D&D 5E (2024) Next issue of Game Informer will have details on the two upcoming Forgotten Realms books

[Demetrios1453]

Wel, no, this means that they have 5 easy prep Adventures for 10 different selected regions. The general Hazateer seems to be the 50 pages in the players guide.

With 480 pages to fill between the books, I really don't think that's going to be the case. That's 160 more pages than the 3e FRCS, which also had adventure ideas, prestige classes, and a large number full-page 3e stat blocks for NPCs. And it still found room for a full 134-page geography section.

Granted, this was similar to what we're looking at here - some areas just give a page or two of description, while others, like the Dalelands, were given much deeper coverage. I would expect something similar, with the "10 regions" getting around a couple of pages each, while the 5 deep dive areas making up the bulk.

 

[SkidAce]

It mentioned new named spells, like:

“The tongue-twister of a spell called Simbul’s Synostodweomer is a high-level spell that can be laid upon another, and which heals them every time they cast their own spell.”...

I guess they mean new to 5th edition.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Also, let's theorize about the 10 regions! I think:

1. The North
2. Anauroch/Cold Lands
3. Western Heartlands
4. Eastern Heartlands
5. Unapproachable East
6. Lands of Intrigue
7. Vilhon Reach/Lake of Steam
8. Old Empires
9. Chultan Penisula
10. Shining South.

Maybe a paragraph or two concerning regions outside of Faerûn proper, mainly just names and where they are in relation. If they even mention them at all.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

With 480 pages to fill between the books, I really don't think that's going to be the case. That's 160 more pages than the 3e FRCS, which also had adventure ideas, prestige classes, and a large number full-page 3e stat blocks for NPCs. And it still found room for a full 134-page geography section.

Do you remember the page layout of the 3e FRG?
I guess the 480 pages won't cover a lot more more than the old 320 pages.
We get more pictures and more whitespace for better readability.

I really like the 1page adventures. In onednd days I was really fond of the low level free AL adventures. And I was a fan of the d100 adventure ideas table of 3e.

Those adventures will fit for my d&d club. Everything else is too long anyway.

Granted, this was similar to what we're looking at here - some areas just give a page or two of description, while others, like the Dalelands, were given much deeper coverage. I would expect something similar, with the "10 regions" getting around a couple of pages each, while the 5 deep dive areas making up the bulk.

 

[Parmandur]

Assuming they are doing origin feats for all the backgrounds and not reusing any from the core. Which I would not assume.

I would expect new ones, and they said there will be new ones. 11 or more Origin Feats would not be absurd, and indeed the FRCS from 3E had a lot of Level 1 Fewts that could fit thematically.

 

[Parmandur]

The 50 pages in the Heroes guide is on general Fearun stuff players need to know. The gods, factions, equipment, and such. It won’t be full Gazetteer of areas or regions.

The 50+ adventures in the Adventures guide are one-pagers like the DMG. They take up 50ish pages of the 240, so plenty of space for monsters, magic items, and the 5-mini settings to be fully detailed.

Yeah, the Advenfures described here seem to match up with the five from the Advebfures chapter in the DMG, which are all linked to the detailed Greyhawk City and region in the Campaigns chapter.

 

[Parmandur]

Ok, so the full gazateer is on the DM book, covering even regions outside the five deep-dive areas we already know about. Cool!

Well,no, that says that there are 50 pages of Advebtures in the DMG tied to the 10 regions, not that there is that basic gazateer in the DM book. They said in previews earlier this year that the general overview is in the player book, the DM book has the deep dives and apparently adventures.

 

[Parmandur]

With 480 pages to fill between the books, I really don't think that's going to be the case. That's 160 more pages than the 3e FRCS, which also had adventure ideas, prestige classes, and a large number full-page 3e stat blocks for NPCs. And it still found room for a full 134-page geography section.

Granted, this was similar to what we're looking at here - some areas just give a page or two of description, while others, like the Dalelands, were given much deeper coverage. I would expect something similar, with the "10 regions" getting around a couple of pages each, while the 5 deep dive areas making up the bulk.

I wouldn't seperate the 5 deep dive areas from the 10 regions, per se.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

What's with adding Jaraxle in the art?

They forgot to put him in BG3.

 

[Nathaniel Lee]

They do say they flesh out the roles of the PHB species in the Realms, such as gold and shield dwarves, tho

That would be awesome. I'm not a big fan of how dwarves, halflings, etc. got "downsized" into a singular entity while we still got the various elf subspecies. It's even weirder when drow are clearly called out as a bespoke player option while duergar are, I guess, just cookie cutter dwarves?