D&D 5E Crystal Ball: A year in, how do you think 5E will unfold going forward?

[Corpsetaker]

Nowhere in his posts did he suggest that there was a ton of 'realms detail'. There is however a lot of content. Just because it doesn't cater specifically to your narrow 'needs' doesn't negate that fact. PoTA has a lot of adventures/NPC's etc that can be used in and/or outside of the FR with basically no effort.

What do you mean my narrow needs? It's a Forgotten Realms product which doesn't have a lot of FR content in it. It doesn't have lot's of adventures in it. It has some encounters and places to go but that's it. I'm not even sure you actually read it from the sounds of it.

 

[Corpsetaker]

Are you serious?

The realms are just a backdrop. If anything its Greyhawk material that's in there.

You're telling me that you are incapable of taking chapter 6 for example and running that outside the realms?

You can run any of it outside the Realms but the overall story is poor. Also, I want Forgotten Realms material. I don't want a little sprinkle here and there mixed in with a corny storyline.

 

[cmad1977]

You can run any of it outside the Realms but the overall story is poor. Also, I want Forgotten Realms material. I don't want a little sprinkle here and there mixed in with a corny storyline.

This is what I mean by narrow needs.

 

[Parmandur]

Actually, the Gazetteer for the Dessarin valley is pretty extensive...

 

[Corpsetaker]

This is what I mean by narrow needs.

It's not narrow, it's the main setting that Wizards is going with while all others get a tiny paragraph about how to incorporate it.

 

[DaveDash]

You can run any of it outside the Realms but the overall story is poor. Also, I want Forgotten Realms material. I don't want a little sprinkle here and there mixed in with a corny storyline.

What does the story matter? A splat book doesn't have a story.

Again you're incorrectly reading it as an AP, when it's not. You can choose to run it as such, or you have a vast array of mini adventures that you can pick out of it and drop anywhere, if you think the story sucks.

 

[Corpsetaker]

What does the story matter? A splat book doesn't have a story.

Again you're incorrectly reading it as an AP, when it's not. You can choose to run it as such, or you have a vast array of mini adventures that you can pick out of it and drop anywhere, if you think the story sucks.

It is an AP. Do you not know what an Adventure Path is? Also, I don't want the story, I want a FR campaign guide that I can use to find out what happened after the Sundering and then create my own stories. These AP's are just other worldly stories shoe horned into the Realms. They are trying to make these AP's into supplement books as well and they do a poor job of both.

 

[Parmandur]

It's not narrow, it's the main setting that Wizards is going with while all others get a tiny paragraph about how to incorporate it.

20-30 pages, as opposed to two each for other settings. It's tightly focused on the river valley, but it's not nothing.

 

[cmad1977]

It is an AP. Do you not know what an Adventure Path is? Also, I don't want the story, I want a FR campaign guide that I can use to find out what happened after the Sundering and then create my own stories. These AP's are just other worldly stories shoe horned into the Realms. They are trying to make these AP's into supplement books as well and they do a poor job of both.

Who cares what happened after the Sundering. Make your own stories.

 

[Parmandur]

Who cares what happened after the Sundering. Make your own stories.

I got a used copy of the 3E book and am just setting the APs then. Works so far.