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xkagearashix
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what gives? I haven't played Neverwinter in over a year, I come back and find this... I've been playing the tabletop of D&D since the 80s, Ravenloft is a seperate setting like Darksun, Greyhawk, Dragonlance etc... it should not be in Neverwinter, as Ravenloft IS NOT part of the Forgotten Realms... smh
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http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Demiplane_of_Dread
In relation to the Forgotten Realms, Castle Spulzeer in Tethyr was sucked into the demiplane by a magical gem set in the hilt of the dagger Aggarath. Jander Sunstar suffered a similar fate after he swore revenge for his dead love,[2] and the Lost King of Cormyr, Gondegal, has gained a position of power as the leader of the Knight of the Shadows order, a secret society dedicated to the protection of the helpless and oppressed.[3]
Several residents of Faerûn have even risen to the level of Darklord: Harkon Lukas, the cormyrian wolfwere; Hazlik, a red wizard; Urik von Kharkov, an escaped magical experiment; Draga Saltbiter, a Sword Coast pirate turned wereshark; and Tsien Chiang, the reknowned sorceress from Kara-Tur.[citation needed]
Sometime in the late 15th century DR, reports of werewolf attacks and Vistani sightings in Daggerford and surrounding areas indicated that a passage into one of the Domains of Dread might have been present somewhere in the Misty Forest.
Before it became part of the Demiplane of Dread, one of the two gods worshiped in Barovia was Lathander, though he no longer had any power there after the rise of Strahd, and didn't answer the prayers of his few remaining followers, who remembered only his title of Morninglord since his name has been almost completely forgotten over the centuries of his silence.
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http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Jander_Sunstar was a non evil vampire from Toril that ended up In Ravenloft.
So yeah these settings have always been connected in one way or another.
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Children of the Fey (RELEASED) - NW-DKSSAPFPF
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I have to admit, WotC has been crossing the streams quite a bit with 5th Edition. Sometimes it bugs me a little. Everything they put out is through the lens of the Forgotten Realms. The main villain from their last big adventure was Acererak (from "Tomb of Horrors") in Chult. I mean a planehopping lich showing up in FR works, but damn. Before that they put out a combo adventure book with converted modules from over the years called "Tales from the Yawning Portal". Most of them were old Greyhawk adventures, but the book was still themed around FR. Before that, their big adventures were mostly reused concepts from famous old school adventures/settings.
They try to say FR isn't the default setting of 5E, but then refuse to put out any campaign setting materials or adventures besides for FR, or at least they are presented through the FR lens. Heck, the setting support for FR has been pathetic too. They claim the multiverse is the default setting of 5E, but apparently that only goes so far as the multiverse can be turned into FR material.
I actually don't play much 5E table-top because of this. If I have to write my own FR setting for the current year, I'll pass. I wanted a Greyhawk setting, but if I have to convert the old setting, I'll just play it in it's native edition. And that's exactly what I do. I run a 2E Greyhawk 576cy campaign while my brother runs a 1E Greyhawk 576cy parallel campaign and are having a ball! Both of those could have been 5E games, but for lack of support. Heck, if I wanted to run a homebrew FR campaign, I'd just run an AD&D era and rules version of it because there isn't even FR campaign guide for 5E.
Sorry for the highjack and tirade, just something that bugs me.
I don't know how much you know about FR, but the Yawning Portal is an Inn in Waterdeep
Dinosaurs have actually been in D&D since the 80s if I remember correct back when it was just called D&D before it became AD&D
Dinos have been part of D&D since the first Monster Manual came out in 1977.
In an infinite universe (or more likely multiverse)...anything is possible
I never got to play much Dark Sun, but I did think they were pretty hard cut off from everything else.
I did know about the Yawning Portal being in Waterdeep (and an entrance to Undermountain). That's what tweaked me a little about that adventure book. It tried to present the YP as a loose jumping off point for all those other adventures, including Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan (Greyhawk), White Plume Mountain (Greyhawk), Against the Giants (Greyhawk), and Tomb of Horrors (later placed in Greyhawk). Really?! Well... (deep breath), in 4E they actually made them 2 separate, sister worlds that were torn from each other when the multiverse was young. Toril was in the Prime, while Albeir was in the Elemental Chaos (a 4E mashup of the Ethereal Plane and the Inner Planes). When the Spellplague happened, both planets ran into each other (metaphysically) and swapped some land masses and, along with the Spellplague in general, caused a heck of a mess. Magic worked differently, Dragonborn walked Toril, cats and dogs living together, MASS HYSTERIA!!
4E FR was not well received by a lot of FR fans... Planescape...
Anyways would like to see them add more Demiplanes of Dread. And not just Strahds Realm. There are other interesting Demiplanes of Dread they can do!
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