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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 7499457" data-attributes="member: 6677017">The Forgotten Realms is not the default setting of 5e. It is the default published adventure setting (with some exceptions), and the default Adventurer's League setting. The default 5e D&D setting, as stated by the designers and the core rulebooks, is the multiverse. For those of us who don't purchase many published adventures or play Adventurer's League (which by my guess includes the majority of D&D players) the idea of FR being the default setting makes no sense. It also misinforms new players.The core books (PHB, DMG, and MM) neither state nor suggest that the Forgotten Realms is the default setting. Instead, they mention a variety of settings in their descriptions and examples, and speak of the "Many Worlds of D&D" and the multiverse that contains them.Of the non-adventure supplements, only the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide focuses on the Forgotten Realms, which is explicitly intended, since the Sword Coast is a known Forgotten Realms locale.The other non-adventure 5e products: Volo's Guide to Monsters, Xanathar's Guide to Everything, and Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, follow the lead of the core books in focusing on the multiverse, with some examples from individual settings (not just the Forgotten Realms), rather than defaulting to any world as a setting.Even Tales from the Yawning Portal, which is an adventure book with several smaller adventures rather than a single mega-adventure, has adventures from a variety of locations. One might argue that it is primarily a Greyhawk adventure book, since 6 of its 7 adventures were originally set in Greyhawk (the remaining 1 was set in the Forgotten Realms). Like some of the Forgotten Realms adventure books, Tales from the Yawning Portal provides suggestions for setting the adventures in other settings. Curse of Strahd is explicitly a Ravenloft adventure book.As long as people keep making the factually incorrect claim that the Forgotten Realms is the default 5e setting, I'm going to keep correcting it.</blockquote>

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