Originally Posted by FreeTheSlaves
Originally Posted by kanisatha
Yeah for me also, I think at the end of the day the thing about BG3 that generates all this anger in me is that the lore of the FR setting is not just being ignored but being treated contemptuously.

This is nothing new man. The FR wiki and SCAG conflict on so much, nevermind other source material like Descent to Avernus.

Like, I'm putting together an Eltural based adventure and lore conflicts abound. I have to make judgment calls about what truth I'm going to implement for our game.

It's hard to follow canon where previous authors have diverged or mistyped and the next author before you has carried the mistake. Heck, I read the whole Companion sun over Elturel thing was one author simply muddling names.
Fair enough. I've enough anger in me about this issue to go around, so I'll gladly direct a bunch of it towards WotC. But with WotC, FYI, it is well-known this is a recent thing. Up through 3.5e, the FR setting was revered within WotC. Then there was a wholesale change in the D&D dev team within WotC, and the new guys (who were the same people who took us into 4e) openly told people how much they hated the FR setting.