Or are we forever more stuck with Sword Coast and the rest of the world ignored?
Will WOTC ever redo Matzica, Karatur and any other problematic regions based on real world history?
Thats the key question in my mind. Will they, or will they just ignore it for the next 20 years?
Lets assume they ignore it. Is it possible for Candlekeep historians to work with Ed to redo those regions into something that we can all be proud of? Get some content that everyone who cares about the realms can get behind, promote, and be the true replacement?
Or is it just that nobody cares anymore about FR, and similar to Critical Role, its better everyone builds their own world and there is no longer a common shared world experience.
It's coming in 2024.
1. Everytime a new edition comes out the Forgotten Realms gets a new Campaign Setting book (and sometimes alot more).
2. Ray has said the setting book revisit is in 2024, and the revisit is obviously the Forgotten Realms, via a mix of the process of elimination and the fact that SCAG didn't get the job done, it was too small.
3. They are radically changing a lot of humaniod races like Drow, Orcs, Gnolls, Kobolds, Gobliniods, making them more diverse culturally, so that is a major setting change that will need to be explore. For example the new Lorendrow, Aevendrow, and Unadrow division including new cities will need to be explored. The really needs a FRCS5.5e to explore
4. The year before in 2023 the Forgotten Realms movie comes out, they will want to incorporate it's events into the FRCS 5.5e and to milk new FR fans generated by the movie.
5. The Forgotten Realms will have even more MtG art by then to milk for the project
6. It's been a long time by 2024 since the last FR setting book came out and the SCAG is by far the oldest and most flawed setting book in D&D 5e, because it's too small with mechanics that needed more public playtesting.
7. The Forgotten Realms is WotC's most popular setting and even with how hostile the MtG scene was to none MtG settings in D&D, it was the most profitable MtG summer set ever for example. Just as they are redoing the core books are getting new versions for 5.5e, same for FR.