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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seankreynolds" data-source="post: 1789310" data-attributes="member: 3029">I dunno, it went on sale after I left WotC. Clearly WotC is still supporting FR, so....I agree that it's a radical change, disagree that the planes are integral to the setting. Plane-hopping may be the norm for higher-level campaigns, but just as most of the campaigns we heard about were centered in Faerun (particularly Waterdeep, Cormyr, and the Dales), almost none of them went to the planes. The FRCS team felt that the focus of an FR campaign was the _Realms_, not the planes, and chose to rework the planes into something that was made for FR (rather than something made for Greyhawk twenty years earlier with a different campaign archetype based on Law vs. Chaos inspired by Moorcock novels, and FR forced to cram itself to fit that planar model because of the dictates of TSR's owner Lorraine Williams).That's not a _problem_ of the tree model ... it was done deliberately to explain why FR always had these planar travelers popping up on Toril. FR is a very "Swiss cheese" material plane, with many many portals, and if it's easier to go from A to B without passing through Toril, why is there so much planar traffic on Toril?Not true, actually. If a common member of the Purple Dragons is knighted, he doesn't instantly gain a level in the prestige class. If a person is given an honorary knighthood in the Purple Dragons, he doesn't instantly gain a level in the prestige class. You have to distinguish between the D&D term Purple Dragon Knight and the Cormyrian term Knight of the Purple Dragon. The former is a game mechanic and involves levels in a certain prestige class. The latter is a matter of status that carries no supernatural powers or game mechanics.</blockquote>

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