1/16/2024 0 Comments Forgotten realms pantheon angerThe concept is pretty compelling: the gods of all the FR pantheons are deposed and kicked out of their godly realms, cast into mortal avatars, and made virtually powerless. Needless to say, I’ve long been interested in the Time of Troubles and was excited to dive into the series that told its story. By then, the Time of Troubles was a thing of the past in the Forgotten Realms storyworld, but it was still regularly referenced in the many guidebooks to the campaign setting (I had every single FR book published for 3.0 and 3.5 before selling them when I entered high school, thinking I would trade my love of D&D for choir, which would definitely make me more popular). D&D 3.0 and 3.5 were my childhood friends and I pretty much grew up with Drizzt as my best friend in middle school. ![]() I came of age with Wizards’ D&D, which in the early 2000s was popular enough to have its own local store in the mall (to be fair, I lived outside of Seattle, not 15 minutes from Wizards’ home in Redmond, WA). ![]() The “ Time of Troubles” was a major event in D&D‘s Forgotten Realms storyworld, beginning in 1989 and making its mark at a time when TSR, D&D‘s original owners, was nearing the end of its original peak of popularity in the 1980s and charging downhill into fan disaffection and financial ruin, leading to its sale in 1997 to Wizards of the Coast.
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