What will happen to the FORGOTTEN REALMS?
The Realms is going to embrace the fact that it has been so extensively developed, making that a feature rather than a drawback. A CD-ROM product featuring most of the out of print material published for the Realms will be released in either 2000 or 2001, depending on how fast the material can be scanned and prepared for distribution. That product will become the cornerstone of the setting, allowing future designers to reference even the most obscure part of Realmslore safe in the knowledge that locating more detailed information is only a mouseclick away for the DM. The second part of this strategy is the creation of a new hardback book that will be the standard reference for the Realms under 3rd Edition. This hardback will replace the current 2nd Edition FORGOTTEN REALMS boxed set. We expect to release this book in 2001.
