D&D 5E Would you buy a 5E updated reprint of the First Forgotten Realms Box Set

[jgsugden]

If WotC released a new boxed set that was a page for page reprint of the original Forgotten Realms boxed set with the only changes being updates to the stats inside of it to take the NPCs, etc... up to 5E stats and standards, would you buy it? A 'Tales of the Yawning Portal' style update to the boxed set?

 

[Demetrios1453]

If WotC released a new boxed set that was a page for page reprint of the original Forgotten Realms boxed set with the only changes being updates to the stats inside of it to take the NPCs, etc... up to 5E stats and standards, would you buy it? A 'Tales of the Yawning Portal' style update to the boxed set?

I don't think there would be enough changes in there to warrant a repurchase.

Now if they re-did the 3e FRCS, and removed the now unnecessary prestige classes and multi-page stat blocks and replaced them with new information (using that space to update to the re timeline perhaps?), yes, I would definitely consider a repurchase...

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[Charles Rampant]

I actually don't own a FRCG - I use SCAG instead. I'd certainly buy one that came out - but not just a straight reprint of an existing one. It would need to adhere to modern standards of writing and layout.

Though, who am I kidding? I own all the 5e books, I'm committed to buying everything they put out!

 

[pukunui]

No, I don't think so. I have both the 1e and 2e FR boxes, along with the 3e FRCG. I don't think I'd want a 5e *update* of any of those. What I would like is a truly 5e FR campaign guide of some kind. One that is set in the late 1400s DR and covers more than just the Sword Coast. It does seem like we're getting that piece by piece (Out of the Abyss covers [part of] the Underdark, Storm King's Thunder covers the North, Tomb of Annihilation will cover Chult), but I'd like something along the lines of SCAG but with more detail, especially for other parts of Faerûn.

 

[ccs]

No.
Because if it's exactly the same thing as I've already got save for a few new#s it'd be a waste of my gaming budget & shelf space.

 

[cbwjm]

I might, I'm not sure though since I could just use the original box set (or in my case, the 2e box set or even better the 3e campaign book). It's not too difficult to change an NPC with stats of a 5th level fighter to a 5e 5th level fighter, although I might also just use a veteran or something. The rest is just fluff.

What I'd really want is a timeline so that I can see what happened from the end of 3e, through the spell plague, and then into the sundering up to the first adventure path although at this point, I'm not sure that the designers even know what happened. They just set 5e years later so that they could change things.

 

[LapBandit]

SCAG and STK cover at least 1/3 - 1/2 of what they'd cover in an updated FRCG, we're not getting it.

 

[pukunui]

What I'd really want is a timeline so that I can see what happened from the end of 3e, through the spell plague, and then into the sundering up to the first adventure path although at this point, I'm not sure that the designers even know what happened. They just set 5e years later so that they could change things.

There's a definite gap during the one hundred year leap from 3e to 4e, but the SCAG has a decent summary of the events of the Sundering that took the Realms from 4e to 5e.

 

[cbwjm]

There's a definite gap during the one hundred year leap from 3e to 4e, but the SCAG has a decent summary of the events of the Sundering that took the Realms from 4e to 5e.

Really? I will have to reread it. I must have read it but can't recall. I guess it has been a while since I looked through SCAG.

 

[JeffB]

Very few actual stats in the OGB. Most of the numbers are stuff like "10th lvl paladin" anyway.


Waste of time, money, and effort.