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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheSleepyKing" data-source="post: 6357325" data-attributes="member: 63491">I’m actually cautiously optimistic about 5E Forgotten Realms... mostly thanks to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLf1hBUr9M4" target="_blank">this interview</a> with RA Salvatore where he talks about WoTC’s realisation that they’d made a horrible mess of FR with 4E and were working to rectify it. It looks like the Sundering is going for a soft reboot. Everything that happened, happened, but the Realms is being reverted to something like its 1E/2E/3E state. It’s a bit cheesy (the first three and final novels of the series are basically “here’s how we teleport our favourite novel characters into the current timeline”), but I think the idea is right. My big concern is that they make the same mistakes they made with 3E. Although 3E was my favourite FR edition, it certainly had problems – namely that the good guys had the bad guys outnumbered and outgunned by a considerable margin (largely thanks to the far-too-many almighty Chosen of Mystra). The setting’s villains had been humiliated so many times that they’d lost all credibility as threats. The only ones that retained their aura of supervillainy were the Shades (and now they’ve been silly-slapped by Elminster as well). 4E was the worst kind of response to that problem – they just nuked the entire setting, and it still makes me mad in a they-cancelled-Firefly way. Most “non-western” realms were destroyed, and they did things like introducing Dragonborn by literally dropping a nation of Dragonborn from the sky. I think they’ve realised that that was an unpopular direction – and are walking it back as best they can.</blockquote>

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