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

[Demetrios1453]

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

I see we have quite differing views on this. We'll just have to agree to disagree.

 

[Demetrios1453]

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.

The most noteworthy thing for me is that the monsters section here is very short; I assume the monster section in the new books will have a significantly larger page count.

 

[Amphytrion]

If it were up to me, I would take more gazeteer material over bestiary entries. Bestiaries are a dime a dozen, I'd rather not waste lots of space in our first FR setting guide in a decade with countless statblocks.

I am under the impression that I am in the minority in this opinion, which is why I expect lots of monsters.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

If it were up to me, I would take more gazeteer material over bestiary entries. Bestiaries are a dime a dozen, I'd rather not waste lots of space in our first FR setting guide in a decade with countless statblocks.

I am under the impression that I am in the minority in this opinion, which is why I expect lots of monsters.

I agree with you. If I need more monsters I can make my own.

 

[Garmel]

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

It'll probably be like in 3e where Shield dwarves are the default dwarf and the Gold Dwarf will have an alternate ability which probably replaces Tremorsense.

 

[Demetrios1453]

If it were up to me, I would take more gazeteer material over bestiary entries. Bestiaries are a dime a dozen, I'd rather not waste lots of space in our first FR setting guide in a decade with countless statblocks.

I am under the impression that I am in the minority in this opinion, which is why I expect lots of monsters.

Since there's 160 extra pages, there's plenty of room for a much expanded bestiary (and the 50 one-page adventures) without infringing on the page count for other things. The bestiaries for both Spelljammer and Planescape were 64 pages; I wouldn't be surprised to see the same here.

 

[Demetrios1453]

It'll probably be like in 3e where Shield dwarves are the default dwarf and the Gold Dwarf will have an alternate ability which probably replaces Tremorsense.

Duergar would be similar - you just remove some abilities substitute in enlarge and invisibility like the elf lineages do.

 

[GarrettKP]

Duergar would be similar - you just remove some abilities substitute in enlarge and invisibility like the elf lineages do.

Or… just use the Duergar in Monsters of the Multiverse. They already got an update, they don’t need a reprint here.

 

[Elodan]

Went from on the fence to definitely buying.

Was worried they were going to skimp on the rest of the continent in favor of just the 5 deep dive regions.

 

[pukunui]

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.

Remember that the 3e FRCS has a smaller font with more densely packed text than the 5e books have had.