Time in the Forgotten Realms: Dale Reckoning I would rather products have clear dates and then also empower and urge DMs to do with this as they wish. Overall, I side with the utility of timelines and lore. Our home campaigns can do whatever we want with these dates. However, don’t forget the reasons why Wizards hides the dates. That’s a big part behind why this blog post exists: to give us that timeline we often desire. Those elements enrich the adventures, at the cost of forcing a timeline.ĭMs and players that want verisimilitude find themselves hunting for dates.
And some products have incorrect date references! In several products, designers can’t help but include fun nods to previous adventures.
Some products have a clearly stated date. Others hide a date in some hard-to-find place, or the date can be inferred. The world should feel accessible and flexible, easily fitting a DM’s needs.ĥE products have varying approaches to balancing these conflicting needs. Simultaneously, they don’t want us to pick up a product and feel like it is out of date, or that we must play it in a certain order. They want the world to feel deep and real, and to have events matter. The 5E D&D team struggles with canon for good reasons. Here’s a question many ask when reading the official hardback adventures such as Lost Mine of Phandelver, Curse of Strahd, Tomb of Annihilation, or Dragon of Icespire Peak: when does it take place? And, what is the order of the official adventures?Īlong the way, we want to geek out on a cool subject: just how does the Forgotten Realms timeline work, and what should we know about it? D&D’s Conflicted View on Canonical Timelines
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