D&D (2024) Should Forgotten Realms remain the default setting?

[Corinnguard]

If OneD&D is going to focus on The D&D Multiverse, maybe the OneD&D PHB will have the City of Doors in it. It's at the center of everything and is the #1 place to start and create adventuring parties whose members are from all across the Multiverse.

 

[Gorck]

I answered "Keep FR" not because I want them to keep it, so much as I think they will keep it in 1DD, since I feel it's equivalent to 5.5e rather then 6e. However, the question was vague as to whether or not the OP meant 1DD or a future edition.

Although I wouldn't mind seeing Exandria (or one of its continents) become the default setting in the future. In my campaign, I've switched from FR to Wildemount because I find FR to be too massive and overwhelming. Wildemount has a smaller and cozier ambiance that I prefer. Plus, after watching Critical Role's 2nd campaign, I feel I'm more familiarized with the continent than I could ever be with FR, despite reading all the Drizzt books.

 

[R_J_K75]

The other take it's a horrible mean-spirited place that tromps down hard on adventurers by forcing them to register a charter (which in 2E cost like, 1000g or something, I dunno about later editions) and literally beating up and throwing in jail anyone who seems like they might be an adventurer but doesn't have such a charter.

It's not so much "royal recognition" (that's a helluva spin lol) as "pay up and do what we say so we can track your movements and actions or rot in jail".

Don't forget to triple knot your peace strings too.

Cormyr is not wild or dangerous, note

Well there is the Stonelands and its roving bands of humanoids and random areas of wild and dead magic.

 

[R_J_K75]

I voted for with something else, but I don’t think FR is the default setting now. There is no setting in the core books, so there is no default IMO and that is how I prefer it

IIRC and I could be misremembering but isnt there quite a bit of lip service to FR in the 5E core books that would imply that its the default setting for 5E?

 

[Defender_X]

Mystara would be a cool default. Always felt that TSR and WOTC misssed out on not doing more with it.

 

[TheSword]

Well as none of the 50% that wants an alternative can agree on what that alternative should be, I guess we’ll be sticking with the Realms.

 

[Haplo781]

Well as none of the 50% that wants an alternative can agree on what that alternative should be, I guess we’ll be sticking with the Realms.

Because this is totally an official poll by Wizards.

 

[ersatzphil]

If OneD&D is going to focus on The D&D Multiverse, maybe the OneD&D PHB will have the City of Doors in it. It's at the center of everything and is the #1 place to start and create adventuring parties whose members are from all across the Multiverse.

I mean, it's all of three paragraphs, but it is in fairness brought up in the current DMG.

Personally, I'm on the side of "keep the core three books as setting-neutral / 'generic fantasyland' as possible".

 

[the Jester]

Forgotten Realms will have been the default setting for a full decade when 1DD releases. Sould WotC stick with it or give a different setting a turn?

It's not the default, the multiverse is. Yes, FR gets the most focus, and I wish it didn't, but "default setting" it explicitly isn't.

 

[MNblockhead]

I voted "Keep FR" but only because I'm fine with things as they are. FR is generic enough that I can ignore it and reflavor most adventures to fit into a home brew. I can play a "FR" adventure and really not have to worry about the wider corpus of lore and geography. I love Eberron, but I feel that I need to spend more time reading about the setting and to have a more fleshed out setting book. Nothing set in Eberron would feel like a pick-up-and-play adventure like those set in the FR. At least for me.

FR is a setting where you can go into as shallow or as deep as you want in a way few other settings are. I suppose Greyhawk and Mystara are similar in this way, but then why bother swapping FR out for one of them?

For me, most setting books are lonely fun. I enjoyed reading threw Ravnica, but never tried to run a game there. Same with Eberron. Given me adventures I can run without having to cross-reference and study a setting guide.