Dear Dext. Paladin!
Most of the dear players usually forgot (or don't know at all) that The Forgotten Realms is a fantasy world what started it's "career" in the novels! (but I already mentioned this, the first novel in the Realms came out in 1987 from this world's creator Ed Greenwood)
Implementing this fantasy world as a TTRPG, what use the D&D rule sets only came many years and many novels later, and implementing as a successful CRPG game is only happened at 1998 in the 1'st Baldur's Gate game.
So to said it easy and plainly: from cronological and all other logical viewpoints the Novels is the main stream and the main source of the lore in this fantasy world (why: because the novels continuing even this days "more than 35 years of lore in the lot more than hundreds of novels already" from many talented and respected writers whos the creator of this fantasy world), not the actual edition of D&D rule set or any game, because any of that came only after.
So you say, those who told different from the facts (which is in every interpretation is a lie) is right?! Alright so you are sided those who "warped the reality itself"... it's soo good to know!
As (mostly) a D.M. (BTW in other TTRPG called G.M.) and player in many TTRPG (among them D&D, Shadowrun, Vampire, M.A.G.U.S. and some other not widely known) in the last more than 20 years, so let's just say I'm exactly know what a D.M. can do (and what CAN'T DO(!)) for the story.
BUT NEWSFLASH: every existing fantasy world (and every TT guidebook) use it's creators(!) basics and facts as fundamentals, because without that can't create any rule system for any RPG!
So in every RPG both the player and the D.M. need a "common ground" as "benchmark" because without that they can't play at all.
And maybe for you and the others who don't know these basics of this world, is "soo good" and "great" that Larian narrows (desecrated, tarnished, and lied about) that "common ground",but for me and those who know that basics it's not acceptable! And BTW for any GOOD(!) D.M. it's the very basic to keep respect and follow the fundamental, and create the new and interesting story when he/she builds on this fundamentals. Which is clearly doesn't happened it here! And again that doesn't change that Larian tarnished and lied (and their possible reasons, doesn't change that all, that this is facts again) about this facts!
About the Bhaal spawn! Thank you soo much that is exactly my point, because they created a thing which "doesn't existed" before so they can used it freely as they wanted! You know: "builded something new and original up on the already existing, and in the same time keept and respect the fundamentals"! (which is again just the basics of every RPG)
So if Larian want to create for example: 3 and half meter tall dwarfs, and feather skinned elves which they want to call goblins, or tieflings whos the descendant of a higher plane creature ...etc. etc. they can do that any time if they creating their new and very own fantasy world (because in there what they say is become the fundamental), but when they creating something up on that existing already they must keep and respect the fundamentals! And if they not, that's a sloppy lazy and failed work! Simple as it is!
And again just because you and some other dear players in thw "material planes" don't know these basics, that show only the "lack of knowledge", but don't change the facts!
BTW the universal cure for the lack of knowledge is the very same from thousands of years (and nowadays available nearly to anybody): read the books! (which is I already suggested many times in this thread!
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Cheers!
