D&D 5E How will the Forgotten Realms be handled?

[Mirtek]

Again, you might be surprised. It depends if you count the large number of Living Forgotten Realms adventures released for public play during this time. But even if you don't, the number of novels published over the last few years is definitely not "a heck of a lot more" than the number of published supplements which take place in the Realms. 2012: 12 novels + ebooks, 8 supplements, 35 LFR adventures 2013: 5 novels, 6 supplements, 19 LFR adventures 2014: 3 novels, 5 supplements, 16 LFR adventures

Note that LFR stopped being canon in year 2 or so.

The last straws for me when it came to the Realms was the 'getting along with orcs' in Drizzt novels

Well, that actually already happened elsewhere much earlies. When Azoun was raising troops for his crusade against the Tuigans, Zhentil Keep sought a cheap way to contribute and send an army of orcs. Not only fought they bravely, their leader even received a medal from the hands of Azoun himself. The orcs then decide to settle in Thesk rather than go back to the Keep and lived a civilized and peaceful live with their human neighbours. That was a decade before the kingdom of Many Arrows

 

[Remathilis]

Thanks for that info. They are really going whole-hog on the "setting back status quo" thing.

 

[Agamon]

Here's an overview: SPOILER ALERT

• Night of the hunter -Orcs are indeed chaotic evil in alignment and don't want to play nice with the other races. -Lolth is making a play for control of the newly reformed weave. To be continue in RA's next book. -The Kingdom of Many Arrows is going to try to invade the North to be continued in RA's next book.

Huh. Without knowing this, this is basically the metaplot to my just started Silver Marches game.