D&D (2024) Forgotten Realms Player Guide

[Henadic Theologian]

Possible options:

Psionic spells
Elven high magic
Shadow (weave) magic
Spellfire
Cooperative magic

Could be all of them , he said new KINDS of Spells as in multiples new kinds of spells.

 

[cbwjm]

This might be worth getting even if I don't otherwise move into 2024. I hope it's good enough to rival the 3e FR campaign book which I think was one of the best books released by WotC.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

This might be worth getting even if I don't otherwise move into 2024. I hope it's good enough to rival the 3e FR campaign book which I think was one of the best books released by WotC.

Given that it's just zooming in on five areas, I wouldn't get rid of your 3E book any time soon. It might be good, it might be bad, but it's definitely not a replacement.

 

[pukunui]

This might be worth getting even if I don't otherwise move into 2024. I hope it's good enough to rival the 3e FR campaign book which I think was one of the best books released by WotC.

Given that it's just zooming in on four areas, I wouldn't get rid of your 3E book any time soon. It might be good, it might be bad, but it's definitely not a replacement.

Yeah, it's definitely not going to be as detailed as the 3e FRCS. (EDIT: WotC just doesn't do books that densely packed with content anymore.) It'll be closer to the Van Richten Ravenloft book, I think.

That being said, I could see them reintroducing the 3e FRCS' regional background feats as origin feats in this new FR book. That would be cool, cos we definitely are gonna need more origin feats sooner rather than later.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Given that it's just zooming in on four areas, I wouldn't get rid of your 3E book any time soon. It might be good, it might be bad, but it's definitely not a replacement.

That's the DM's guide that is focusing in on a handful of areas. We don't know what areas will/won't be covered in the player's guide. I assume (as a sheer guess) that it will be more comprehensive in scope, but much shallower in detail in what it covers. Or said wide but shallow coverage may be in the DM's guide, but isn't the focus (and thus unmentioned) like the in-depth regions.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

That's the DM's guide that is focusing in on a handful of areas. We don't know what areas will/won't be covered in the player's guide. I assume (as a sheer guess) that it will be more comprehensive in scope, but much shallower in detail in what it covers. Or said wide but shallow coverage may be in the DM's guide, but isn't the focus (and thus unmentioned) like the in-depth regions.

We'll find out in about ... 15 months?!

 

[Parmandur]

Yeah, it's definitely not going to be as detailed as the 3e FRCS. It'll be closer to the Van Richten Ravenloft book, I think.

That being said, I could see them reintroducing the 3e FRCS' regional background feats as origin feats in this new FR book. That would be cool, cos we definitely are gonna need more origin feats sooner rather than later.

Actually, given the split into two full hardcovers, I think it is way more likely that combined they can be comparable to the FRCS as a resource, they suggested their goal was to not repeat information between the books.

Just glancing at the regional Level 1 Feats from the FRCS...and a lot of them would fill conceptual gaps from the 2024 PHB, even ones that could be easily any world and not just Faerun.

 

[Parmandur]

That's the DM's guide that is focusing in on a handful of areas. We don't know what areas will/won't be covered in the player's guide. I assume (as a sheer guess) that it will be more comprehensive in scope, but much shallower in detail in what it covers. Or said wide but shallow coverage may be in the DM's guide, but isn't the focus (and thus unmentioned) like the in-depth regions.

They weren't really indicating thst the DM guide would fo us in on a few areas, they just shared a couple examples of what the FR has to offer. The Player's Guide can cover a lot of "general k owledge" lore while leaving nitty-gritty details and hooks to the DM's Guide...which SCAG had to pull double duty with a relatively sparse page count. Given that these two books make up such a ig part of the years releases, I reckon the page count will be less constricting.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Yeah, it's definitely not going to be as detailed as the 3e FRCS. It'll be closer to the Van Richten Ravenloft book, I think.

That being said, I could see them reintroducing the 3e FRCS' regional background feats as origin feats in this new FR book. That would be cool, cos we definitely are gonna need more origin feats sooner rather than later.

It's big enough that they had to split it into 2 books, the Factions, Spells, New Kinds of Spells, and Player Options in one, Setting and DM stuff in the other, so yeah it might be as detailed as FRCS, at minimum E: RftLW.

Here is how I see it, having just checked out the Chapters of E: RftLW, which I think will give us an idea of what to expect.

FRSG

Chapter 1: General Overview of Faerun and Believe (unlike E: RftLW the player options are in a separate book as are Factions), Biggest chapter.

Chapter 2: BG Focused about 30 pages roughly

Chapter 3: Icewind Dale Focus, about the same for amount of paged roughly. Mention the New Aevendrow city.

Chapter 4. Same as above for Dales and Myth Drannor (that is the big Elven Megadungeon most likely)

Chapter 5. Moonshae/Feywild Focused

Chapter 6. Monsters and NPCs of the Realms, say about 30 to 50 of them.

Chapter 7. Possibly items

Gods might have a separate Chapter, or be part of the overview. They said nothing about an adventure in the book, possibly to give more room for lore and because goodness knows there are plenty of FR adventures already.

FRPG

Chapter 1. More basic setting overview broad strokes, what a character from that region would need to know as the basics and a list of God's.

Chapter 2. Subclasses

Chapter 3. Backgrounds

Chapter 4. Feats

Chapter 5. New Spells

Chapter 6. New KINDS of Spells, kind of a mystery, could be apart of the above Chapter

Chapter 7. Factions

Chapter 8. Magic Items, could be in the other book instead.

Lots of room for a ton of subclass BTW, could end up the primary way of updating alot of subclasses with room for plenty if new ones. I mean both XGtE and TCoE have a ton of Subclasses, and neither were dedicated Player Focused, they had a bunch of Space for DM tool and one had 17 pages of names.

 

[cbwjm]

Given that it's just zooming in on four areas, I wouldn't get rid of your 3E book any time soon. It might be good, it might be bad, but it's definitely not a replacement.

Oh don't worry about that, the 3e book is one of the few 3e books that I've kept with me instead of leaving in storage. It isnt going anywhere!