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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ilbranteloth" data-source="post: 6967543" data-attributes="member: 6778044">They covered a lot of the post-Sundering in SCAG, although in a fairly high-level way. But from what I can see, in the APs and SCAG, along with tweets and interviews from those at WotC, the new approach seems to be:1) Don't reprint stuff that's already out there. The 3.5e FRCS was great, but a significant chunk of it was copy and paste from earlier materials. 2) Don't get too deep in the lore and events so they won't interfere with everybody's home campaigns. I would like to see a return to the Current Clack style of updates, particularly in the style of the 1e products where they are truly just adventure hooks rather than always tying into novels and such. Some of that (obviously tying into the APs) is OK, but it became a problem when DMs such as me would expand on one of the rumors, only for a later product to do the same.They also sort of released a FRCS shortly before 5e in Ed Greenwood Presents Elminster's Forgotten Realms and I suspect the success of that had something to do with the current direction of the Realms.Most importantly, with the DMsGuild open, I'm looking forward to what Ed Greenwood releases. My suspicion is that if his releases do very well, then the future of the world may end up largely in Ed's hands, with the WotC releases focusing on the APs and things of that nature. I would love if that were the case.Even better, if that does well, it paves the way for other settings to pick up where they left off with their most popular authors to put together not only updates to the setting, but to prove there is a customer base large enough for WotC to start publishing APs in those worlds.So I surprised myself in voting "no" because I've been looking forward to new material as well. But I guess that's really it, I want new material, not the stuff that was already in the first four Campaign Settings. The FR APs have detailed a lot of areas that haven't been covered in that depth before as well, and the SCAG filled in some holes in those. No, it's not as in depth as the older editions, but then I already have those.I can't wait for Ed's new Volo's Guide that's coming to the DMsGuild soon - I think that will help point a way to the future of Realms products.</blockquote>

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