D&D (2024) Forgotten Realms Player Guide

[TiQuinn]

Something something Mystra died something something Elminister something something Mystra is reborn!

Big dimensional rift with magic exploding and continents shifting and it all gets put back in a box again and that’s why there’s Dragonborn and no more assassins, and the party thief is now the god of murder.

 

[Demetrios1453]

So what Realms Shaking Event do you think they will use this time to justify the setting changes they plan to do to FR?

None. It's not a new edition, so no need for it. Remember, 2e to 3e didn't have any major changes either (Bane didn't come back until well into 3e, and even then, that's hardly "Realms-shaking").

 

[Henadic Theologian]

None. It's not a new edition, so no need for it. Remember, 2e to 3e didn't have any major changes either (Bane didn't come back until well into 3e, and even then, that's hardly "Realms-shaking").

It's a minor edition change, very few now believe it's not an edition change at this point.

3e come after Vecna missed with the universe at the end 2e

And no major change?!?!, in 2e the Forgotten Realms was part of the same universe DL, GH, PS, SJ, etc... we're part of, in 3e it was broke off and became it's own separate Multiverse and you could only move between multiverses via the deepest parts of the Plane of Shadows, even a Planeshift Spell would not get you to say Bytopia from Toril.

Changes do not get bigger then that.

 

[bloodtide]

So what Realms Shaking Event do you think they will use this time to justify the setting changes they plan to do to FR?

Seems obvious:

The D&D Metaverse will collapse in to One True Setting. With all the 'old' settings now on one big Metaplanet. So the Forgotten Realms will be a 'region' with everything else.

Then you can mix and match everything from every region into the One True Setting. So your Kender Red Wizard Perserver can fly a Spelljammer into the Ravenloft Abyss with Magic Cards!

 

[Jolly Ruby]

None, metaplot is dead.

As much as I would like to believe it, I doubt the Forgotten Realms novels will be set on 1492 DR forever

 

[Parmandur]

As much as I would like to believe it, I doubt the Forgotten Realms novels will be set on 1492 DR forever

The last one had no date anywhere I could see (The Fallbacks, who I expect will appear in these books to some degree).

 

[Rushbolt]

This is a really clever way of releasing a Players Handbook 2 without calling it that. The 2024 PH does have all the stuff you need to play in it and a decent number of subclasses, but this is basically how you release the expanded rules without calling them that. Most games have a default world and it’s a pretty good idea to have your expanded rules just be tied to that world.

 

[Parmandur]

This is a really clever way of releasing a Players Handbook 2 without calling it that. The 2024 PH does have all the stuff you need to play in it and a decent number of subclasses, but this is basically how you release the expanded rules without calling them that. Most games have a default world and it’s a pretty good idea to have your expanded rules just be tied to that world.

Yup, just about everything FR specific can be filed off and put in Greyhawk or the average homebrew easily.

 

[see]

Remember, 2e to 3e didn't have any major changes either (Bane didn't come back until well into 3e

Hmm? Bane was already back as of the original 3e Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting book. Check page 237.

 

[AkeishaRoberts]

Definitely pleased to see that there will be updated materials for the Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms settings!