D&D 5E More Details About Laeral Silverhand’s Explorer’s Kit

This press release just dropped into my inbox. Laeral Silverhand Explorer’s Kit contains dice, cards, and a map. This comes out on the same day as the as-yet unnamed D&D hardcover on March 17th, whose identity will be revealed on Thursday.

Explore the realms! Wizards of the Coast once again is presenting new dice and miscellany for the world’s greatest roleplaying game. Forgotten Realms Laeral Silverhand Explorer’s Kit builds on the success of Waterdeep: Dragon Heist. Forgotten Realms Laeral Silverhand Explorer’s Kit will be available in stores everywhere on March 17, 2020!

Let Laeral Silverhand – Open Lord of Waterdeep, centuries-old archmage, and daughter of the goddess of magic – guide you on your path to adventure. The new kit includes eleven dice placed in a durable, felt-lined box that functions as two dice trays. Fans can also enjoy the twenty illustrated, double-sided cards detailing Laeral’s expert insights on key characters, locations, and lore from across the Forgotten RealmsTM and a foldout double-sided map of the Sword Coast and city of Waterdeep.

• Eleven dice (two d20s, one d12, two d10s, one d8, four d6s, one d4).
• Twenty illustrated, double-sided cards detailing Laeral's expert insights on key characters, locations, and lore from across the Forgotten Realms.
• A durable, felt-lined box that functions as two dice trays.
• Foldout double-sided map of the Sword Coast and the city of Waterdeep.

 

[Yenrak]

If I recall correctly, the Crown is in Skullport beneath Waterdeep. I think it is owned by a yuan-ti whose name I forget and may now be a lich.

 

[Nebulous]

I don't know why they're doing MORE sword coast. The Realms is a damn big place, it seems like they've really focused on it too much.

 

[R_J_K75]

I don't know why they're doing MORE sword coast. The Realms is a damn big place, it seems like they've really focused on it too much.

Or scraping the bottom of the barrel and have run out of original ideas. Im not too excited about another FR book let alone one set in the Sword Coast.

 

[Yenrak]

One advantage of setting things on the Sword Coast is that there already is a book about the region. So DMs new to the Sword Coast have a reference book they can turn to. And the High Forest is a pretty wild and unexplored place.

 

[Quickleaf]

I know! Why are they so large?!

It may be a design for accessibility for people with blindness or anyone with a disability that has trouble distinguishing die types.

 

[Nebulous]

Or scraping the bottom of the barrel and have run out of original ideas. Im not too excited about another FR book let alone one set in the Sword Coast.

I like the Realms, but there's so much weird stuff out there they could focus on instead of the same ground they've gone over for years now. What about Unther and Mulhorand and Aglarond? I vaguely remember these from 2e as being interesting.

I'd really just want to see Dark Sun or Spelljammer personally, something different.

 

[Fenris-77]

For all that there's a metric ton of books for the Realms, in terms of 5E material it's really not that over-developed, IMO anyway - i have everything and I don't feel over-sourced. I don't think that fleshing out the Sword Coast first and then branching out is a bad way to go, even if it's not to everyone's taste. They can drop another Realms Area Sourcebook a year for years and not run out of new places. This gives them something to release in between other premier releases like Setting Books and whatnot.

Also, it's not as though the entire audience for the game has as much exposure to to the Realms as some of the experienced long-time players who post here (like me- you can pry my copy of City System from my cold, dead, hands). Those people are generally not going to own or be familiar with the ton of previous edition FR source books and are likely to be far more receptive to additional 5e FR materials. To them it wouldn't perhaps feel like just more of the same whatnot.

That 'something different' is, I'm sure, in the works, but it's not going to happen every release.

 

[R_J_K75]

I like the Realms, but there's so much weird stuff out there they could focus on instead of the same ground they've gone over for years now. What about Unther and Mulhorand and Aglarond? I vaguely remember these from 2e as being interesting.

I'd really just want to see Dark Sun or Spelljammer personally, something different.

I think at this point to one extent or another they at least touched on just about every region of the Realms, and detailed some parts to death. Nimbral is probably the only one I can think of that hasn't gotten any more than a paragraph, in 2E.

I too would prefer some other setting such as Spelljammer or Darksun. Something new even if its a generic adventure or sourcebook would be better than the Sword Coast.

 

[R_J_K75]

you can pry my copy of City System from my cold, dead, hands

You could side a house with those maps they were so ridiculously huge. Although the random tables I still use.

 

[Nebulous]

I think at this point to one extent or another they at least touched on just about every region of the Realms, and detailed some parts to death. Nimbral is probably the only one I can think of that hasn't gotten any more than a paragraph, in 2E.

I too would prefer some other setting such as Spelljammer or Darksun. Something new even if its a generic adventure or sourcebook would be better than the Sword Coast.

Hmm. Nimbral. I recall the name but nothing about it. (Ok I googled it). I think we will get a Spelljammer or Dark Sun eventually. Hopefully both.