D&D 5E Next (3rd book of the year) endless speculation thread

Gorg

Explorer
Frankly, I would love to see a full FR campaign setting- with all the bells and whistles, inc the gods, magic, various races, Domains, the works. Considering that many adventures they publish are set IN the Realms...

a Deities and Demi gods compendium. There's ridiculously little information in the core rulebooks about the gods just names and suggested domains- for the ones they included. Non human gods are especially short shrifted. Especially considering the emphasis the PHB places on choosing a specific god in the Cleric description. Not everyone owns a huge collection of old edition material or novels. I'd also like to see a few more domain choices.

Dragonlance, and Mystara are also high on the list. As is something for a Savage type setting (Maztica, for example)

I will say, however, that I'm not the biggest fan of where D-Lance went in it's later years, with Saga and all.

Mostly, I want to see the core rules expanded to include the beasties, magic, etc that got left out of the big 3. Like, monsters for instance. Sure I could convert things from past editions using the rules in the DMG and MM, but I SUCK at drawing/painting, lol- and the Monster Manual raised the bar for art impossibly high, imo.

Thus, a MM II; and Fiend Folio would be greatly appreciated, as would some expansion to the core races and classes.
 

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teitan

Legend
a Deities and Demi gods compendium. There's ridiculously little information in the core rulebooks about the gods just names and suggested domains- for the ones they included. Non human gods are especially short shrifted. Especially considering the emphasis the PHB places on choosing a specific god in the Cleric description. Not everyone owns a huge collection of old edition material or novels. I'd also like to see a few more domain choices.
Volo's and Mordenkainen's have the information on the non human gods and in more detail than even the FR deities in the SCAG.
 


teitan

Legend
Citation please. The introductions to MtoF and TCoE only mention Oerth, and never Toril, and beyond that Mordenkainen has had a cameo appearance in Ravenloft. As far as I can tell, neither of them have been mentioned in relation to the Forgotten Realms in 5e products at all...
In the Year of the Scarlet Witch, 1491 DR, Mordenkainen, still suffering from bouts of madness, was in Waterdeep, where Storm Silverhand and Elminster were helping him to recover from them.[1]

By the Year of Twelve Warnings, 1494 DR,[note 2] Mordenkainen inhabited the Tower of Urm, a dwelling that he used as a vehicle to travel through the multiverse. He occasionally visited Avernus to study the effects of the Nine Hells over the schools of magic and to ensure the balance of the universe.[12]

quotes from Mordenkainen

Note 12: (September 17, 2019). Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 97–98. ISBN 0786966769.

Mordenkainen is in Faerun now as of Avernus.

I can't find a citation for Tasha so I'll withdraw that but it really is beside the point because the mountain of evidence of moving Greyhawk to FR is already there without her. Tharizdun? Check. Acererak? Check. Vecna? Check.
 
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Urriak Uruk

Gaming is fun, and fun is for everyone
In the Year of the Scarlet Witch, 1491 DR, Mordenkainen, still suffering from bouts of madness, was in Waterdeep, where Storm Silverhand and Elminster were helping him to recover from them.[1]

By the Year of Twelve Warnings, 1494 DR,[note 2] Mordenkainen inhabited the Tower of Urm, a dwelling that he used as a vehicle to travel through the multiverse. He occasionally visited Avernus to study the effects of the Nine Hells over the schools of magic and to ensure the balance of the universe.[12]

quotes from Mordenkainen

Note 12: (September 17, 2019). Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 97–98. ISBN 0786966769.

Mordenkainen is in Faerun now as of Avernus.

Since when is Avernus in Faerun?
 

Parmandur

Book-Friend
Citation please. The introductions to MtoF and TCoE only mention Oerth, and never Toril, and beyond that Mordenkainen has had a cameo appearance in Ravenloft. As far as I can tell, neither of them have been mentioned in relation to the Forgotten Realms in 5e products at all...
Mordenkeinen and Tasha have decidedly not been "moved to" the Forgotten Realms, for sure. Mordenkeinen has appeared in two Adventure books, but in neither was he in the Realms at all:
he is in Barovia in Curse of Strahd, and can potentally play a major role in the proceedings. He also shows up in Avernus as an NPC who has a Planes traversing vehicle doing reconnaissance on the Lower Planes which are connected to different worlds o nthe Material Plane
 


The description of the upcoming Ravenloft book makes me a little hopeful for a Planescape book (or manual of the planes).
With it's proposed 30 domains of dread being covered, each with adventure hooks, etc... I could see them doing a similar thing with the each of the planes.

(basically the formula that's worked so well with the MtG books)
 


teitan

Legend
Saltmarsh is an adventure, not a setting, and could be anywhere.

Last time I played it, it was in Eberron.
Yes but it is technically a Greyhawk adventure since 1e.


Keoland according to the original authors.
 

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