Thanks for the info dump. It's never very good story-telling when you reboot things, I'm sorry to hear they needed to do it with 4th edition, especially considering what a blip it would turn out to be.
That's very interesting about working around the Drizzt's continuity, it reminds me a lot of the debates that go on in Star Wars circles as to how long Luke trained on Dagobah. I like the idea of that chapter taking a year to complete. sometimes for me it does
As for what is and isn't continuity, I'm a fan of comic books, the only thing that really matters in continuity is how often it's referenced by other authors, so whatever happened in the interim of these two games I would consider fair game depending on how popular they were and what authors pick to include in their stories, so there's some hope there, maybe.
