D&D 5E (2024) How excited are you for the 2 upcoming Forgotten Realms books?

[Maenalis]

Literally, if I have a little bit of free time to let my mind wander, I am thinking about these two books.
I watched the Todd Kenreck interview on youtube (several times), read the summary on dndfan, read the forum topic here...
I'm still constantly thinking about: which parts of Toril they have left out that I would have liked to read more about, what old prestige classes I would like to return, how much I hate the Spellplague, what the current lore might be about the weave... etc.

And then I remember how much I dislike the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide book and start to think about something else and more fun (like paying taxes and dental root canals and the like).

I will wait with my purchase until @MerricB writes a review and @SlyFlourish makes a video about them. But I have the feeling they are either going to be (or are) as "bad/useless" (in my humble opinion) as the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide book, or they are going to be my most used books off all time.

So: How excited are you for the 2 upcoming Forgotten Realms books?

 

[Parmandur]

Quite excited, really. First, I quite liked SCAG and have found it useful for the past decade, it was really my introduction to the Forgotten Realms. Second, thr main designer for this book was also the lead on The Book of Many Things, which was excellent. Everything they have previewed ao far has been pretty great, really looking forward to having the books in hand

 

[TravDoc42]

Very excited! I can't wait to find out more about what's included!!

The first campaign I played in was a homebrew campaign set on Faerûn, DMed by my mentor (sadly no longer with us). As such, it's been a setting that's very close to me!!

I hope it's as awesome as it deserves to be!! There's so much quality creative soil for a great set of books to grow out of!!

(And I hope some of Faerûn more monstrous inhabitants get brought forward in it!)

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I'm pretty excited, though not as excited as I am for the new Starter Set.

I'm really hoping to see a new (and potentially good) direction forming here.

Time will tell.

 

[Azzy]

The Forgotten Realms isn't exactly my favorite setting, but I am curious and I hope the books are good.

 

[Ebony Dragon]

I'm excited for new subclasses and character options (feats, spells, magic items).

I love the forgotten realms as a setting. It's what I grew up playing with for my first D&D campaigns, and spent over a decade reading novels from the forgotten realms and loving them - but that was all in the 90's and early 00's. Unfortunately nothing WotC has done with FR since 4th Edition has interested me at all - my excitement about the setting books at this point is extremely low. The quality of the Sword Coast Adventures Guide doesn't help, though it is a mostly new team at D&D now compared to then so there may be a small bit of hope that new voices are able to turn things around with the setting.

 

[Demetrios1453]

I can't answer, as there isn't an option above "Very". In fact, you'd probably have to have at least two options above "Very" for me to give a truthful answer.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

Only interested because of character options.

I'm sure the books will be fine, and I like setting books in principle, but when I'm prepping for Forgotten Realms D&D I always end up just using the Forgotten Realms wiki and my own imagination, and I already have several books of Forgotten Realms source material. The price point is too high for more shelf decor.

 

[Nikosandros]

I'm pretty excited, though not as excited as I am for the new Starter Set.

I'm really hoping to see a new (and potentially good) direction forming here.

Time will tell.

Undoubtedly, the new Starter Set has the potential to bring real innovation, so it's an exciting product. OTOH, I'll personally get far more use from the FR books.

 

[Shiroiken]

Not a huge fan of the Realms and I've not liked the direction they've taken the setting since 4E. I might get some use out of it for my Greyhawk setting, but I doubt I'll use any of the lore they have.