the dynasty of the Obarskyrs on Cormyr, remove the Night Kings from Westgate, and turn the Pirate Isles into a nascent Republic.It's also a place that is heavily connected to and influenced by the greater Multiverse; I'm riffing on a lot of Planescape stuff in the cosmos-at-large, so the PCs have already done some plane-hopping (including a memorable jaunt with PF's Cayden Caillean himself through what might, or might not, have been an odd corner of the Feywild) and encountered planar travelers and references to non-Faerunian pantheons. For good or ill, I'm a kitchen-sink kinda guy, and I love being able to have that big palette to draw from.My exposure to the novels is limited, so I've drawn on almost none of that directly. Though I do like Elminster quite a lot, who has made a couple of cameos, mostly because it's too much fun to do the Nicol-Williamson-as-Merlin voice that Ed recommends for him. But he's pretty detached and enigmatic and he's absolutely not going to save the party's bacon in any direct way. Indeed, now that they're up to their knees in a cosmic-horror Toril-threatening conflict and wondering idly if mabe El's around to lend a hand, I had their own patron respond, "The Sage of Shadowdale has quite enough on his mind at the moment. Or did you think this was the only threat to the Realms? That Orcus and Tiamat and Bane have gone off to lick their wounds while you dealt with this? I assure you they have not."*Although, since if there's a way to have things both ways I'm sure to find it, the potential Spellplague, or maybe the fact of its happening in another timeline, has had a subtle ripple effect on this one. At one point, my players found a letter** that opened like this: **I am also, for better or worse, a Props DM.</blockquote>

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