Quote from: WarthurActually, IIRC Elminster has a close (one might say "intimate") metaphysical connection with Mystra: anything that offs her is probably going to get him, the Simbul, and the rest of that band too.



It depends; if they move the timeline forward far enough they can say "Drizzt fought a valiant but losing battle against the encroaching darkness, and bought precious time for the few Points of Light to establish themselves, perishing heroically somewhere beyond our ken". That'll give plenty of scope for Salvatore to write Drizzt novels out the wazoo, set between the 3.5E and 4E iterations of the setting, but will nicely write Drizzt out of the setting itself.

you think they'd actually do such a fast-forward?  how many years would you have to jump to allow a moneymaker author like salvatore to have a good cushion for "the unknown adventures of drizzt" or whatever?

it's funny, i have only a passing interest (if that) of FR but i'm looking forward much more to what WotC does to it as opposed to any interest in what 4E turns out to be. :raise:

Quote from: WarthurIt depends what spin they put on it. If they say "The Realms is only just recovering from the terrible Spellplague, there's Waterdeep and a few other Points of Light but nobody really knows what the situation is beyond those, enough time has passed that all the old canon NPCs have passed on and the Spellplague destroyed most of the more plot-heavy organisations in the setting" it'd be a decent basis for a reset. I suspect that there may be some at Wizards who advocated a total rebooting but they're probably too afraid that fans will reject it en masse.

As someone else mentioned, this would be interesting to see play out as it would make the current fans probably more crazed than those who thought the realms had gone off the deep end.

As I am one of the latter, it might be enough to make me take a second look.

Oh - and as for Drizzt - just remember that the way the BoNS works is fucking perfect to explain Drizzt's abilities - far better than anything in 2nd or 3rd editions.  So, if the BoNS is the direction they are heading (and the "empowerment" of the lowly fighter), why would they fast-forward out the best written example of the system they are implementing? IMHO, YMMV, etc...

This makes me wonder - was FR, as a novel setting, ever a good mesh for D&D?  Are they attempting to move the system to better support/represent the most successful novels/IP they have? It would be a smart move - kind of like writing the biggest RPG for a licensed product. Hmmm...