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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Epic Meepo" data-source="post: 9445053" data-attributes="member: 57073">Great Minds Think Alike......and fools all think the same.Breaking news from Wizards of the Coast. They have just unveiled a previously unannounced product: the Forgotten Realms Player Guide, scheduled for release in late 2025. Needless to say, this throws a bit of a wrench in my plans, since my working title for my book includes the words "Player's Guide," and I don't want to be competing with Wizards of the Coast for that design space. I will need to decide on a more suitable working title and change the title of this thread to match.Thankfully, I'm confident my guide contains plenty of material not covered by any upcoming WotC product. Every indication is that the official player guide will focus much of its attention on western Faerun. That leaves room for me to explore other parts of Faerun in more detail. I'm also fairly confident the official guide won't have too much to say about Kara-Tur or Zakhara. I suspect 80% or more of the material I've written will go unmentioned in any upcoming official product.Ideally, I would just structure my book in a way that supplements the official campaign setting. Complicating that effort is the fact that my book is a few months away from completion and the official campaign setting won't be released for over a year. Obviously, I have no way of coordinating my efforts with WotC, so working to supplement their products instead of competing with them will entail significant production delays. I may or may not be able to avoid that.As it happens, I do have a contingency plan for this exact situation. It's an option of last resort, as it will be time consuming and resource intensive, but I did anticipate the possibility that a future Forgotten Realms campaign setting product could drop before I finished my book. If absolutely necessary, I can pivot what I'm working on to avoid any overlap with upcoming campaign setting material. I'll provide more information about that plan if I need to use it.</blockquote>

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