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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 8090028" data-attributes="member: 14159">The 3e Realms book has been out of print for almost 20 years.&nbsp; For many people, a hardcopy text is preferable to a .pdf.&nbsp; Most of the used prices for the book on Amazon are pretty high (a couple of low, reasonable offers, but they're well below the typical market value).Presumably they also want Realms-specific &quot;crunch&quot; rules elements to replace the 3e elements in there.&nbsp; FR-specific backgrounds, subclasses, Cleric domains, feats, spells etc.As for metaplot, while I know a lot of Realms fans ignore the Spellplague and everything after it (rather like most Dragonlance fans I know ignore the Chaos War and everything after it, and how the Planescape fans I know ignore the Faction War and everything after it), I'm sure a lot of people would like to see how the big deux ex machina reset that undid a lot of the spellplague's sweeping changes actually were worked in.&nbsp; They've jumped the timeline ahead well over a century from the 3e FRCS now, and after 4e did things like wipe entire countries off the map and level entire cities, only for them to be back on the map now, asking how and when those things happened is a valid question for someone trying to keep up with metaplot.. . .and newer fans that only started with 5e may be discouraged by finding out that the best book for one of the most popular settings was published 19 years ago and hasn't been updated in 2 editions of D&amp;D.I'll still say that if you want to know the Realms and run a game in them, the 3e FRCS is the best book ever made for it, but I can see why a devoted 5e player would want a 5e version of it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 8090028, member: 14159"] The 3e Realms book has been out of print for almost 20 years. For many people, a hardcopy text is preferable to a .pdf. Most of the used prices for the book on Amazon are pretty high (a couple of low, reasonable offers, but they're well below the typical market value). Presumably they also want Realms-specific "crunch" rules elements to replace the 3e elements in there. FR-specific backgrounds, subclasses, Cleric domains, feats, spells etc. As for metaplot, while I know a lot of Realms fans ignore the Spellplague and everything after it (rather like most Dragonlance fans I know ignore the Chaos War and everything after it, and how the Planescape fans I know ignore the Faction War and everything after it), I'm sure a lot of people would like to see how the big deux ex machina reset that undid a lot of the spellplague's sweeping changes actually were worked in. They've jumped the timeline ahead well over a century from the 3e FRCS now, and after 4e did things like wipe entire countries off the map and level entire cities, only for them to be back on the map now, asking how and when those things happened is a valid question for someone trying to keep up with metaplot. . . .and newer fans that only started with 5e may be discouraged by finding out that the best book for one of the most popular settings was published 19 years ago and hasn't been updated in 2 editions of D&D. I'll still say that if you want to know the Realms and run a game in them, the 3e FRCS is the best book ever made for it, but I can see why a devoted 5e player would want a 5e version of it. [/QUOTE]

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