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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 7963094" data-attributes="member: 5948">The FR has been written many times.  The Grey box, the 2e region guides and boxed sets, the 3e FRCS and regional books like Uttermost East,, the 4e setting book, and now the SCAG and the 5e mega-adventure books - hell, a lot of the regions covered in the SCAG have probably been covered something like 10 times - how many Waterdeep writeups have we had?  This isn't plagiarisation.  If WotC chose, and if they didn't want to advance the FR timeline again, they could even choose to retire the SCAG and copy-paste parts of its contents into a bigger book that covered more of the realms in similar detail to that which the SCAG covered the Sword Coast.  There's plenty of precedent in 5e for WotC re-using material in multiple books after all, as the class options in my SCAG remind me.  Or they could start releasing complimentary 'Old Empires Adventurer's Guide', 'Heartlands Campaign Guide' books etc, but there's just so much generic FR stuff in SCAG (the gods, calendar, language etc) - do you reprint all that stuff in every region book?</blockquote>