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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8347643" data-attributes="member: 7006">Heh heh... we're actually agreeing.  When I said it couldn't be done, I was meaning that under the current 5E publishing paradigm it can't be done. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />WotC could publish whatever they wanted... they could make an updated current-to-the-time 1000 page Grand History of the Realms book if they wanted to... but we all know they have no intention or desire to do that.  By the same token they could publish a 3E-style Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting book, with the same page count, same really tiny print, everything in the book updated for 5E (both in mechanics and in new nation history)... but what exactly would people be gaining?  A whole heap of nations whose background and history paragraphs get re-written with "what has happened in the last 100+ years"... all of which will be summarily ignored by 99% of the playerbase who buys the book because almost no one is going to run campaigns in Estagund, Thesk, or Lapaliiya.  So what exactly is the point in paying writers to invent "new history" for those paragraphs in the book?  If you never used the 2E, 3E, or 4E histories of 95% of the Realms... the only reason you'd need it updated was for a historical textbook and something to read.Now yes, we know that a very small percentage of the playerbase are exactly the audience for that type of book.  But the 5E designers have said from the beginning they are no longer writing books specifically to cater to just that part of the playerbase-- books that aren't actually going to be used for the game itself.  They want every book to be useful and used by somebody (DM or player) in actual gameplay and not just historical text.  And thus the 3E FRCS style of book is not under that paradigm and ain't gonna be made.  Despite some people here on the boards who still insist it should be done.</blockquote>

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