D&D 5E Realms Recent History

[pedro2112]

I am creating a campaign using the 4th ED. Neverwinter campaign guide. I did not run anything realms based during 4th ed. However, this guide is very impressive, one of the best Realms based guides that has been written. The only thing I am struggling with is what effect the sundering has on the spell plague.

 

[tomservo999]

I am creating a campaign using the 4th ED. Neverwinter campaign guide. I did not run anything realms based during 4th ed. However, this guide is very impressive, one of the best Realms based guides that has been written. The only thing I am struggling with is what effect the sundering has on the spell plague.

Didn't the adventures Murder in Baldur's Gate and Legacy of the Crystal Shard cover that?I don't have either but I read somewhere that they dealt with the Sundering.

I found a time line on the forgotten realms wiki that gives a chronology of events all the way to 1485 DR. Now I can just start my campaign from 1374 and just pick and choose which events I want to use. I have not decided if I intend to use or even acknowledge the whole Spellplague.

 

[pedro2112]

Didn't the adventures Murder in Baldur's Gate and Legacy of the Crystal Shard cover that?I don't have either but I read somewhere that they dealt with the Sundering.

I didn't run those adventures. Are they still available to download?

 

[tomservo999]

I didn't run those adventures. Are they still available to download?

I don't know if they are available to download. I have seen both of them on Amazon though.

 

[Henrix]

Basically wizards is going back to the pre-4e Realms.

I've read two of the Sundering books, and looked at the Baldur's Gate comic. In all of them old characters are resurrected, one way or another, so that Drizzt can run around with Catti-Brie and so on.

Looks like they're trying to forget all that spellplague and stuff.
Would have been better for them to present it as an alternate universe FR, IMHO.

 

[Wolfskin]

Looks like they're trying to forget all that spellplague and stuff.
Would have been better for them to present it as an alternate universe FR, IMHO.

Yeah, I'm not sure the Sundering was the best way to handle it- that said, 4e FR's setting changes were terribly handled, IMO. Did't like the post-apocalyptic vibe and the hundred years time jump.

I'd personally make a big retcon to reboot the setting back to pre-4e instead of going forward in time.

 

[seregil]

1E Old Grey Box all the way. I am running a Pathfinder campaign and my source material is limited to FR1 to FR5. I pick and choose a bit from some of the 2e stuff (maps, mostly).

No overpowered NPCs, no magic items on every street corner, no mythals and Elminster is just another wizard.

Problem solved.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

1E Old Grey Box all the way. I am running a Pathfinder campaign and my source material is limited to FR1 to FR5. I pick and choose a bit from some of the 2e stuff (maps, mostly).

No overpowered NPCs, no magic items on every street corner, no mythals and Elminster is just another wizard.

Problem solved.

Best. Solution. EVAR!

(Only Elmunchkin is long dead in my continuity.)

 

[tomservo999]

1E Old Grey Box all the way. I am running a Pathfinder campaign and my source material is limited to FR1 to FR5. I pick and choose a bit from some of the 2e stuff (maps, mostly).

No overpowered NPCs, no magic items on every street corner, no mythals and Elminster is just another wizard.

Problem solved.

Yup....and if I could just find a copy of the old gray boxed set for less than $50 I would probably go this route myself.

 

[seregil]

Yup....and if I could just find a copy of the old gray boxed set for less than $50 I would probably go this route myself.

Ebay or Kijiji is your friend. I got my copy there.

That being said, once you have FR1 and FR5, you don't really need the campaign setting anymore. There's very little about the North in it. Assuming, of course, that is were you want to play.

EDIT: and the FR series is available on dndclassics.com