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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahwe Yahzhe" data-source="post: 5996255" data-attributes="member: 55229">You (correctly) got that impression because of the damage they did with the 100-year timeline jump. WotC knows it was a mistake to break the world continuity and pick up 100 years later with, "the Spellplague was really, really bad, guys, so the Forgotten Realms is now a Points-of-Light world." The only thing worse than continuing with this non-FR campaign world would be to run the "it never happened" retcon/reboot. So we get one more RSE moving forward in the timeline to put back the pieces which will include filling in the 100-year-long blanks, and THEN we can agree to never talk about that 100-year gap where apparently nothing much happened after the Day of Mourning- I mean, the Spellplague. Especially when compared to the 100-year gap, the Spellplague itself wasn't that much worse than other RSEs. Sure, the entire southern half of Faerun gets blown up or submerged (Halruaa, The Great Rift, Chult, etc.) and only a short list of deities (mostly 4e Core Deities or their stand-ins) survive mass deicide by committee. But earth motes were vaguely interesting, Returned Abeir was great, and real-world remnants of ancient egypt/greece/babylon got replaced by Dragonbornland. LFR and a handful of Dragon articles also did a good job trying to fill in some blanks in more popular areas like Waterdeep, the North, and the Heartlands. Neverwinter was also a pretty good campaign product, given the mandated Points-of-Light storyline. So I agree, it's not "retconning" when you move the timeline forward AND fill in some of the gaping 100-year holes in history. I hope this is what Ed Greenwood and company are working on right now. (I really hope Brian R. James is involved, too.)</blockquote>

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