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Old 03-15-2014, 11:12 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
Uh... yes. The SpellPlague puts the entire FR on the top of its head. Major characters are either killed of or hugely incapacitated. Elminster, for example, is now a raving lunatic, who can sometimes muster the power he has wielded for thousands of years, but if he does, he turns mad for a time. He is also searching for rare magical objects to keep The Simbul in check; if she doesn't get them, she becomes... annoying.

I don't really know yet if I like the SpellPlague. I know the FR as it was during AD&D Second Edition, and I could make the transition to Third Edition and 3.5 Editions, because they basically were only rule changes; 4th Edition and the SpellPlague are not only rule changes, but basically a reboot of the entire world, while some older characters surviving in one way or another.

"Hey, dude. You've been reading this stuff for 15 years. You know what?"
- "What?"
"As of next month, its not true anymore. You can forget everything you ever read about this subject. We're restarting."

AAAAWWRrGgghHhh.....
Okay. I wasn't thinking of that as an apocalypse so much as drastic changes in the nature of things. But I just read the books, and I haven't read a lot about events after the SpellPlague (I'm getting there, but you know how TBRs are The Forgotten Realms are just a fraction of the books I have lined up) so I guess I'm not the expert on it... The only post-SpellPlague books I've read so far are The Ghost King through Charon's Claw, none of which seem to have shown the full impact.

Where do you suggest I start exploring the events/impact of the post-SpellPlague world?
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