If the whole live timeline campaign thing is still true, the current Forgotten Realms year is 1495 DR.
Princes of the Apocalypse is 1491 DR and it came out in 2015.
Edit: This makes more sense to me about the increase in gun appearances in official material. The technology is supposed to represent real world progression and 1490s is when the colonial era was about to happen.
Chris Perkins (Wizards of the Coast) confirmed on Twitter that the latest Forgotten Realms adventures (Waterdeep: Dragon Heist and Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage) take place in 1492DR, the Year of Three Ships Sailing.
So if it has only been 100 years since the spell plague then many elves lived through the spell plague? If you play a High elf who is 300 years old they were alive before and after the spell plague, right? If they were a caster they had to reteach themselves to cast magic?
The spell plague is something that as I player I never really grasped how recent and how present the effects are on peoples memories.
Imagine the turmoil being spread over the entire Forgotten Realms world. Forgotten Realms started being an official campaign setting near the end of 1st edition and the time was set at DR 1357.
DR 1358 was the year when the Time of Troubles started (and, as best I can tell, also the year it ended) and the gods walked the earth as punishment. Some of the mortals who took over dead god's portfolios didn't become deities until years later. This cataclysm was also the explanation as to why the rules of so much stuff changed from 1st Edition to 2nd Edition.
DR 1385 was the year when the Spellplague started and that lasted for 10 years, so I guess that's 1395 or 1396.
So in the space of a human living as a teen to being a man still in his adventuring years. The Forgotten Realms started, gods walked the Earth and died. And the Spellplague started and ended. So Mystra so some humans were actually older than Mystra when she died again (this time being dead as the mortal-made-deity, Midnight, who took the last Mystra's place.)
A little surprised that people didn't just throw up their hands and say, "Screw it, the gods are less permanent than we are."
So now we have gone close to a century past the end of the Spellplague. I guess, technically, a human through normal means could still be alive who was alive during the Spellplague, but they'd not have any memories of it since they'd be a little baby and by now, even with modern healthcare, they'd probably be confined to a bed and -possibly- not even able to tell a coherent story.
I had done some research on the timeline both real life and Forgotten Realms combined and typed it up in a post about a year ago. I'll link that here if anyone wants to read it.
But really, any race that lives much longer than a human would have memories going back to the Spellplague and Time of Troubles that they could recount first hand. For Toadstool to say that the latest adventures at time of writing are both Waterdeep adventures in 1492, its only been 134 years since the gods were walking around as powerful mortals among their followers.
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I'm sure I've just missed this somewhere but what is the current year by Dale Reckoning??
If the whole live timeline campaign thing is still true, the current Forgotten Realms year is 1495 DR.
Princes of the Apocalypse is 1491 DR and it came out in 2015.
Edit: This makes more sense to me about the increase in gun appearances in official material. The technology is supposed to represent real world progression and 1490s is when the colonial era was about to happen.
Chris Perkins (Wizards of the Coast) confirmed on Twitter that the latest Forgotten Realms adventures (Waterdeep: Dragon Heist and Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage) take place in 1492DR, the Year of Three Ships Sailing.
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So if it has only been 100 years since the spell plague then many elves lived through the spell plague? If you play a High elf who is 300 years old they were alive before and after the spell plague, right? If they were a caster they had to reteach themselves to cast magic?
The spell plague is something that as I player I never really grasped how recent and how present the effects are on peoples memories.
Yeah. They ALSO remember the time of troubles.
Like, the gods walked the freaking earth a decade ago
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Imagine the turmoil being spread over the entire Forgotten Realms world. Forgotten Realms started being an official campaign setting near the end of 1st edition and the time was set at DR 1357.
DR 1358 was the year when the Time of Troubles started (and, as best I can tell, also the year it ended) and the gods walked the earth as punishment. Some of the mortals who took over dead god's portfolios didn't become deities until years later. This cataclysm was also the explanation as to why the rules of so much stuff changed from 1st Edition to 2nd Edition.
DR 1385 was the year when the Spellplague started and that lasted for 10 years, so I guess that's 1395 or 1396.
So in the space of a human living as a teen to being a man still in his adventuring years. The Forgotten Realms started, gods walked the Earth and died. And the Spellplague started and ended. So Mystra so some humans were actually older than Mystra when she died again (this time being dead as the mortal-made-deity, Midnight, who took the last Mystra's place.)
A little surprised that people didn't just throw up their hands and say, "Screw it, the gods are less permanent than we are."
So now we have gone close to a century past the end of the Spellplague. I guess, technically, a human through normal means could still be alive who was alive during the Spellplague, but they'd not have any memories of it since they'd be a little baby and by now, even with modern healthcare, they'd probably be confined to a bed and -possibly- not even able to tell a coherent story.
I had done some research on the timeline both real life and Forgotten Realms combined and typed it up in a post about a year ago. I'll link that here if anyone wants to read it.
But really, any race that lives much longer than a human would have memories going back to the Spellplague and Time of Troubles that they could recount first hand. For Toadstool to say that the latest adventures at time of writing are both Waterdeep adventures in 1492, its only been 134 years since the gods were walking around as powerful mortals among their followers.
Good luck and may you roll 20's when you need them and 1's when you need a laugh. - myself
Closer to 1.5 centuries ago.
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https://alphastream.org/index.php/2020/04/09/the-official-timeline-for-the-forgotten-realms-and-its-adventures/
Guide to the Five Factions (PWYW)
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