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

[Remathilis]

More excited about Forge of the Artificer (grumble grumble) but I'm going to get the PC book first and the DM book later

 

[Retreater]

I'm clearly not the target market...

1) have no plans to play 5e in the near future (2014 or 2024)
2) always a DM so I don't care about player content
3) not going to get DLC on DND Beyond
4) don't like Forgotten Realms
5) after the failure of my Eberron campaign, I'm hesitant to use any published setting anyway

 

[Zardnaar]

Neutral. Wait and see. Will buy regardless but want alt art covers. If its bad I'll mine it and revert to 1371 DR and the 3.0 one. Campaign will be wrapping up around October so may extent it and do FR or Eberron (or neither) based on player feedback.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

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.

I might get more use out of the FR books, but I plan to use the Starter not just to teach people to play (I already do a lot of that) but to teach people to DM.

The really cool thing: I am going to use it to teach my wife to DM!

 

[aco175]

I'm think I'm more in the meh choice at this point. I do not think my group used SCAG at all. Not sure we would use all the FR location listed out in the book. Maybe some in the other book with PC classes and spells, but likely not a lot.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Incidentally, while I understand that there are plenty of folks with wives who play TTRPGs, and wives who play without their husbands (or introduce them) and so on, in my particular case, I've been married for 23 years, and my wife only started to join us as a player in the past six months, after playing Baldur's Gate 3.

As a funny aside, she's not a video game player either, but she watched our son and I playing, and decided to give it a try, then decided to give D&D a try, and now she's firmly hooked. She'll never be great at video games (turn-based is a good fit, because she takes a long time to figure out how to do what video game players would consider 'simple' moves with a controller) but I think she'd have what it takes to be a decent DM, if she's given the chance (and isn't too intimidated to try).

I think the boardgame-style elements of the new Starter Set will be a perfect fit for her (she's always enjoyed playing board games, even when she wasn't in to other games).

Hey, maybe I should have posted this in one of the many threads on the Starter, instead of one on the FR books, but this thread got me thinking about it! I am ALSO looking forward to those books. She'll probably enjoy reading them - she knows very little about FR other than what she's experienced in play. And I expect they'll have a lot of art. She likes that.

 

[cbwjm]

I've gone from a little to not at all (and I might have been very interested when first announced, but I might have already been disappointed with the 5.5 updates by that point). I was interested in the lore to see where they're going with the setting but I've reached the point where I no longer care about anything 5.5 and I'll likely just stick to my 2e, 3e, and 4e FR lore (I love Airspur, need me some big floating rocks as a genasi city).

It's a shame, really, 5.5 seems to have been the cut-off to turn me into a new era DnD grognard.

 

[pukunui]

I've gone from a little to not at all (and I might have been very interested when first announced, but I might have already been disappointed with the 5.5 updates by that point). I was interested in the lore to see where they're going with the setting but I've reached the point where I no longer care about anything 5.5 and I'll likely just stick to my 2e, 3e, and 4e FR lore (I love Airspur, need me some big floating rocks as a genasi city).

It's a shame, really, 5.5 seems to have been the cut-off to turn me into a new era DnD grognard.

I know the feeling. I'm teetering on the edge. I'm not sure if these books in particular will push me in one direction or the other, though. It's more likely to be the now-delayed Eberron book that does that (since I am currently only running a campaign in that setting).

 

[Morrus]

Literally, if I have a little bit of free time to let my mind wander, I am thinking about these two books.

You are the anti-me!

 

[Maenalis]

You are the anti-me!

I've put them in my online basket at least 20 times now (and then taken them out again).
I would like them to be good, useful and full with new information about the post-spellplague era..., but I kinda doubt it, that they will be.