D&D 5E Do you want a Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide?

[Cyrinishad]

Which is like saying 'want to learn about current Germany? Here's a guide to the german empire in 1881 for only half price. Come on, how much could have changed? Maybe you'll be lucky enough to glimpse the Kaiser when you get there'

Even though he's making a joke, Mirtek's point is important as to why a 5e FRCG is essential. Having bits of lore parced through various APs & SCAG still leaves too much up in the air for people that want to run their Realms game anywhere beyond the Sword Coast... or attempt to tie previous campaigns to the current timeline. If the time-jump to 5e was merely a decade instead of a century, I can see the 3e FRCG as being a viable resource for current games.

 

[MechaPilot]

Which is like saying 'want to learn about current Germany? Here's a guide to the german empire in 1881 for only half price. Come on, how much could have changed? Maybe you'll be lucky enough to glimpse the Kaiser when you get there'

Germany exists, and without a time machine you are forced to visit modern-day Germany. FR does not exist, and games played there can occur at any point in the setting's history or future that you choose to play them.

Also, the historical changes to Germany have actually occurred, and are in the past. The state of vast sections of FR post sunderung haven't been made up yet, and therefore do not exist at this time.

 

[dagger]

Hence the need for a new FRCS

 

[MechaPilot]

What if you want to campaign outside the Sword Coast and the North, you simply don't have the intel to do so.

Which could easily be said about every single campaign setting in existence. You have mountains of FR material covering several cataclysms and virtual eons of time, but it's just not good enough I guess. How many different ways do you want them to beat the same undead horse and feed recycled candy corn back to you?

 

[Eubani]

I am near completely in the dark on the events of the sundering and post sundering. What happened with the gods, who is ruling where, what is happening with the bad guys bot classic and new, what political powers are having issues with each other, what new political powers are there? So many questions yet all we get is....here is a small section after all this time. I'm glad some of you think this is good enough but for me it is not.

 

[Mercule]

Only if it means they're done with the Realms in 5E (for now) and will start using other settings. Whatever it takes to reduce support for the Realms.

Otherwise, no. Again, whatever it takes to reduce the prevalence of the Realms.

 

[MechaPilot]

Hence the need for a new FRCS

Hence the WANT for one. Want is not need. You have everything you NEED to play in FR. Just as I have everything I NEED to play in Ravenloft. By way of contrast, artificers and warforged are so much a part of Eberron that we do not have have what we NEED to play there.

 

[MechaPilot]

I am near completely in the dark on the events of the sundering and post sundering. What happened with the gods, who is ruling where, what is happening with the bad guys bot classic and new, what political powers are having issues with each other, what new political powers are there? So many questions yet all we get is....here is a small section after all this time. I'm glad some of you think this is good enough but for me it is not.

Why do you feel it's necessary to play post sundering? You have mountains of existing info on various timeframes that, presumably, you have enjoyed enough to make you love the setting.

 

[Eubani]

Why do you feel it's necessary to play post sundering? You have mountains of existing info on various timeframes that, presumably, you have enjoyed enough to make you love the setting.

Is because I want to not enough?

 

[cbwjm]

I actually think SCAG is enough. I actually wonder if part of the reason is that they want people to be able to tell their own stories in FR rather than feeling beholden to the lore.