D&D (2024) Forgotten Realms Player Guide

[Demetrios1453]

None of the Subclasses tested thus far were Thayan: I do expect we will see a Red Wizard Background and Irigin Feat similar to the Level 1 Feat in the 3E FRCS.

Sorry, got the Circle Magic feature that will be in the book mixed up with the subclasses. As Circle Magic is closely associated with the Red Wizards, that's the Thayan connection I was working off of.

I think we will see that the 5 areas detailed in the DM Guide will line up very similar to the Greyhawk City and Region Gazateer in the DMG, content wise. The designers told @Christian Hoffer recently that each of those regions is getting a set of low-prep Adventure outlines similar to those in the DMG.

But, will there be future books detailing low-prep locations mapped to FR locations that match them, like the ones I listed? Thus working double duty by detailing interesting Realms locations as well as giving homebrewing DMs inspiration for creating their own similar regions, like this book presumably will?

 

[Parmandur]

Sorry, got the Circle Magic feature that will be in the book mixed up with the subclasses. As Circle Magic is closely associated with the Red Wizards, that's the Thayan connection I was working off of.

Ah, I see. Circle Magic in the FRCS was handled by a Feat chain starting with either the Red Wizard Level 1 Feat or the "Rashmeni Witch" Level 1 Feat, and that seems probsvle for how they bring it back here.I expect we will see a lot of Backgrounds in the Player's book, and plenty of Feats.

But, will there be future books detailing low-prep locations mapped to FR locations that match them, like the ones I listed? Thus working double duty by detailing interesting Realms locations as well as giving homebrewing DMs inspiration for creating their own similar regions, like this book presumably will?

Probably, though maybe not just drawing from the FR specifically: it has been a few years since they have used the FR as thw default for Campaign books, Phandelver is the only one since 2020.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

And, on a slightly different note, do you think the DM's Guide is a trial balloon for future books that will feature iconic Realms areas that can be cut-and-pasted and used as inspiration for similarly-themed areas for homebrew?

I don't know of any reason to believe this is true, although I'm sure the marketing team will say it for a few weeks.

(Much like they said that sidekick classes could be used as PC classes when Tasha's came out, although them never putting sidekick classes into D&D Beyond's PC character builder suggests that, nah, they really didn't believe that internally.)

 

[SkidAce]

Sorry, got the Circle Magic feature that will be in the book mixed up with the subclasses. As Circle Magic is closely associated with the Red Wizards, that's the Thayan connection I was working off of.



But, will there be future books detailing low-prep locations mapped to FR locations that match them, like the ones I listed? Thus working double duty by detailing interesting Realms locations as well as giving homebrewing DMs inspiration for creating their own similar regions, like this book presumably will?

Think the Circle magic will differ from what Greenwood put in here?

Thay Land Of The Red Wizards - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild

Thay Land Of The Red Wizards - Known to the wider Forgotten Realms® as a sinister land of Red Wizards, slavers, and marching undead armies, Thay is th

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[Henadic Theologian]

Think the Circle magic will differ from what Greenwood put in here?

Thay Land Of The Red Wizards - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild

Thay Land Of The Red Wizards - Known to the wider Forgotten Realms® as a sinister land of Red Wizards, slavers, and marching undead armies, Thay is th

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Honestly I don't know, except there are specific new kinds of Spells that utilize it, although I do think it can enhance existing PHB spells, as hinted by the suggestion that circle magic can make spells permanent.