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.

 

[Fenris-77]

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

It works pretty well in 17 by 22 chunks. What it's good for isn't being visible all at once anyway, IMO. It's a great table top to play with in an urban campaign when the players are supposed to have great area knowledge.

 

[R_J_K75]

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

I seem to remember back in 2000's after they released the FR Interactive Atlas that they were working on a FR Interactive Encyclopedia. I could be mis-remembering though. Didn't Ed Greenwood just make mention of a book or project similar to this within the last few months?

 

[Nebulous]

I seem to remember back in 2000's after they released the FR Interactive Atlas that they were working on a FR Interactive Encyclopedia. I could be mis-remembering though. Didn't Ed Greenwood just make mention of a book or project similar to this within the last few months?

I loved that FR Atlas, that thing was so much fun to tinker with.

 

[R_J_K75]

I loved that FR Atlas, that thing was so much fun to tinker with.

Yes it was, unfortunately I got rid of mine years ago. I wonder if it would even run on a PC now or if you could find the patches anymore? Shame they got away from these type of products but with how much technology has changed since I suppose it makes sense.

 

[generic]

My guess is that it's the next Baldur's Gate Adventure, maybe a 13-20 adventure set in the Nine Hells.

Or, I don't know, maybe it's another adventure analect selection or whatever.

 

[Nebulous]

Yes it was, unfortunately I got rid of mine years ago. I wonder if it would even run on a PC now or if you could find the patches anymore? Shame they got away from these type of products but with how much technology has changed since I suppose it makes sense.

I doubt it it would run. I never got rid of mine, but I don't know where the CD is, buried in some box. Although now you got me thinking about it so I'm going to dig around online about the atlas.

I wonder what a 2020 FR interactive atlas would look like nowadays?

 

[Fenris-77]

I think there's a lot of room for interactive e-maps in today's game. I'd be down.

 

[Nebulous]

I think there's a lot of room for interactive e-maps in today's game. I'd be down.

I would too. That would be pretty awesome.

 

[Nebulous]

Yes it was, unfortunately I got rid of mine years ago. I wonder if it would even run on a PC now or if you could find the patches anymore? Shame they got away from these type of products but with how much technology has changed since I suppose it makes sense.

Yes, it does run on Windows 10. The quality of the maps is pretty simplistic compared to what exists today, but damn, being able to flip through an entire continent and zoom in to street level cities, that was ambitious of them for 1999. They could do some pretty amazing stuff with this now. There would no doubt be a market for it, especially if you could import into Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds or export maps to print.

 

[Parmandur]

Nice dice. Don't think I'll need this set, but people turn 12 every day.