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WotC/Hasbro's goal is to make sure that, in the next couple of years, the D&D brand will generate more profit than it has during the last couple of years. They have decided that a light release schedule of RPG products is the way to achieve that. I'm not sure it will work, nor am I convinced...

I'd say that it's "pale plum"

There are only three classes that don't cast spells in 5e. It seems to me that it would require a lot more than just "tweaking" Of course I guess it depends on your definition of "low magic". Me, I'm thinking of something like The One Ring.

Is D&D really the best RPG system to run a low magic fantasy campaign?

Obviously. I'm not sure if it's such a bad thing for gamers, though.

Me too! But the reason it felt magical was that I was a child back then.

You mean... like Gnomes?

My bad. Thank you and sorry for the confusion.

We are all Kosh.

Well, for one thing, magic is not literally gone from the game. There is a magic system, magic items, magic spells. Figuratively speaking, one of the goals of the designers was to make magic feel special again - magic items especially. So it's hard for me to understand where miniaturehoarder is...

The Realms are exactly what you expect: dwarves are dwarves, elves are elves, there are small villages surrounded by orcs, noble kings and brave knights, dungeons everywhere, etc. People keep saying that the history is dense and complex, and it's true, but FR's history is just a series of...

I am arguing that. How easy would that be, really? Please try it. How could additional fantasy settings be defined as "bloat"?

What do you mean? I'm not sure I understand.

You've now stretched the definition of "bloat" so far that is has become synonymous with "rules." That's preposterous. One could imagine, for example, a whole book with nothing but new rules about ships, navigation, sea hazards and underwater magic and it would add nothing to the Dreaded Bloat...

Wasn't there something like that in the 4e Forgotten Realms sourcebook? I seem to remember that the book started with a short adventure and the description of a small town.

I'm sorry, me not native speaker, me may have unintentionally used wrong connotation or offensive terminology.

Yes, you can love both of them, but they're very different beasts which may appeal to very different tasts, and hating one of them is a perfectly valid point of view.

I think it's quite clear that WotC intends to focus on the Realms exclusively in their big campaigns. I don't think they will release any setting book for 5e.

In my old campaign, arcane magic was illegal, while divine magic was highly encouraged.

I see nothing wrong with that. In fact, I'd love it if I could buy something from WotC for DM appreciation month.