D&D 5E Abeir as the new Forgotten Realms?

[Corinnguard]

If WoTC decided to once again make the Forgotten Realms it's default setting for 1D&D, I would like it if they handed the title not to the world of Toril, but it's long-lost twin, Abeir instead. While most fans of D&D have known about Abeir since it's mention in 2e, and when it and Toril swapped real estate during the Spellplague in 4e. But other than those few mentions, Abeir is a world that hasn't really been explored by D&D Players. We know so very little of that world. Thus it ought to be given the title of the Forgotten Realms now.

As for Toril, it's no longer forgotten. It was found ever since it came out in 2e. Why not give Abeir a chance?

 

[Shiroiken]

As for Toril, it's no longer forgotten

Everything outside of the Sword Coast has been...

 

[Baldurs_Underdark]

There is an enormous amount of lore, books, maps, etc for especially Faerun. It's a waste to not use that.

This huge treasure of information only allows DMs to plug their own homebrew story into a real setting without having to create a world.

I would turn the argument around: If you make the Forgotten Realms the default again, please give us the whole map at once, updated to whatever year (Dalereckoning) you like, and not just the Swordcoast! There is not one complete map for 5e for Faerun, let alone the whole world.

 

[aco175]

For some reason I think Maztica is still part of Abier and never came back. That land is now Returned Abeir or such. Although I would not want to play that setting or think Wizards would touch it again.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

I'd be down with that. Given the whole ''First World'' thing they are going for, Abeir would be a good place to expand: dragon lords, less Tolkien-races, less structured magic etc...

 

[Maxperson]

There would be no surer way to get me to stop buying FR books.

 

[Weiley31]

Everything outside of the Sword Coast has been...

Gotta live up to the term "Forgotten Realms" somehow.

 

[Corinnguard]

Everything outside of the Sword Coast has been...

Everything outside of the Sword Coast in 5e has been forgotten by WoTC. Back in 3e D&D, it seemed like there was an accessory that covered a every inch of Faerun.

 

[Weiley31]

Everything outside of the Sword Coast in 5e has been forgotten by WoTC. Back in 3e D&D, it seemed like there was an accessory that covered a every inch of Faerun.

Ya the Campaign Setting Guide and the various splats of areas did a great job of that.

 

[Corinnguard]

A lot of the 3e fluff of the Forgotten Realms could still be used in 5e. It's only the crunch from 3e that needs to be updated for 5e.