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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faraer" data-source="post: 3929175" data-attributes="member: 6318">This is monoptic one-true-wayism. There's no single ideal density for everyone, because everyone has different preferences for how settings work. For instance this one:Whereas I and many others love the multiplicity, feel it makes for a far more real-seeming world than a pruned one with little going on around the PCs. I think diversity is good, and since Eberron already works this way, it's destructive to just undo all Ed's design of the high-level milieu to make every setting work the same.This is a hard discussion to carry on, though, because of ideas like this -- -- which are simple factual mistakes. Elminster just doesn't do that: Not in the novels, the short stories, or the sourcebooks. He's a retired sage who fosters the Art and tries to influence the Realms by manipulating others. His acts are tightly constrained by his divine obligations and political pacts he's made (as seen in "So High a Price").vagabundo, Ed has done this work more thoroughly than you have any idea of. I appreciate that the information is scattered across a lot of sources, and hasn't always been clearly explained, but it's there, and it's quite consistent. As DM Blake says, they have lives, and we know a good deal about them. Read <a href="http://paizo.com/store/brand/forgottenRealms/roleplayingGames/2ndEdition/v5748btpy7mm7" target="_blank">The Seven Sisters</a>, for instance, which is a wonderful sourcebook that shows much more than its ostensible subject. Is there anything a little more specific I can help you with?No, because the Realms -- even the grossly distorted Realms of the RSEs -- almost never faces literally world-shattering threats. It isn't that kind of setting. It has often suffered less total dangers and catastrophes, and many are readily chronicled in sources like Grand History of the Realms.The mages of Netheril caused at least as much strife as they put down.Interesting observation. But no, Elminster is used there as a semi-comic affectedly world-weary unreliable narrator to encourage the DM to change the material as she wishes. Fallible is exactly what he is -- we're not supposed to take literally either the lore or El's grumblings.</blockquote>

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