D&D 5E What of the already done settings do you think WotC is revisiting for a Setting Book?

[Parmandur]

Considering every annual adventure published is for FR, this isn't exactly a surprise.

In the history of D&D publishing, the Forgotten Realms rising to the top is more a matter of natural selection in the wake of TSR throwing everything against the wall to see what stuck in the 90's: the FR is what stuck. Not an intentional design, because TSR tried everything. Perkins, in the interview already linked goes into why FR products work for homebrewers, and by extension standard play at most tables.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

In the history of D&D publishing, the Forgotten Realms rising to the top is more a matter of natural selection in the wake of TSR throwing everything against the wall to see what stuck in the 90's: the FR is what stuck. Not an intentional design, because TSR tried everything. Perkins, in the interview already linked goes into why FR products work for homebrewers, and by extension standard play at most tables.

I won't deny FR is popular, but in a 5E context, it's undeniable that the biggest reason for FR's 5E popularity is due to nearly every published adventure being published explicitly in the FR setting.

 

[Parmandur]

I won't deny FR is popular, but in a 5E context, it's undeniable that the biggest reason for FR's 5E popularity is due to nearly every published adventure being published explicitly in the FR setting.

Right, but the popularity and homebrew compatability came first: admittedly it is a feedback loop, but it became fairly inevitable by the time WotC was involved with D&D.

 

[Neko Princex]

As old as the information is for the Forgotten Realms coverage is from SCAG and how hyperfocused that book is on one region of the world, I would really hope that the FR gets revisited and with coverage touching on core points of the greater world.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Keep an eye out for a possible World/Planesalker Guide for this set, it MIGHT give you a taste of what to expect if I'm right and the revisit is FR.

 

[Parmandur]

Keep an eye out for a possible World/Planesalker Guide for this set, it MIGHT give you a taste of what to expect if I'm right and the revisit is FR.

They do a little world guide fir every Set. It is usually nor huge or anything.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

They do a little world guide fir every Set. It is usually nor huge or anything.

I'm not expecting huge, but it might have so new info in it and a new map of Faerun. Seriously I would settle for a really good map of all of Faerun with major cities on it, like the Swordcoast got in Storm Kings Thunder.

I mean in Strixhaven's Planeswalker Guide we got a map of the Vastlands the main contentient.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

No, but it might have so new info in it and a new map of Faerun. Seriously I would settle for a really good map of all of Faerun with major cities on it, like the Swordcoast got in Storm Kings Thunder.

Yeah, I don't think that's happening. Does this set even mention anything beyond the Sword Coast?

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Yeah, I don't think that's happening. Does this set even mention anything beyond the Sword Coast?

Yes, for example Red Wizards of Thay.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Yes, for example Red Wizards of Thay.

The Red Wizards of Thay are in SCAG, page 141.