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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dm4hire" data-source="post: 4451215" data-attributes="member: 14848">Exactly my point when I talked about going back in time.  FR for example has several points in its history that list Epochs of 10,000+ years each that you could place a new related setting within.  You have the time of the Dragons or even the different eras of the Elven kingdoms before or after the fall of the Drow.  If you place the setting toward the beginning of a given time period with so much time still left anything could have happened and history could still turn out the same because we're talking about tens of thousands of years in the past.  Who's to say that during the time of the Dragons that there weren't human or humanoid kingdoms that were beneath their notice or existed because of their allegiance.  Anything could happen and you really can't dispute it because all records were lost over time.  If memory serves correctly I believe there has been mention of ruins within FR that no one is certain who built them; where did they come from?FR aside, there are the same type of epochs in other settings with enough time from beginning to end that they could be used.  Dragonlance could be rolled back to before the first cataclysm.  Greyhawk has periods of time.  Dark Sun has already been covered.  Even Eberron could be rolled back to during the war or even well before the great war.  A lot of possiblities which won't ruin the settings that have already been released.</blockquote>

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