I'm so glad this is finally here, long after it should have been. My hope for the Realms is that it will take the setting away from historical "borrowings" (always lazy design) into different, newly-crafted cultures with vibrant lives and characteristics of their own.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 22, 2020
Racism, sexism, and class snobbery all fade before better roleplaying when players are immersed in fantastic settings where the lives, views, and aspirations of kenku and thaalud are as detailed and pertinent as those of humans, and stereotypes are not truth.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 22, 2020
If the drow have a sort of "moral renaissance", I think that would be awesome, and I'm especially excited for what that might entail for Lolth and the Seldarine, but please don't redact the lore and stories I grew up with and love. Make it a progressive thing, not retroactive.
— Astrudai (@astrudai) June 22, 2020
The "standing Realms rule" is: rules/edition/real-world changes don't change established lore; "what came before" is still the history of the Realms.
As it should be; if we erase or rewrite the past, we learn nothing, and past achievements and strivings are nothing.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 23, 2020