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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6527999" data-attributes="member: 7006">Well, here's the thing.  The 5E FR takes place something like 10 years after the 4E FR campaign book (1479 DR).  And just by taking a look at the Timeline on the Forgotten Realms Wiki for each of those ten years (1479-1489), not a whole varied amount of stuff has happened that has already been documented (via novels and such.)  Which means that while the Sundering has occurred and from what we understand the Tablets of Fate have been remade (bringing some dead gods back)... we don't really know how much *new* story has really occurred for the entirety of Faerun.Has enough of Faerun changed in these past 10 years to warrant requiring a new re-write of the 4E Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide?  That's the question.  It seems to me... the one advantage they have to waiting on a new guide until *after* these smaller-scale events like Tyranny of Dragons and Elemental Evil occur (both in the hardcover adventure paths plus all the AL modules and such), and for more of the novels, comic book, and video games to get released... is that perhaps then enough locations across the continent will have seen changes enough to warrant being re-written over whatever we could get from the 4E guide.Instead... if only pockets of the Realms have seen major changes over these past 10 years... meaning that like 75% of the Realms fluff has not actually changed all that much over what we have in the 4E book... then it turns into a kind of rip-off product to just copy-paste large sections of that book and put it into the 5E one (just so the small sections that HAVE seen changes, like the Shadovar, can get detailed).  I suspect we'd see quite a bit of complaints from people if that new campaign guide really ended up being more of a 4.5, rather than a true 5E.Maybe I'm wrong, and maybe they do have enough changes to warrant a new guide at this point.  But at least by waiting until 2016 they'll have several more products and novels out that could help make the 5E Realms campaign book truly different than its predecessor.</blockquote>

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