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.

 

[Nebulous]

I would like a Dark Sun setting/campaign for levels 1-5.

 

[R_J_K75]

This should say it all. Im looking through some old burned CDs and came across some bookmarks. Apparently at one point there was a website called "Yet Another Forgotten Realms Web Page", I bookmarked it 3/23/2001.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I've found that "official" D&D dice don't sell very well - it's down to the price point. They are sooo much more expensive than other, similar dice, even with the nice add-ons. These look nice, though.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

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 it may have to do with the Sword Coast being largely the same in every edition of the game. Who runs what city or country changes, but no nations got dropped into the ocean or transported to another world or whatever. Almost every edition has FR fans who prefer to pretend it's still their era of FR.

In my Realms, there are still big sinkholes covering many miles of terrain that act as half-way points to the underdark, and earth motes, and tons of Genasi in Calimshan, and when this campaign ends, we will jump forward a bit between campaigns (if we do end up doing another FR campaign), and things will be different, but it still won't be the 5e Realms.

The PCs are on a path to take down Netheril, and bring back several gods who are currently running around Abier in "mortal" bodies as an adventuring party that don't know who they really are, and bring Lantan back to Toril, and some other stuff.

The adventuring gods are a young female sorcerer who seems to channel raw magic (Mystra), her adoptive father who is a wizard and scribe (Azuth), a paladin of The Peace (an oath basically dedicated to keeping the peace and protecting stuff and adjudicating things impartially, Helm), a young elven ranger known for helping travellers in need (Shaundakul), and a friendly but lethal young thief with a penchant for leaving wealthy and powerful corpses behind him (Mask, who has been influenced by his chosen toward a focus on "just" assassination, and who may be a patron of "avenger" types when they return to Faerun).

So, while I'd love a subclass for Hathran from Rashemen, I'm not exactly chomping at the bit to find out what they come up with for the current state of Rashemen.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

And did anyone notice the card behind Laeral? I think it looks like a Shifter. Pointy ears, but a vaguely animal nose.

Looked like a pre-4e tiefling to me.

 

[Traveller]

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.

It runs its runs ;-)
Had fun drawing some of those maps... Once I had time...

 

[R_J_K75]

It runs its runs ;-)
Had fun drawing some of those maps... Once I had time...

I looked through a bunch of old files but if I kept a back up I either cant find it or it was on a CD that got corrupted so I threw it out. Although I did find the booklet for the AD&D Core Rules 2.0 Expansion & D&D 3E Character Generator, those should sell for a cool mil on Ebay.

 

[Augreth]

... I doubt those index cards are all that useful at this point. We'll see.

depends on the adventure they’ll be publishing later this year.

 

[Shiroiken]

I sympathize with anyone disappointed that this is not Greyhawk.

After 3E, I'm kinda glad they've forgotten about Greyhawk. While Ghosts of Saltmarsh did a pretty good job, I'm still leery of WotC's treatment of my favorite setting.

 

[realmprotector]

At least these are affordable, unlike the anniversary dice set