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

[Elodan]

I said a little as it really depends on how much info the other regions outside the main 5 get. I’m look for a guide to the Forgotten Realms, not a few places in it. I already have 3 of the 5 that are definitely included. The alt covers are a plus.

 

[CleverNickName]

I voted for the "Meh" option. It's nothing against Forgotten Realms itself, I'm just not very interested in any published campaign settings. I've used the same homebrew campaign setting for almost a decade and I'm not really looking to change it.

That said: I'm always looking for inspiration, and WotC makes a good product, so I might pick it up and page through it. But it's not on my Must Have list.

I just learned that this product contains 50-something mini-adventures so I've upgraded my excitement one category, from "Meh" to "a little." That's a nice little cluster of cherries to pick.

 

[pukunui]

I changed my vote to "meh". I think I will still buy them, and I love the alt covers for them, but I'm not really feeling excited about the contents. I'm currently only a DM, so the player-facing content doesn't excite me, and I'm only running one campaign at the moment, and it is set in Eberron, so these books won't be all that useful to me in the short term.

That being said, I have been fond of the Forgotten Realms ever since I first got into D&D in the 90s, so I'm curious to see what these two books will contain. However, I have mixed feelings about the stylistic changes (as well as the mechanical ones) that WotC has been making to D&D with revised 5e, so I'm not sure how much I will like the books' contents.

I think I am looking forward to the Eberron book more, but I'm also nervous about its contents. I don't like a lot of the art that's been released for that book so far, which makes me nervous about the rest of its contents.

 

[Parmandur]

I just learned that this product contains 50-something mini-adventures so I've upgraded my excitement one category, from "Meh" to "a little." That's a nice little cluster of cherries to pick.

Yup, there is a fully detailed Level 1-3 Adventure meant to be customizable for any if the focused on mini-Settings (which realistically means can probably ve used anywhere), and 51 one-page low-prep requirement Adventures with maps, in the style of the new DMG sample Adventures. Also, 39 Monsters and a bunch of location information that's probably easy enough to file off the serial numbers, so a lot if general DM material to work with.

 

[schneeland]

I think, I'm in the "Meh" bucket. Had these books come out 7 or 8 years ago, they would have been an almost certain purchase. But 5e in general and 5.5e in particular don't really resonate with me these days, so I'll pass at least initially.
I have some nostalgic attachment to the 2e/3e realms, though, so depending on what I hear from people around me, I might eventually have a look.

 

[Cynicide]

I said Meh for a couple of reasons.

When the edition change happened I decided to finish my last campaign and move on to shorter campaigns in a larger variety of systems. I'm keen to get out from under D&D and play something else.

The new books having digital DLC turns me off buying as I'll never be a D&D Beyond user and the idea of platformed locked content is abhorrent to me.

The books have to measure up to the 3E Forgotten Realms campaign setting and so far nothing has.

I'll get them eventually but maybe not on release.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Nope, the lead for these is Jason Tondro (lead on Many Things, edited the OD&D collectio ), Wyatt was working on the DMG.

I thought it was Jason Tondro as well based on the first video that mentioned these books when they went by different names, but remember hearing somewhere that James Wyatt was the lead. I'll see if I can find my source tomorrow. I think the lead on the DMG was Chris Perkins, although I have no doubt Wyatt contributed.

 

[Parmandur]

I thought it was Jason Tondro as well based on the first video that mentioned these books when they went by different names, but remember hearing somewhere that James Wyatt was the lead. I'll see if I can find my source tomorrow. I think the lead on the DMG was Chris Perkins, although I have no doubt Wyatt contributed.

James Wyatt was co-leading the DMG, that's why all the preview videos were Wyatt and Perkins together. But this book is definitely Tondro. Wyatt may be working on Lorwyn.

 

[John Lloyd1]

I voted "a little". I'm interested but apprehensive. I'm sad that two of the five settings have been done to death at this point (Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale). That's a pure example of the marketing taking priority over new material -- I literally have two sources for each of those published in the past ten years but nothing on Thay for like 30 years. Moonshae's has also been done by excellent designers for Baldman Games and is available on the DM's Guild so I don't feel like that needs to be covered either. So that leaves two of five locations that are really new to me.

As far as the book itself goes, I want a sourcebook packed with cool locations and adventure hooks I can use to build my own adventures and my own campaign. Eberron Rising from the Last War and Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica are both my reference level sourcebooks from WOTC so we'll see how these compare. I'm less interested in the player guide -- crunchy stuff just doesn't interest me as much. Same with monsters, frankly. I have thousands of monsters already and I end up building my own on the fly half the time anyway. I want lore. Tons and tons of lore. Table-usable lore. I'm hoping the 50(!) mini adventures they pack into this book act as table-usable lore. We'll see.

I'm waiting for your 'shapshot' when they get released. I don't have the previous Forgotten Realms gazetteers (unless they came on Dndbeyond for free like Baldur's Gate and that is not a platform for reading). So, the DM book seems sort of interesting.

But, I am currently running one-shots at the FLGS, so the '100 one-hot wonders' book is going to be more useful.

 

[Parmandur]

I'm waiting for your 'shapshot' when they get released. I don't have the previous Forgotten Realms gazetteers (unless they came on Dndbeyond for free like Baldur's Gate and that is not a platform for reading). So, the DM book seems sort of interesting.

But, I am currently running one-shots at the FLGS, so the '100 one-hot wonders' book is going to be more useful.

The DM book is the one with the Adventures and the Gazateers.