D&D 5E Forgotten Realms: Rising from the Last Realms Shaking Event

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[gyor]

I think this is actually the issue: Some folk at WotC would like to retcon the 4e changes as "never happened", whereas some want to go with "it happened but pretty much everything is back how it used to be". Currently they are going with a vague "it's up to the DM", but the more they publish in the setting, and the more they respond to some players demand for a "canon" FR the harder it becomes to stay on the fence.

The easiest thing to do is focus on other settings and wait for the problem to go away.

The problem is not going away, it has to dealt with.

 

[Salthorae]

As a primary-Eberron fan, it's really interesting to see this contrast - on one hand, FR is the default setting of 5e. On the other hand, it's only that in a very shallow way.

Kind of like how Greyhawk was the default setting for the 3.x era.

I mean, I would love to get what @gyor is asking for in this thread. I don't think it's going to happen, but I would love it.

it has to dealt with.

Well... it doesn't really. Much as you or I or others would love to see it, they don't HAVE to do anything about it.

Their publication strategy continues to be very popular and successful financially, so there is literally no incentive for them to deviate from it and toss in a giant FR encyclopedia/lore book given the amount of lore out there for FR already, even if not 5e updated.

I do like that most of the published adventures DO detail the areas of the realms that they play in, I just wish that they had adventures outside of the Sword Coast again so that we did get more of the 5e updates.

Let's get some 5e Moonshae adventures, or Evermeet, or my favorite island nation, Nimbral! Heck, even somethings in Aglarond or Damara would be nice.

 

[ChaosOS]

I think in general there's a lot of criticism that 5e has failed to venture out of generic european fantasy, regardless of if that's in the realms or not. However, their primary venture outside of the sword coast (ToA) had a lot of major issues with how it handled other cultures...

 

[Paul Farquhar]

That's the precise opposite of my experience. Does the DMG specifically advocate that new DMs start their own settings? If not, what are you referring to?

The whole of the first chapter of the DMG is dedicated to creating a homebrew setting.

My experience, having seen many groups over many years including two ones with people new to RPGs with 5E is that most new DMs quickly latch on to an existing setting,

A familiar setting, maybe. But I am finding that the Forgotten Realms isn't familiar with new players these days.

The other thing I've seen is essentially "no real setting beyond what the adventure provides", which is common with new DMs running pre-gen adventure paths.

True. But no reason why that should be FR. One GenericFantasyLand is as good as another.

I strongly suspect that if we did a poll of people playing D&D we'd find a strong correlation between people having played 20+ years and people running full homebrew.

The only person I know running an FR game is me, and I'm the one with 37 years experience. For the younger DMs the Forgotten Realms lives up to it's name.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

So... Forgotten Realms has the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide, obviously a guide to the Sword Coast. But it also has Out of the Abyss, which doubles as a guide to FR's Underdark, and Tomb of Annihilation, which doubles as a guide to Chult.

In addition to that, you've got Tyranny of Dragons, Princes of the Apocalypse, Storm King's Thunder, Dragon Heist, and Dungeon of the Mad Mage. And somehow this isn't enough?

I'm not saying that FR shouldn't get content from other areas of its world, but certainly other settings have been waiting longer for 5e content.

 

[Andy Dempz]

Let's get some 5e Moonshae adventures, or Evermeet, or my favorite island nation, Nimbral! Heck, even somethings in Aglarond or Damara would be nice.

There‘s an entire Adventurers League campaign set in the Moonshaes. 34 modules plus the convention-only specials. They’re slowly making they’re way onto the DMsGuild, 7 so far.

 

[Salthorae]

There‘s an entire Adventurers League campaign set in the Moonshaes. 34 modules plus the convention-only specials. They’re slowly making they’re way onto the DMsGuild, 7 so far.

Good to know, I'll have to check that out!

 

[Andy Dempz]

Good to know, I'll have to check that out!

Douglas Niles even wrote the forward to the regional guide, and Eric Menge is the story architect so it’s in very good hands. Dungeon Masters Guild

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Hey maybe they’ll do a season in Rashamen sometime!