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<blockquote data-quote="machineelf" data-source="post: 7051284" data-attributes="member: 6774924">Well, the elf NPCs and other long-lived races are still around. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> But yeah, a lot of classic human and other NPCs from across Faerun are gone. And I liked Mirt the Moneylender, Khelben Blackstaff, and others.I don't think that just because books are written that alter the campaign universe, that that means the campaign universe in which table-top role-players play in has to be changed to match the books. I see no problem with having the books branch off an alternate reality of the Forgotten Realms, but the playable campaign setting always starts in a certain year with a certain history, so that your own campaign universe can branch off in whatever direction you and your players determine. When they force the campaign setting to drastically change along with the books, they run into the problem we have now.I would love them to reset the Realms back to 1369 or 1372 DR, and publish all-new modules that expand (not change) the old ones, so that all of Faerun is covered and we get all-new maps of every region. That will never, ever happen, so instead I just collect the classic modules and maps, and my Realms always start in the summer of 1372 DR.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="machineelf, post: 7051284, member: 6774924"] Well, the elf NPCs and other long-lived races are still around. ;) But yeah, a lot of classic human and other NPCs from across Faerun are gone. And I liked Mirt the Moneylender, Khelben Blackstaff, and others. I don't think that just because books are written that alter the campaign universe, that that means the campaign universe in which table-top role-players play in has to be changed to match the books. I see no problem with having the books branch off an alternate reality of the Forgotten Realms, but the playable campaign setting always starts in a certain year with a certain history, so that your own campaign universe can branch off in whatever direction you and your players determine. When they force the campaign setting to drastically change along with the books, they run into the problem we have now. I would love them to reset the Realms back to 1369 or 1372 DR, and publish all-new modules that expand (not change) the old ones, so that all of Faerun is covered and we get all-new maps of every region. That will never, ever happen, so instead I just collect the classic modules and maps, and my Realms always start in the summer of 1372 DR. [/QUOTE]

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