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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 7989792" data-attributes="member: 3457">Considering it’s been 100+ years sure but I think it’s a good idea due to rising costs of OOP copies. I recently bought an FRCS again, no map. Paid about 30 for it but with the map intact it’s more and still attached map it goes much higher. This is a slightly beat up copy, corners are showing cardboard pushing through, marks on the cover. There are plot hooks in the book that have been long resolved. The art could use an update. Plus it’s a twenty year old book! There are cool spells and prestige classes in that could use a good update. Plus much of the info isn’t readily available on book store shelves anymore. Sure the SCAG gives a blurb about Thay but let’s ask a question... If all you have is the SCAG, the Sword Coast... does it really sell you on the Realms to have JUST a medieval Europe? Inclusion is important these days and really every setting for D&D 5e is a variation on medieval Europe so far as presentation goes but in the Realms, and even discounting the side settings like Al Qadim etc, in the core Realms you have a very broad range of cultures including Arabic, Sumerian, Asian, Egyptian, African plus the race regions such as Evermeet, the Dwarf kingdoms in the Great Rift, halflings in Luiren. I think that representation, contained in the core of the Realms since 1e, has been a core reason for its continuing best seller status since it launched. While the SCAG sells well as people love to chant, it doesn’t reflect that diversity except in the most shallow way By glossing over cultures and locations outside of the Sword Coast. As a Sword Coast book it’s great. As a Realms book? As most seem to have agreed since it came out its weak in that regard. Personally love mine and most of my campaigns have been in that region or the Dalelands since 3e. I ran a short one in Thay back in 2003 or so. But I really think that WOTC is missing out by not banking on the strength of the Realms and focusing on a single region. Other settings, Dragonlance for example, is very much a Wagnerian Germany with hints of Native American culture. A Mormon inspired fantasy adventure. Dark Sun is a niche as well. Ravenloft was always about Barovia. Birthright is very Germanic also. Mystara is the closest in scope to the Realms and fills a lot of the same holes in different ways. Greyhawk is very Lieberian sword & sorcery, Conan adventure and aside from Hepmonoland focused very on a European setting. Ebberon is Europe after the First World War. All are brilliant settings but limited in scope aside from Mystara.</blockquote>

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