I realize I'm a little late to the party and I'm also fairly new to dndbeyond.com.
I was in the process of purchasing all the sources books and found that they stopped selling Volo's Guide and Tome of Foes in lieu of Monsters of the Multiverse.
My question is....What happened to the lore that was in the first few chapters of Tome of Foes and the lore that was in the first couple of chapters of Volo's Guide https://vshare****/?
Like the story of the blood war for instance. Would that be included in another source book or something on dndbeyond.com? Or did that just go away on the website when they stopped selling those two source books?
Wizards is changing up how they handle information dump books to better reflect two realities of the world we live in.
The first is the the overwhelming majority of campaigns are set in homebrew worlds - that means it is more helpful to most players cram as many stat blocks into a work as possible, rather than spend precious pages talking about lore most users do not really need.
The second is that there is already an overwhelming amount of lore out there - to the point many players complain that they are intimidated by the information overload of the Forgotten Realms. That lore is all super accessible - the internet has done a great job of collecting it for the more popular worlds - so there is not any need to add new lore where it does not need to be.
So, rather than provide lore in supplemental core books, adventures, and setting-specific guides, they’ll keep the lore where it belongs - books that are lore-specific in nature (and obsessive fan-created databases) - and out of the books where lore is not needed
The lore, which the question was asking about, is not present in the MotM book. The in depth "historical" lore was removed, so while they is still a good amount of lore remaining, a good chunk is gone.
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The lore was removed shortly before the books were made completely unavailable. It was part of a broad sweep of changes (removals) made to lore to accommodate different stories people wanted to tell. The lore regarding orcs, gnolls, etc. all presented them as monolithic cultures that were almost inherently evil. Combined with the presentation of some of the races in ways that reminded people of real-world harmful stereotypes and racism, WotC decided it was best just to remove the material. There was a whole big opinion storm around that time about orcs, savages, drow, skin color, racism, and inherent alignments. It's pretty easy to find info about it on the internet, and also pretty easy to find people who will still get riled up about it if you bring it up.
I believe ( haven’t gone looking recently so not sure) the older books are still available on DMsguild as well if you want to purchase them there for the lore.
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I realize I'm a little late to the party and I'm also fairly new to dndbeyond.com.
I was in the process of purchasing all the sources books and found that they stopped selling Volo's Guide and Tome of Foes in lieu of Monsters of the Multiverse.
My question is....What happened to the lore that was in the first few chapters of Tome of Foes and the lore that was in the first couple of chapters of Volo's Guide https://vshare****/?
Like the story of the blood war for instance. Would that be included in another source book or something on dndbeyond.com? Or did that just go away on the website when they stopped selling those two source books?
Wizards is changing up how they handle information dump books to better reflect two realities of the world we live in.
The first is the the overwhelming majority of campaigns are set in homebrew worlds - that means it is more helpful to most players cram as many stat blocks into a work as possible, rather than spend precious pages talking about lore most users do not really need.
The second is that there is already an overwhelming amount of lore out there - to the point many players complain that they are intimidated by the information overload of the Forgotten Realms. That lore is all super accessible - the internet has done a great job of collecting it for the more popular worlds - so there is not any need to add new lore where it does not need to be.
So, rather than provide lore in supplemental core books, adventures, and setting-specific guides, they’ll keep the lore where it belongs - books that are lore-specific in nature (and obsessive fan-created databases) - and out of the books where lore is not needed
They were replaced, more or less, by Monsters of the Multiverse which is available.
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The lore, which the question was asking about, is not present in the MotM book. The in depth "historical" lore was removed, so while they is still a good amount of lore remaining, a good chunk is gone.
If you're not willing or able to to discuss in good faith, then don't be surprised if I don't respond, there are better things in life for me to do than humour you. This signature is that response.
The lore was removed shortly before the books were made completely unavailable. It was part of a broad sweep of changes (removals) made to lore to accommodate different stories people wanted to tell. The lore regarding orcs, gnolls, etc. all presented them as monolithic cultures that were almost inherently evil. Combined with the presentation of some of the races in ways that reminded people of real-world harmful stereotypes and racism, WotC decided it was best just to remove the material. There was a whole big opinion storm around that time about orcs, savages, drow, skin color, racism, and inherent alignments. It's pretty easy to find info about it on the internet, and also pretty easy to find people who will still get riled up about it if you bring it up.
I believe ( haven’t gone looking recently so not sure) the older books are still available on DMsguild as well if you want to purchase them there for the lore.
Wisea$$ DM and Player since 1979.