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

[pming]

Hiya!

I don't like the Realms...not the 'newer' version anyway (and by 'newer' I'm referring to everything after the original 1e grey box set circa 1987). That said...

I voted "Yes". For purely selfishly innocent hope. I figure if they come out with a FR box/book...then the other, better imho, campaign settings will get worked on and produced. I'm both curious and terrified of what they would do with Greyhawk, Dark Sun, and Birthright in particular.

Would I buy a FR box/book for 5e? Almost guaranteed "No", because when I did use the Phandelver adventure booklet from the Starter Set (which, honestly, I thought was pretty cool, simple, and open-ended), I used my 1e grey box FR set (and the dozen or so extra FR books for it). But get an FR box/book out there, then move on to other settings that deserve at least as much attention. IMHO, of course.

^_^

Paul L. Ming

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Do you want a Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide

I don't know what to choose. My answer is: Not until at least one other setting gets published 5e material.

 

[CapnZapp]

Something like a Grand Tour of the Realms

Please keep Jeremy Clarkson out of my Realms. Thank you

 

[gyor]

I want it because:
I mostly play in the FR and want/need a complete guide and not only pieces of information in different novels/books. I want to know what's going on without having to make an investigation.
3rd era FRCS was awesome and I could use that kind of book in 5era, SCAG is like a player's handbook and I need more to create a good adventure for my players.
If it goes well we can have hope to see something similar with Dark Sun (or your other favorite setting).
Most ap have place for custom material that could be better done with a good guide/CS.

This, 100% this.

 

[gyor]

I went with yes, though I do still have my 3E campaign guide which is awesome. It provides more than enough for me to run FR games for the rest of my life. So I'll say "yes" with the caveat of "eventually". If they can add interesting things to FR while keeping the level of detail that the 3E version had (complete with trade/trade routes), I'd be all for it. I'd like to see some other campaign worlds get a guide first though. I'd like to see Dragon Lance and Dark Sun brought back into the spotlight before more FR.

I don't see getting say Dragonlance or Darksun Campaign guides before FR, because FR fans would freak out. If you want other settings, it would make sense to push for FRCG now, to get past it as it were.

 

[MechaPilot]

I don't see getting say Dragonlance or Darksun Campaign guides before FR, because FR fans would freak out. If you want other settings, it would make sense to push for FRCG now, to get past it as it were.

Virtually everything to date has been aimed right at FR fans. FR has already had 270+ supplements and novels written about it. If FR fans can't tolerate a little spreading of the love, then it reflects poorly on them.

 

[MechaPilot]

I want it because:
I mostly play in the FR and want/need a complete guide and not only pieces of information in different novels/books. I want to know what's going on without having to make an investigation.
3rd era FRCS was awesome and I could use that kind of book in 5era, SCAG is like a player's handbook and I need more to create a good adventure for my players.
If it goes well we can have hope to see something similar with Dark Sun (or your other favorite setting).
Most ap have place for custom material that could be better done with a good guide/CS.

If you want a book like the 3e FRCS, you could just use the 3e FRCS. I highly doubt the aftermath of the Sundering is so awesome that a new FRCS is truly needed.

 

[Shasarak]

Virtually everything to date has been aimed right at FR fans. FR has already had 270+ supplements and novels written about it. If FR fans can't tolerate a little spreading of the love, then it reflects poorly on them.

Remember that it is not the FR fans that get to decide what WotC publish, so if WotC dont want to "spread the love" then whose fault is that?

 

[MechaPilot]

Remember that it is not the FR fans that get to decide what WotC publish, so if WotC dont want to "spread the love" then whose fault is that?

FR fans, through the market, do get to decide what WotC publishes. FR, for better or worse, is the most popular setting WotC owns, and its material sells. WotC knows that the FR setting is second in popularity only to the various Homewbew settings of the fanbase (which WotC obviously cannot monetize through CS books), and that's why FR is the default WotC has chosen for 5e.

But, FR has been done to death, and then some. As I mentioned, if you just count official releases, FR has had 270+ supplements/novels released to support it and flesh it out, with the 3e FRCS book widely being recognized as one of the best FR setting books (with some holding it up as the standard for setting books in general). If you want material for FR, there is already an immense wealth of material available to you.

Even setting aside my personal distaste for FR, I would much rather see something new than a rehash of something that has already been covered so thoroughly and so "well."

And I know people will say, "but, we don't have a post-sundering FRCS. We need to know the state of FR post sundering." To that I can only say this:

1) every setting cataclysm is a ploy to sell more FR material covering the same old areas,
2) you are in no way required to set your FR games post-sundering; and
3) WotC probably doesn't even know the post sundering state of large swaths of FR, and the differences likely won't be awesome or redefining in any substantial way.

 

[gyor]

FR fans, through the market, do get to decide what WotC publishes. FR, for better or worse, is the most popular setting WotC owns, and its material sells. WotC knows that the FR setting is second in popularity only to the various Homewbew settings of the fanbase (which WotC obviously cannot monetize through CS books), and that's why FR is the default WotC has chosen for 5e.

But, FR has been done to death, and then some. As I mentioned, if you just count official releases, FR has had 270+ supplements/novels released to support it and flesh it out, with the 3e FRCS book widely being recognized as one of the best FR setting books (with some holding it up as the standard for setting books in general). If you want material for FR, there is already an immense wealth of material available to you.

Even setting aside my personal distaste for FR, I would much rather see something new than a rehash of something that has already been covered so thoroughly and so "well."

And I know people will say, "but, we don't have a post-sundering FRCS. We need to know the state of FR post sundering." To that I can only say this:

1) every setting cataclysm is a ploy to sell more FR material covering the same old areas,
2) you are in no way required to set your FR games post-sundering; and
3) WotC probably doesn't even know the post sundering state of large swaths of FR, and the differences likely won't be awesome or redefining in any substantial way.

Heretic, of course I have to know, the consquences of the Sunder are massive!