Wasn't each campaign setting supposed to get three books?

blalien

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I vaguely remember a WotC staff member say in an interview some time ago that each campaign setting would get three books. It appears that Forgotten Realms and Eberron are each getting only two books: the campaign guide and the player's guide. Am I just hallucinating, or did Wizards change their plans, or is there a third book coming?

And this does mean that, until WotC changes their plans, there will never be another Forgotten Realms source book?
 

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The 3rd FR book is The Scepter Tower of Spellgard. Although, I'm not sure if they specified that the 3rd book would be a sourcebook of some kind....
 

There's also an adventure for each setting. In FR's case, it's FR1: Scepter Tower of Spellgard. I don't think the Eberron adventure has been announced yet.

And they haven't totally ruled out the possibility of making more books for the settings, but that depends on demand. In either case, we likely won't be seeing things like each setting having its own book of monsters, gods, magic, organizations, and so on. So a FR book about the Heartlands in a few years is a possibility. Magic of Faerûn 4e? Probably not.
 

The plan from WotC has always been three products per setting: Campaign Guide, Player's Guide, adventure, with more if the initial books sold well. I've never heard them say the third book would or even might be anything other than a big adventure.
 

Ah, forgot about the adventure. That clears things up, thanks.

I would be very disappointed if Wizards didn't print any more FR adventures. Fingers crossed!
 

The plan from WotC has always been three products per setting: Campaign Guide, Player's Guide, adventure, with more if the initial books sold well. I've never heard them say the third book would or even might be anything other than a big adventure.
I thought they'd explicitly stated that the third book would typically be an adventure.

I would be very disappointed if Wizards didn't print any more FR adventures. Fingers crossed!
FR sells well enough. I would definitely expect more. My preference, though, would be to do like they did with KotS and release generic adventures with setting-specific conversions in Dungeon.
 

I thought they'd explicitly stated that the third book would typically be an adventure.

They have. I'm saying I don't remember a time when the "each campaign setting will have three books" statement ever left undefined what the third book might be--in other words, as far as I recall, from the very first time they announced that plan it's been "CG, PG, adventure."
 

There's also an adventure for each setting. In FR's case, it's FR1: Scepter Tower of Spellgard. I don't think the Eberron adventure has been announced yet.
Secrets of the Ashen Crown, July 2009 (Same month as the Eberron Player's Guide.)

IIRC, they announced this a GenCon '08.
 

Flipping through the two FR books, it seems to me that they left it VERY open to publish a new Faiths and Pantheons type book, detailing the Lesser Gods and Exarchs. The sample entries in FRCG led me to think that more were created but not included.

Although, they could easily do it in a series of Dragon articles just as well...
 


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