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02-24-09, 10:17 AM
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#1 | | Beholder Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Aloha, Oregon
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|  Single Player modle hasn't kept up with the lore
Dark Elves are referred to as "Drow" all throughout the module (just grep for them)
Same thing for Dragons. There are no more "metallic" and "colored/chromatic" dragons anymore. |  |   | |
02-24-09, 10:19 AM
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#2 | | Ancient Dragon Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Jersey (Exit 88)
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| Re: Single Player modle hasn't kept up with the lore
While thats true, I think they stopped fiddling with that a long time ago, especially since one of the main people working on it, Lalaith Va'lash, has been busy with her school and life a lot lately. So not that I'm any sort of official voice around here, but I don't think any of that is going to get fixed, unless you want to do it yourself 
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02-24-09, 10:46 AM
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#3 | | Administrator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Chicago-ish
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| Re: Single Player modle hasn't kept up with the lore
Yes, it's very true that it has not. It was the effort of a group of dedicated people, of whom only one of them is still around in any real capacity at the moment, and he is concentrating on other tasks. It was a very large effort to make originally, and one for which we simply don't have resources to maintain at this point.
Beyond those references, there are undoubtedly mentions of places that have been renamed and such. It's also slightly anachronistic in its time of setting, but that's a lesser issue. | | | | |
03-17-09, 09:09 PM
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#4 | | Ancient Dragon Join Date: Dec 2004
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| Re: Single Player modle hasn't kept up with the lore
I'm not sure what's been retconned and what has been changed as IC time goes forward but Xora's Vial was definitely set at a particular point in time (which I cannot recall but it is stated in the module).
There are no drow in the Xora's vial plot and I don't think they're mentioned in the dialogue or narration... but there are about a hundred book items that were dropped from the PW module into the SP and scattered about with various background stories. I suspect that some of these refer to drow, since many of them were written well before dark elf was even the preferred name of the race.
That said, I doubt it's 1) worth the effort to re-release (even if the fix were as simple as a find and replace). I'm not sure if the mod is still getting much traffic but chances are it already has recieved a good portion of the downloads it will get, so any fix would reach a marginal population.
Oh and, hey guys *waves*
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03-18-09, 05:49 AM
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| Re: Single Player modle hasn't kept up with the lore
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Originally Posted by Talan Va'lash  Oh and, hey guys *waves* | Hey! *waves* | | | | |
03-18-09, 06:33 AM
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| Re: Single Player modle hasn't kept up with the lore
Woah. TV. Long time. *joins the waving*
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03-18-09, 08:06 AM
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| Re: Single Player modle hasn't kept up with the lore
I checked this post, and said to myself, "Oh, look, Talan posted. Wait, what?" *waves as well*
As for your original post, SM - well, what the others said. As I understand it, the SPM was intended to be a one-off, not to evolve with the world, at any rate.
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