The two stories use different time, PD and DR. I’m playing a campaign set in Exandria, a Duergars, and I’m trying to figure out when the Duergars became a race. The only time references I see are in the Forgotten realms. so how do I convert DR into PD? Is it possible or just make it up with my DM?
Different worlds have different calendars, and potentially entirely different time flows. If there is no direct connection between Exandria and other worlds, there is no way to link them temporally. Just talk to your DM and make it up.
Forgotten Realms and Exandria are completely different planes of existence, with the latter not even having been created by Wizards or its predecessors. Functionally your question would be like trying to use the Silmarillion to find out when the Dwarves in Narnia came into being. Tolkien and Lewis might have been friends, and Narnia even has multiverse theory, but you cannot use one to figure out something in the other.
I would look up and see if any Critical Role sites have the information you seek - Critters can be rather obsessive in their data collection about the show, so if someone ever gave an official data, it would exist online somewhere. If not, then you are free to come up with what works for you and your DM (which, of course, you are also free to do even if there is an official date—the wonderful thing about D&D is that you can always reshape the world to your own ends).
Skimmed what EGtW says, it looks like while mechanically Duergar are or can be a different species related to Dwarves, the book describes Duergar as dwarves who remain deep in the under dark beneath Xorhas, and generally keep to themselves outside of warring with Drow, occasionally raiding the surface of Kryn, though some have actually joined Kryn society. There may be deeper info in Tal Dor'al and most definitely more info in the wikis. But it doesn't seem like it was some sort of god created act, rather it's more population/culture designation for a group of dwarves.
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It is always possible to just make it up with your DM. I guess, the big question is what kind of cosmology you use. If you accept spelljammer, then both worlds exist in different wildspace systems on the same material plane. At that point, it's possible one came from a spelljamming ship from the other, or through some kind of teleportation or other magic. Or there was some third world where they all started and then scattered out to various other worlds. Or none of the above. Or use what midnightplat said. Really unless the campaign is going to get into that kind of planet-hopping stuff, you can probably just make it up and go with it, and it won't really matter too much.
Forgotten Realms and Exandria are completely different planes of existence, with the latter not even having been created by Wizards or its predecessors. Functionally your question would be like trying to use the Silmarillion to find out when the Dwarves in Narnia came into being. Tolkien and Lewis might have been friends, and Narnia even has multiverse theory, but you cannot use one to figure out something in the other.
I would look up and see if any Critical Role sites have the information you seek - Critters can be rather obsessive in their data collection about the show, so if someone ever gave an official data, it would exist online somewhere. If not, then you are free to come up with what works for you and your DM (which, of course, you are also free to do even if there is an official date—the wonderful thing about D&D is that you can always reshape the world to your own ends).
I'm pretty sure they are both located in the prime material plane.
The two stories use different time, PD and DR. I’m playing a campaign set in Exandria, a Duergars, and I’m trying to figure out when the Duergars became a race. The only time references I see are in the Forgotten realms. so how do I convert DR into PD? Is it possible or just make it up with my DM?
Different worlds have different calendars, and potentially entirely different time flows. If there is no direct connection between Exandria and other worlds, there is no way to link them temporally. Just talk to your DM and make it up.
Forgotten Realms and Exandria are completely different planes of existence, with the latter not even having been created by Wizards or its predecessors. Functionally your question would be like trying to use the Silmarillion to find out when the Dwarves in Narnia came into being. Tolkien and Lewis might have been friends, and Narnia even has multiverse theory, but you cannot use one to figure out something in the other.
I would look up and see if any Critical Role sites have the information you seek - Critters can be rather obsessive in their data collection about the show, so if someone ever gave an official data, it would exist online somewhere. If not, then you are free to come up with what works for you and your DM (which, of course, you are also free to do even if there is an official date—the wonderful thing about D&D is that you can always reshape the world to your own ends).
Skimmed what EGtW says, it looks like while mechanically Duergar are or can be a different species related to Dwarves, the book describes Duergar as dwarves who remain deep in the under dark beneath Xorhas, and generally keep to themselves outside of warring with Drow, occasionally raiding the surface of Kryn, though some have actually joined Kryn society. There may be deeper info in Tal Dor'al and most definitely more info in the wikis. But it doesn't seem like it was some sort of god created act, rather it's more population/culture designation for a group of dwarves.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
It is always possible to just make it up with your DM. I guess, the big question is what kind of cosmology you use. If you accept spelljammer, then both worlds exist in different wildspace systems on the same material plane. At that point, it's possible one came from a spelljamming ship from the other, or through some kind of teleportation or other magic. Or there was some third world where they all started and then scattered out to various other worlds. Or none of the above. Or use what midnightplat said. Really unless the campaign is going to get into that kind of planet-hopping stuff, you can probably just make it up and go with it, and it won't really matter too much.
I'm pretty sure they are both located in the prime material plane.
They are two different prime material planes.