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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1336894" data-attributes="member: 2205">That's another way to handle it, but it's got it's problems too.  Namely, that PCs likely know what needs to be done, since it's already been done by the NPC heroes of the books!  As I said earlier, that will eventually be a proscripted way to play (now that we've finished playing Dragons of Winter Night we can move onto replacing Tanis and Co. in Dragons of Spring Dawning) or you diverge into an alternate version of the setting that eventually bears little resemblance to the setting as published.It's unfortunate, in a way, that the novels were so successful and that the setting resolves so much around them.  Or, from another perspective, it's unfortunate that the novels are so epic in scope that all of the major, setting-changing things that could happen already did.  There's still not really a good way to work around that without changing something about the setting that makes it appealing in the first place.</blockquote>