A quick question for @TheEdVerse if you have time and inclination to answer:
If someone wanted to run a modern setting campaign in Forgotten Realms, how would the year be dated? I need clarity/
Are you asking in which year would the medieval-cum-Renaissance most likely "advance" to be like our modern real world? Or what dating system would most likely be in use in the Realms then? Or what year in DR would it be in the Realms when it's December 2020 here?— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 12, 2020
I’m asking the former. What year would it be when the setting “advanced” to be most like our modern real world?
— RJ Cresswell (@rj_cresswell) December 12, 2020
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…another, going to all-out war to prevent that. Which may, in turn, lead giants (longtime rivals of the dragons) and others to take advantage of the strife to go to war to settle scores. Then EVERYONE’S gods may get involved, and gates/portals flung open and… 3)
…otherplanar races called into the fray or opportunistically joining it, and modernity may be several steps beyond utter slaughter and devastation.
Or not, Weave and its masters forbidding. Unless they get struck down.
So, once more, the answer boils down to: it depends. ;}— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 12, 2020