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

[Corinnguard]

I think I am going to adopt a wait-and-see approach when it comes to these two books.

 

[the Jester]

The Realms just aren't my bag. I don't buy much campaign specific material unless it's for a setting I like, so I'm not the audience for these.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

The Realms just aren't my bag. I don't buy much campaign specific material unless it's for a setting I like, so I'm not the audience for these.

I find it amusing how backwards I am when compared to the "average" (if there is such a thing) long-time D&D player. I played D&D for 30 years rarely ever touching published lore or modules. I had my own world, my own gods, my own stories - my own "lore". I had read a couple of Dragonlance books sometime around '90, give-or-take, but I'd never played there. And I've never read a Drizzt Book or any other D&D fiction.

It wasn't until 5e that I really learned much about the Realms. It's not that I'm really any sort of "fan" of the place, but I now know it quite well, because I started running published adventures. I've run a good two-thirds of them by now. It's a decent enough fantasy world for the job.

I'd be happy to read these upcoming books - I'm looking forward to them. But I also admit that I have no stake in the game when it comes to Realmslore. IF it's good, I'll like it. I really, really don't care if it's "correct" (in whatever way a "true fan" might imagine that to be).

 

[Nord Ronnoc]

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

Oof, yeah. The delay sucks but it's understandable.

Anyway, I'm interested in getting it, but the Ultimate Bundle's price is a bit high. I understand because there's a lot of stuff in the bundle. It's just... I'll pre-order it later.

 

[Charlaquin]

Feels like quite a gap between “a little” and “very.” I’d probably describe my level of excitement as, like, average to slightly above average.

 

[Stormonu]

I like the Forgotten Realms, but I stick with the Gray Box (and 1E/2E region sourcebooks). Won't be picking up the new books, no interest.

 

[Nikosandros]

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!

And that's actually awesome. But it's not very likely that I will be teaching anyone to play or DM in the near future. So my personal use of the starter set will be limited. Which was my point

 

[sevenbastard]

Character options are intriguing but I dont care about the Realms at all. So a hard pass.

I hope it makes Realms fans happy, but not sure how it is possible to please all of them anymore.

 

[humble minion]

I’m interested, at this point, but I’ll wait and see. I’m a big ol’ FR lore tragic from way back, and one of the options I’m mulling for the next campaign I run is FR in the Shaar/Great Rift/Estagund/Mulhorand region, so I’m interested in the DM book, especially if the atlas turns out broadly useful.

The players book … probably less so. I can’t see a compelling reason to move to 5.5e from the 2014 books at this stage, so the player-facing material would likely be less useful even if it wasn’t likely to be version updates of stuff I already have. So I’d need a bit more convincing for that one.

 

[TheSword]

I’m very excited about the Dale Lands which has always felt like the most English part of there have been some great products like the Campaign Setting Box and products like Ruins of Myth Drannor, Doom of Daggerdale, The Randal Morn Trilogy and Shadowdale: Scouring of the Land. Very excited to see what they do with it in 2025.

I have a proto-campaign in the back of my mind that combines all of these into a sandbox around the zhent occupation of Daggerdale and later Shadowdale. Including Forge of Fury as Tethyamar, and a few other tasty little modules.