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<blockquote data-quote="TheSleepyKing" data-source="post: 6485101" data-attributes="member: 63491"><p>Back in November (October?) Mike Mearls at WoTC specifically said they <em>weren't</em>, at the time, working on an FR campaign setting for 5E, and that they intended to figure out how they're going to approach the setting in the new year. As it stands, there is no announcement of a 5E FR campaign setting book and if there is going to be one at all it won't be coming for a very long time. The one hope that we do have is that we know, via posts at Candlekeep, that Ed Greenwood (the original creator of the realms) has been working on FR materials for <em>something</em>.</p><p></p><p>To go back to the original question -- I agree with the other posters here that recommended the 3.0 FRCS as the best version of the realms, and there's plenty of other great 3E material to along with it, including a number of excellent regional sourcebooks and history guides. I love Silver Marches and The Shining South personally.</p><p></p><p>4E introduced absolutely massive changes to world, however. Entire countries were nuked, continents disappeared, lots of people (and gods) died in the 100-year time jump. So the 3E version isn't great if you want as close to the current canonical picture of the world as possible. Allegedly in 5E, they're reverting many of those changes, since 4E did not go down at all well with FR fans.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheSleepyKing, post: 6485101, member: 63491"] Back in November (October?) Mike Mearls at WoTC specifically said they [I]weren't[/I], at the time, working on an FR campaign setting for 5E, and that they intended to figure out how they're going to approach the setting in the new year. As it stands, there is no announcement of a 5E FR campaign setting book and if there is going to be one at all it won't be coming for a very long time. The one hope that we do have is that we know, via posts at Candlekeep, that Ed Greenwood (the original creator of the realms) has been working on FR materials for [I]something[/I]. To go back to the original question -- I agree with the other posters here that recommended the 3.0 FRCS as the best version of the realms, and there's plenty of other great 3E material to along with it, including a number of excellent regional sourcebooks and history guides. I love Silver Marches and The Shining South personally. 4E introduced absolutely massive changes to world, however. Entire countries were nuked, continents disappeared, lots of people (and gods) died in the 100-year time jump. So the 3E version isn't great if you want as close to the current canonical picture of the world as possible. Allegedly in 5E, they're reverting many of those changes, since 4E did not go down at all well with FR fans. [/QUOTE]
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