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D&D 4th Edition ‘almost broke’ legendary writer R.A. Salvatore
(www.polygon.com)
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Yeah, kinda.
For anyone who wants to skip the article--which is really just a fluff piece interview with Salvatore--this is the rest of the quote.
He tries to put things from the games into his books and it's hard to do when things change drastically, so he just sorta fudges it.
I mean, that was essentially the point of the spell plague. It was just a cataclysm to explain why mechanics were so different due to 4e. It's basically like in comics when they want to reboot they do a big cataclysm to justify resetting