What is the status of Cormyr in 5e?
Demetrios1453
Hero
Honestly, if they just were to do something like "SCAG II: The Rest of the Realms", that would be just fine. A nice overview with unreliable narrators to give us what the rest of the setting looks like in broad strokes. There isn't any need for down-to-the-city-block-level of detail (although I wouldn't object if they were to do that!), but just enough so we have general overall detail while allowing for DM creativity...SCAG also has a few lines on Cormyr.
But AFAIK, the Realms are today what they were in 3E.
Almost all changes from 4e were reversed (thank god), and when things couldn't just be reversed/retconned, they were placed in a way that seemed like "things going back to what they were"...
Anyway, I'd also like a bit more info than what we've seen in SCAG (yet to read SKT). But until then, just grab old stuff and go with it
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Completely agree with you, Sir.
I do kind-of-miss the excessive detail of 3E FRCS, but the overview given in SCAG is great entry-point for interesting locations and NPCs without being overwhelming (like FRCS was, frankly... even the font size was smaller than other 3E books for god's sake).
"SCAG 2: A Guide to Everywhere not SwordCoast" would've been great... and could be a nice source of backgrounds and archetypes for eastern culutres (Rashamen, Thay, Halruaa, Calimshan and other stuff).
They could even review the shi**y Genasi from Princes *sigh*
But I digress...
doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
Whereas I run it as mostly 4e with some adjustment as time has moved on and my PCs have impacted the world. And gods came back and some other stuff, and I do use bits of the current canon here and there.
Which is fine, but I'd be more inclined to care about the setting at all anymore if there was a full updated canon.
As it is, I haven't even bought SCAG, because I see no reason to actually invest in the setting at this point.
MiraMels
Explorer
The problem with this approach is that 4th edition covered about a hundred years or so, and the event that reverted everything back for 5th edition happened about maybe five to ten years prior to when the 5th edition AL modules and hardback campaigns are currently set. So, from the perspective of folk living in the Realms, the only people who can remember, first hand, what things were like in 3rd edition are, minimum, 150 years old or so.
I run a lot of current published material, and i wish i had more guidance from Wizards for what the transition was like, and how to portray folk who lived through it.
CAFRedblade
Explorer
You can always look over the forums at Candlekeep.com or there is an FR wiki online I reference for some things. But other than the SCAG book, and the DND Next adventure modules detailing the Sundering, not much new in FR. Like others have mentioned, kinda back to a status quo pre 4th, but with a different (mostly) cast of actors.
Sorcerers Apprentice
Hero
So a typical power fantasy character aimed at teenage readers?
Not quite, and I might have simplified too much. E.g. by "unmarried" I meant "widowed" and by "might not even care if the kids are bastards" I meant "might not even want children but will make sure to get them to secure the line of succession".
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MiraMels
Explorer
i mean, yes. But your tone seems to suggest disapproval or dismissal. I'm not sure why that's a bad thing?
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