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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Parmandur" data-source="post: 7963455" data-attributes="member: 6780330">Those Settings are all the same Tier, but we know from other WotC statements elsewhere that the gap between the Forgotten Realms and the next most popular is large, even moreso since one of the main draws of the FR to WotC for product purposes is Homebrew compatibility. Publishing adventures in the FR allows them to provide content for their most popular Setting and for Homebrewers who hew close to standard High Fantasy tropes, just as the FR does.Following from that, I see three principle reasons that there isn't likely to be a new FR Setting book anytime soon, despite being far and away the most popular prefab Setting:1. SCAG continues to sell well after five years. Paradoxically, by being well received and evergreen, there isn't a strong motivation to do another for the FR.2. The FR is strictly in line with the standard genre assumptions of D&D, as outlined in detail early in the DMG. The other Setting books are genre booster packs, providing information for playing a different style of game than is assumed by the core books. Any additional FR book isn't going to provide that sort of difference to play style, as Ravnica or Eberron do.3. It would step on the toes of the Adventure book releases, which include significant yet focused Gazeeters to specific areas in the Forgotten Realms. Descent into Avernus has a very detailed take on the city of Baldurs Gate, enough that a DM can use it to set a whole campaign in and forget going to Hell even, but not too enough to make it difficult to file off the serial numbers and put in a Homebrew world.</blockquote>

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