Baldur's Gate : The Sword Coast Chronicles : NWN2 Persistent World

Did anyone read these six books? The Sundering? The books that leads to DnD next, the fifth edition? If so, can you please post a summary of the story? I don't want to invest time reading stuff related to the fifth edition, but I'm curious still.

tl;dr the setting reached new levels of stupid

Interesting list of things happening, Rasael. One question though. What -is- the sundering? How does it bring gods back to life?

Maximvs wrote:Interesting list of things happening, Rasael. One question though. What -is- the sundering? How does it bring gods back to life?

http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/S ... 28event%29

5th edition Forgotten Realms is ultimately a restoration of Faerun since what happened in the Spellplague. Practically all the gods are back (even the Dark Three, Bhaal, Myrkul and Bane who died in the Times of Troubles) and all the countries that were basically spellnuked are restored too.

I assume Thay is still suffering under the 4th edition s***, though.

Bane was back in 3rd edition through the sheer power of his will. Please don't put him in the same basket as those two other weak nerds.

Thids wrote:Bane was back in 3rd edition through the sheer power of his will. Please don't put him in the same basket as those two other weak nerds.

+1

deserk wrote:5th edition Forgotten Realms is ultimately a restoration of Faerun since what happened in the Spellplague. Practically all the gods are back (even the Dark Three, Bhaal, Myrkul and Bane who died in the Times of Troubles) and all the countries that were basically spellnuked are restored too.

It's kinda like a sitcom, when during one season, they tried something different and shook things up but in the end, everything went back to normal

I've read the Sentinel and The Harald.

The Sentinel is a great and easy read that stands on its own well enough that you only need basic knowledge of the realms to understand what's going on. It tells of the chosen of Helm joining up with a chosen of Siamorphe, a chosen of Sune and a chosen of Myrkul. There goal is to keep the powerful artifact the eye of Grummish out of the hands of Shar's followers and deliver it to a temple of Grumbar to convince him to stay on Toril and not travel to the splitting Abar to hold Shar at bay. It also features Helm's full revival at a rather bad ass moment.

The Herald should be read as another follow up of the long running Eliminster books. You follow Eliminster and friends as they struggle to keep the weave alive. Myth Drannor is under complete seige so that Shar can take the power of the Mythral. Whlie Candlekeep is full of spies from almost every order seeking it's rare lore and the power of its wards the strongest remaining and one of the last pillers holding the weave. Larloch plays a big part, you also see the elves of Myth Drannor again like Fflar. Mystra returns by the end.

The sundering itself can mostly be summed up by Ao is rewriting the tablets of fate and all the gods are making power plays. Meanwhile Abar and Toril are splitting apart again. In real life it's mostly the writers fixing the problems 4e caused. As most of the Authors never got any input in 4e.