D&D 5E (2024) How excited are you for the 2 upcoming Forgotten Realms books?

[Bae'zel]

Quite excited, surprisingly.

I had never cared for the Forgotten Realms prior to my experiences with Baldur's Gate 3. Ironically, my obsession has finally waned, but I'm already planning a campaign set in Faerun this Winter (with other BG3 fans).

The timing is perfect.

 

[CleverNickName]

I voted for the "Meh" option. It's nothing against Forgotten Realms itself, I'm just not very interested in any published campaign settings. I've used the same homebrew campaign setting for almost a decade and I'm not really looking to change it.

That said: I'm always looking for inspiration, and WotC makes a good product, so I might pick it up and page through it. But it's not on my Must Have list.

 

[Aldarc]

Should I be excited?

 

[Hexmage-EN]

I put A Little. If I was a Forgotten Realms fan in general I might be more excited, but what changed this set of products for me from a pass to a likely purchase is presenting several far-flung locations as mini-settings intended primarily for certain kinds of campaigns and the new player-facing content.

 

[ART!]

I have no investment in FR per se, other than it's where most of WOTC's adventures take place there and my group has played through a numbe rof those. I've never read an FR novels and haven't played any D&D video games (which seem to mostly be set there as well)

 

[Smackpixi]

So, a little. But part of the drag is having Icewind Dale and Baulder’s Gate of two out of 5. Both have been done recently in campaign books so feels like filler. Maybe they want the chance for do over, and ofc Baulder’s Gate has a reason, but 2 of 5 are not new stuff (even if what they do is new stuff, has been done). So that’s a waste to me. Excited about the other three. But excited because I loved SCAG. For as much hate as it gets, it’s awesome if it’s your intro to the Sword Coast. It’s less good if you own all the old much more specific and detailed FR setting books and had 30 years in on setting books and novels.

So, that’s also a drag on enthusiasm for me, how impossible it will be to please FR obsessed people, so people I like will hate on it, and bum me out.

I’m excited for new parts of FR getting 5e opened. It’s gonna be pretty vague, as is WOTCs plan with settings now. They very much like to present possibilities rather than say, 10,457 people live in this city. They more, could have 10k or 500 depending on how you’d like to play it.

I think some cool people will put out some great adventures on DMs Guild following release of these books.

I’m very curious, but I think the reveal will be pretty middling.

Give 0 care if player options are good or not. And frankly, what is a good new subclass? SCAG’s were nice, themed okish, but not exactly OP, but, are OP options good?

 

[THEMNGMNT]

I don't get it.

These two books have the greatest page count of any Forgotten Realms campaign setting in at least 20 years. Or maybe ever.

Controversial changes to the Realms (from, like, 2008) have been rolled back in favor of a more "evergreen" approach.

If you don't like something in the books you can just, you know, change it. Because that's what Dungeon Masters do.

And the production values are going to be better than ever.

But some people are still mad.

I kind of feel bad for the designers at Wizards.

 

[Scribe]

Controversial changes to the Realms (from, like, 2008) have been rolled back in favor of a more "evergreen" approach.

Have they? If so, whats up with the PDK?

 

[Demetrios1453]

Have they? If so, whats up with the PDK?

They're talking about the rollback of much bigger controversial changes, such as rearranging/removing large portions of the continent and the world, removing well-known (even beloved) cities/nations/regions, and adding much-derided new cities/nations/regions (although I imagine Tymanther at least will stay in some form). Compared to these, the changes in the PDK are like a mere candle vs the sun.

 

[Scribe]

They're talking about much bigger controversial changes, such as rearranging/removing large portions of the continent and the world, removing well-known (even beloved) cities/nations/regions, and adding much-derided new cities/nations/regions (although I imagine Tymanther at least will stay in some form). Compared to these, the changes in the PDK are like a mere candle vs the sun.

Without a doubt, a multi author series was commissioned to undo the damage of 4e.

That doesn't mean we have a safe evergreen setting however.