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

[Henadic Theologian]

They're talking about the rollback of much bigger controversial changes, such as rearranging/removing large portions of the continent and the world, removing well-known (even beloved) cities/nations/regions, and adding much-derided new cities/nations/regions (although I imagine Tymanther at least will stay in some form). Compared to these, the changes in the PDK are like a mere candle vs the sun.

Tymanther suffered from being linked to the Spellplague for awhile, but I think the SCAG & The Brimstone Angels & Griffin Brotherhood Saga changed that and it really feels like it made a place for itself in FR. It wasn't the only major change to a location that survived the Sundering however. Dambrath stayed a Were creature tribal nation instead of going back to a Half Drow nation for example.

 

[Weiley31]

I want those alt covers badly. And I'm better make sure to pre-order em when I can cuz I have a hunch that once they are out, they could be a pain in the butt to get at market retail value value. Those scalpers will probably try to jack up the prices to ride on that BG3 high/popularity.

 

[Weiley31]

I want those alt covers badly. And I'm better make sure to pre-order em when I can cuz I have a hunch that once they are out, they could be a pain in the butt to get at market retail value value. Those scalpers will probably try to jack up the prices to ride on that BG3 high/popularity.

Case in point:

D&D - Forgotten Realms - Heroes of Faerun (Alt Art) - Mind Games

D47130000

www.m-g.com.au

 

[mamba]

Case in point:

D&D - Forgotten Realms - Heroes of Faerun (Alt Art) - Mind Games

D47130000

www.m-g.com.au

based on the website those are Australian $, not sure how much WotC books usually cost down under

 

[cbwjm]

If you don't like something in the books you can just, you know, change it. Because that's what Dungeon Masters do.

Sure, but this thread is about how excited are we about the new books. For those of us that aren't, why bother buying them just to change things.

 

[SlyFlourish]

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.

 

[Remathilis]

False. How many adventures could FR support?

Well, I could run 100s in a Shadowdark setting...so I'm going to assume 'more than you will run in your life'.

You once again ignore my point to answer your own strawman. GG. Not discussing it further.

 

[Scribe]

An evergreen setting for the Forgotten Realms, especially one with as many regions, cities, locations, wildly distant from each other, could support more adventure than one could play out in their lifetime.

Does that sound dead to anyone else?

 

[Parmandur]

I believe I heard it was James Wyatt as lead for these books, and no one has more experience and better experience at world building then James Wyatt at WotC. Both MtG and D&D side. He also has FR experience.

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

 

[DarkCrisis]

I only bring it up because, well I like to when talking about Faerun past.

4th ed ruined it. They can't really fix killing of 90% of the iconic characters.

And hearing Salvatore talking about how distraught Greenwood was over it all and them trying to convince WotC not to nuke the setting that they built up over the last decade plus, was just yeah sad.