What is the status of Cormyr in 5e?

[Istbor]

That practice ended during the Sundering, so it's over, but the memory remains.

Nah nothing is 'over' at your table until yourself and your group agree it is.

 

[gyor]

A thought, for those who like political intrigue campaigns:
4e "Imperial Cormyr" expanded to absorb nearby city-states. For 5e, Cormyr is supposed to have shrunk back to traditional boundaries.
The nearby city-states will be treated as "buffer zones" or client-states. Any trouble will have to go through them to get at Cormyr, and Cormyr will have no problem at all quietly sending official strike forces - or preferably adventurer bands - to deal with people / organizations / issues that are still small but too big to ignore.

The Royal official sponsoring the PCs might even claim to be "keeping alive the tradition of the Steel Regent, who went adventuring in her younger days before ascending to the throne."

Interesting ideas.

 

[gyor]

Nah nothing is 'over' at your table until yourself and your group agree it is.

I'm talking in Canon, you can do anything at your table, have Communist insurrection against the crown succeed in Cormyr if you want, or turn 90% of population into Vampires, or turn the whole country into one giant brothel, anyghing happen at your table, but that is very different from Canon.

 

[Istbor]

I'm talking in Canon, you can do anything at your table, have Communist insurrection against the crown succeed in Cormyr if you want, or turn 90% of population into Vampires, or turn the whole country into one giant brothel, anyghing happen at your table, but that is very different from Canon.

Which is why the "at your table" was included in my post.

 

[Ancalagon]

I'm talking in Canon, you can do anything at your table, have Communist insurrection against the crown succeed in Cormyr if you want, or turn 90% of population into Vampires, or turn the whole country into one giant brothel, anyghing happen at your table, but that is very different from Canon.

Is the novel Canon?

 

[MiraMels]

Is the novel Canon?

Fire in the Blood? Yeah, of course it is. Erin Evans worked with Ed Greenwood on the details, and it was published by Wizards of the Coast. Her series is mentioned in the Dungeon Masters Guide and one of the books provides the header quote for tieflings in the Player's Handbook.

 

[gyor]

Is the novel Canon?

All FR novels are Canon, Eberron novels specifically aren't.

 

[gyor]

Fire in the Blood? Yeah, of course it is. Erin Evans worked with Ed Greenwood on the details, and it was published by Wizards of the Coast. Her series is mentioned in the Dungeon Masters Guide and one of the books provides the header quote for tieflings in the Player's Handbook.

Dragonborn too.

 

[Ancalagon]

All FR novels are Canon, Eberron novels specifically aren't.

I reject the notion that I should have to read *novels* to learn the canon of a setting for an rpg game. That is hugely inconvenient.

 

[Demetrios1453]

I reject the notion that I should have to read *novels* to learn the canon of a setting for an rpg game. That is hugely inconvenient.

Well, until such time as we get some sort of guide for the region for 5e, it's really the best we've got.