D&D (2024) Forgotten Realms Player Guide

[Morrus]

"Part of our re-imagining of these core books was also wanting to return to D&D's most popular setting--the Forgotten Realms."

The Forgotten Realms Guide is the first player's guide other than the setting in 5th edition. This will be two books, one for Dungeon Masters, one for players.

New player options, new subclasses, new feats, new backgrounds, new spells, new kinds of spells, factions like the Harpers or the Red Wizards of Thay.

The Dungeon Master's book digs into different parts of the Realms--Baldur's Gate for urban fantasy, Iceland Dale for survival horror, isolated towns, a giant elvish mega dungeon, fairy stories and conflict which can be resolved without violence in the Moonshae Isles, and the land of Kalimshan. Each delivers a different play style.

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[TravDoc42]

Impeccable title for this thread!

Also, the friend of mine who got me into D&D was a big FR guy. Unfortunately, he passed away a few years ago, so I won't get to know from him if it passes the test when it comes out. From what I've seen, it looks neat, but I wish him and I could have read this together.

 

[Zaukrie]

Great art!

I mean, I love the Moonshaes....

 

[schneeland]

Now that I have stopped playing 5e, now they bring out the new FRCS - great!

But seriously, I think it's a good decision to finally have a comprehensive starting point for DMs running games in the Forgotten Realms again.

 

[Mercador]

I'm onboard, I love the FR lore. I didn't purchase the FR DND5 book as it didn't get rave reviews but I still have my DND2 book with Elminster on the cover. I would have expect that WotC would try to profit of the popularity of BG3 to do something earlier than that.

 

[eyeheartawk]

Wait, does this mean I have to retire the image I post in every FR thread...including this one?

 

[jhallum]

Yay, but boo? I feel like the post spell plague realms is a bit of a dumpster fire. Hopefully they resolve a bit of it? Wonder if any old hands will come back to help write it?

 

[ngenius]

Remembered? Has Forgotten Realms ever gone away? 4th Edition had two books. 5th had many Adventure Books like Dungeon of the Mad Mage, Baldur's Gate Avernus and Icewind Dale Frostmaiden, but obviously no books titled Forgotten Realms.

 

[JDR]

Sorry, but this art is just plain awful. Please tell me these are works in progress.

 

[Mercador]

So on point! Yeah, the majority of the FR content is the Sword Coast. The first FR novels were going elsewhere like Cormyr. There are a lot of map to cover, no need to do everything in Neverwinter.