D&D (2024) Wargamer Takes Shot At WotC for Not Respecting Forgotten Realms Canon.
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Henadic Theologian
Legend
I agree, but suspect it's already too late, I think they've committed themselves to PKs being one of the new Faerun wide factions and thay it will come up in the Fallbacks: Dealing With Dragons novel.
Ah, that takes me back to the days of Manfred the slightly Ecru.
Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
I mean,they were testing the Fighter mechanics, not the Lore changes.
Henadic Theologian
Legend
I think that is what they planned, how it panned out us very different and they will see that in the feed back, lore matters alot more for setting based subclasses then Core or generic book subclasses and this true for other player options & monsters.
jgsugden
Legend
What is FR Canon at this point?
We had Ed's original campaign setting prior to the first box. We had the first Grey Box. We had the 2E starting revisions. We had the novels. We had the Time of Troubles. We had more novels - and comics! We had 3E materials, 3.5 materials, the Spellplague, 4E materials and then 5E materials. At each flip of the calendar the lore has changed. Some has been inspired by ideas from new leadership. Some by authors. Some by accident. Some through corporate agendas. There is so much stuff out there - and so much of it contradicts, rewrites or invalidates other parts that it might as well be Star Wars Episodes VII to IX. There are so many disagreements, retcons and errors that there really isn't a single canon. It isn't even close. It is a fuzzy mess - and has been for decades.
Those that love the FR and have memorized more lore than there is in Candlekeep may not find that satisfactory ... but you should all be able to see there is significant truth to it. Being upset about these revisions is about the same as being mad that someone backed over your gerbil again. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube, my friends.
In the end you're better off approaching it like I do: As inspiration. When I run the FR, I use the Grey Box setting as a reference point - and I modify it to fit my tastes. Some of those modifications are taken from later FR resources - but in the end it is my setting.
Well, not just my setting. My players make real impacts on the setting, and thus it changes from the provided lore... and to respect that, I can't even try to be 'true' to the official canon.
We had Ed's original campaign setting prior to the first box. We had the first Grey Box. We had the 2E starting revisions. We had the novels. We had the Time of Troubles. We had more novels - and comics! We had 3E materials, 3.5 materials, the Spellplague, 4E materials and then 5E materials. At each flip of the calendar the lore has changed. Some has been inspired by ideas from new leadership. Some by authors. Some by accident. Some through corporate agendas. There is so much stuff out there - and so much of it contradicts, rewrites or invalidates other parts that it might as well be Star Wars Episodes VII to IX. There are so many disagreements, retcons and errors that there really isn't a single canon. It isn't even close. It is a fuzzy mess - and has been for decades.
Those that love the FR and have memorized more lore than there is in Candlekeep may not find that satisfactory ... but you should all be able to see there is significant truth to it. Being upset about these revisions is about the same as being mad that someone backed over your gerbil again. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube, my friends.
In the end you're better off approaching it like I do: As inspiration. When I run the FR, I use the Grey Box setting as a reference point - and I modify it to fit my tastes. Some of those modifications are taken from later FR resources - but in the end it is my setting.
Well, not just my setting. My players make real impacts on the setting, and thus it changes from the provided lore... and to respect that, I can't even try to be 'true' to the official canon.
Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
Is it very different, though...? Haven't seen much indication that WotC is phased by some online chatter. Wouldn't surprise me to hear the feedback has been largely positive.
Henadic Theologian
Legend
Wouldn't surprise me if the feedback was largely or partially negative.
Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
We'll see: rather doubt thst forum spaces are representative one way or another.
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