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The Sundering has been described as a HUGE WORLD CHANGING event, with not only the tablets of fate being restored (and thus previously lost gods returning and shifting in power. You can see that in the PHB list and -per Mearls- even that is incomplete, as more gods have resurfaced), but also...

I know, and logic suggests that a setting book should be published at some point, but I can't get over this bad vibe that their silence gives me.

Yeah, Ed has written -and is still writing- a lot of stuff for the post-Sundering FR. I just hope that all his work won't be left collecting dust on a shelf. With this ''brand'' focus on WotC's side, with all their talk about not releasing sourcebooks (or releasing very few of them) because they...

Except that they are lore-light, they don't even come close to be regional sourcebooks. Also, AFAIK, Tyranny of Dragons mostly stays in the Sword Coast, just like the Elemental Evil is going to (according to what I've read, at least). Also, that format for FR lore is very restrictive, it's...

I think that this deserves a thread on its own, or to be posted in some of those Tyranny of Dragons megathreads.

If they have to bring back all that was removed with the ''cheese'' of the previous years, they will have to do so with more ''cheese'' (by working with what ''cheese'' they already have anyway). Thus the idea Sundering was born, the RSE to end them all, or whatever other buzzword they have for it.

Yeah, as I said, while restoration and logical might mean keeping the cheese (because it will always be there, short of a reboot), I'm going to not even try to have this ''Sundering'' make sense and look at it for what it actually is: a huge Deus ex Machina to bring back what was destroyed and...

That's why I'm giving the 5e FR a fair shot, but in my mind I see the Sundering as a masked reboot (which they won't explictly do because otherwise those precious post-SP Drizzt's adventures would become non canon). I just don't try to figure it out how it can make sense anymore, I simply read...

Honestly, even as a FR fan, at this point I don't care about ''purity'' or ''continuity''. Not only because FR has issues with its continuity, but because -as others have already stated in this thread- the setting has turned into a mess of random godly drama, explosions and cataclysms and...

On the matter of novel sales, I don't know whether they as a whole are the bulk of their D&D income or not. It's more likely that Drizzt alone gets WotC more than the rest of FR. I say this because they drastically cut down the number of yearly novel releases to 3 books, and 2 of them are always...

I must say that, while I agree that the FR does indeed exaggerate with the number of highly powerful NPCs, what you are pointing out could happen anywhere. It is just natural that if you are a low or mid level adventurer there are going to be people who are more powerful, knowledgeable and...

Heh, the Shade flying enclave crashed on Myth Drannor as a result of the events in ''The Herald''. However -according to an article released on the WotC site- due to the spread layout of the City of Song, the damage has been contained and the place can still be rebuilt.

Hard to tell, since we don't have enough info on how the 5e FR will look like. However, from all their talking, it seems that the post-Sundering Realms will get a lot of their previous features and familiar faces back in addition to the overall ''feel'', to the point that the Grey Box could...

Yeah, the matter about the number of deities is pretty subjective. Thing is that the Realms are polytheistic like that, it's one of their characteristics. The good thing is that deities deemed superfluous can easily be ignored without WotC having to remove them from the published setting...

No one but WotC has solid and concrete data. However the fact that WotC has announced their intention (at least in words) to bring back a lot of the familiar faces of the old Realms, the old feel and so on, is a strong hint that 4e FR didn't do as they expected. All the authors talk about the...

Yeah, I wouldn't have been turned away by the removal of the uber NPCs (but -considering this line of action- they have been somewhat hypocritical in leaving Elminster, Drizzt and Storm, the holiest among the holy cows. They had to keep milking them, I guess). I don't mind their presence and...

Sorry for laughing at your post, @sanishiver, I didn't mean it, I misclicked the button (edit: nvm, found out that the action can be undone). Back to the reply, so you are saying that a player's expectations would never clash with what their DM may want to do when playing -say- in Eberron? To...

@sanishiver Well, that goes for any setting. Ofc players have expectation and those may clash with whatever thing the DM wants to do with the setting they're using for their campaign. What you describe is a totally generic thing. However you don't smash a setting for something -IMO- so trivial...

I cannot say anything about this, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was true, it's just corporate PR working as intended. Also using a ''hand off'' approach would be same as saying that the Realms won't receive any relevant support (they will only put out some generic adventure and like 3...

[/COLOR] WotC's discarding Ed's lore is what I too fear (even tho seeing it released in the form of online articles could work for me). However, my original post to gyor was to tell him that -from what I've seen- it seems to me that there is enough substance about the post-Sundering Realms...