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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 7655512" data-attributes="member: 3586">It's probably really worth listening to the two Forgotten Realms panels at the most recent Gen Con.<a href="http://www.thetomeshow.com/e/forgotten-realms-panel-1-gencon-2014/" target="_blank">http://www.thetomeshow.com/e/forgotten-realms-panel-1-gencon-2014/</a><a href="http://www.thetomeshow.com/e/forgotten-realms-panel-2-gencon-2014/" target="_blank">http://www.thetomeshow.com/e/forgotten-realms-panel-2-gencon-2014/</a>One of the big things they wanted to do was put more mystery back into the Forgotten Realms. Rather than have everything cut and dry, they would like there to be areas that are much more up to individual DMs to decide "oh, that's what actually is happening there". There will be a 5E Forgotten Realms book, but they're not going to rush into it. 5E under Mike Mearls is very much taking a slower approach to things - being a lot more careful of user feedback and the like. So, you'll probably find them really looking at how the first couple of Realms events are received before they publish the book.The Sundering is fascinating, because although we were led to believe it was about Abeir and Toril becoming separated, it was far more about the gods becoming more separated from the world. In particular, the Sundering saw the wholesale slaughtering of the Chosen. There will be a few Chosen still around, and a few fake ones as well, but it is no longer going to be every god has a Chosen. We get to see that played out in Dead in Thay and in the final book of the Sundering, "The Herald", by Ed Greenwood, although the Chosen are front-and-centre of most of the Sundering novels. (I still haven't read all of them, and some aren't that good, but anyway...)At present, the baseline for the Realms is still contained in the 4E books, with modifications coming from the Neverwinter Campaign Setting (excellent, excellent book) and the D&D Next adventures. Hoard of the Dragon Queen describes activities of the Cult of the Dragon, but doesn't change that much (save the fate of Greenest); Rise of Tiamat changes things up a bit more, especially with regard to the Lords of Waterdeep, but I'm not familiar enough yet with the product. Give me a couple more months!Cheers!</blockquote>

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