If one were to opt to utterly ignore the Second Sundering in their home #ForgottenRealms #dnd5e game, what impact might that have on the latest power structures (nations, factions, guilds, etc?) You have to decide at least 3 things:
1. Is the Spellplague "over" and what's the resulting state of spellcasting and active magic in your Realms right now?
2. What gods and their faiths are "gone" or back, dwindling or flourishing?
3. Current Realmsdate?#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 25, 2020
All excellent questions and food for thought. Thank you! Ponder, then reach out here and we can talk. The Piazza is right; if the Second Sundering didn't happen, the "macro" Realms is essentially as in 3e, but there are many local details updated for 5e that would apply (and more questions: did "Tyranny of Dragons" happen?)#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 25, 2020
I hadn’t even considered the micro/local impact. I was just thinking about the changes wrought by geography and nations transitioning from Abeir to Toril or the reverse. I like the Spellplague, and some of the events AROUND the Second Sundering…but maybe not the world-swaps? Hmm, actually now that I wrote that all out, maybe it's more that I liked the Far Realm / Wild Magic aspects of the Spellplague, but didn't so much like the world-swaps effects which were more tied to the Spellplague than the Second Sundering, yes?
Too many 'S' apocalypses! 🙂— Jim Flory (@Inveterate_DM) October 25, 2020
So keep the wild magic, marauding Far Realm monsters, and invisible, wandering Far Realm/FR rifts, and have (post-2nd Sundering), all the lands back where they started from (no swaps). Most of 5e, at the micro/local level, is 3e updated by 150 years.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 25, 2020