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

[pukunui]

I would love more books on the Greyhawk setting, we haven't seen much lore on it, except on the new DM guide. The Forgotten Realms are already well-explored in my opinion.

Don't hold your breath! Chris Perkins said, when the new DMG first came out, that WotC wasn't planning to revisit Greyhawk any time soon. He deliberately designed the version that's in the new DMG as a standalone thing for DMs to make their own. Now, of course, CP has left WotC, so that may change ... but I expect we'll still see a lot more FR stuff before we see any more Greyhawk stuff.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I would love more books on the Greyhawk setting, we haven't seen much lore on it, except on the new DM guide. The Forgotten Realms are already well-explored in my opinion.

FRs past is well explored, not it's present.

Greyhawk has not been a living setting in a long time. There was a reason Perkins snuck GH into the DMG, it would never get a setting book otherwise.

 

[Remathilis]

Don't hold your breath! Chris Perkins said, when the new DMG first came out, that WotC wasn't planning to revisit Greyhawk any time soon. He deliberately designed the version that's in the new DMG as a standalone thing for DMs to make their own. Now, of course, CP has left WotC, so that may change ... but I expect we'll still see a lot more FR stuff before we see any more Greyhawk stuff.

I kinda appreciate that design goal. Greyhawk is a light touch setting that incentivizes DMs to make it their own and only is used to give DMs proper nouns to use. The Realms is the lore heavy, detail rich setting.

 

[Bae'zel]

My players are actively planning their new characters for an upcoming campaign switch to Faerun once these books come out.

We're hoping to dive into the Bastion rules as an ongoing feature. I tried them out with some younger players and it was pretty fun, they liked to draw things out in grid paper.

All of them are hard core Baldur's Gate 3 fans, so we're probably going to tap into what's familiar to them (probably set up the campaign in the titular city, hopefully the new book has some juicy details).

At worst, if the new books disappoint, I can purchase some AD&D 2e gazeteers or books about the city, I'm sure some are out there.

 

[Desdichado]

I've got, I believe although I need to check, the entire 3e run of FR products. I'm not even all that excited about that, but certainly I have all of the FR material that I ever need right there. Even if I were to play a 5.5 version of 5e, I wouldn't need a 5.5 book on it. Setting stuff is mostly non-mechanical. Frankly, little that they've done with the setting since then is better than what they did at that point, and even then, there were plenty of people who said that the 3e material was downhill from the gray box.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I am interested into sourcebooks with new classes and PC species but my known comic store is closed because the owner is retired, and I don't know if this could be reopened in the future. I am lucky if I could buy the translation of the 2024 corebooks. Now I am working in other zone.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Don't hold your breath! Chris Perkins said, when the new DMG first came out, that WotC wasn't planning to revisit Greyhawk any time soon. He deliberately designed the version that's in the new DMG as a standalone thing for DMs to make their own. Now, of course, CP has left WotC, so that may change ... but I expect we'll still see a lot more FR stuff before we see any more Greyhawk stuff.

An exception might be adventures in Greyhawk maybe, like updated old school Greyhawk adventures if there are any left worth updating.

 

[pukunui]

An exception might be adventures in Greyhawk maybe, like updated old school Greyhawk adventures if there are any left worth updating.

Yeah, I mean, we've already got that in Ghosts of Saltmarsh, so they could ostensibly do another one.

 

[CM]

Wish they would preview the spells.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Yeah, I mean, we've already got that in Ghosts of Saltmarsh, so they could ostensibly do another one.

Ghosts of Saltmarsh functions just as well in the Forgotten Realms. Any collection of generic fantasy adventures works as well in any generic fantasy setting. The more recent adventures have mostly been setting-agnostic, I expect that to continue.