D&D 5E Ed Greenwood's Border Kingdoms Now Available (& Official!)

From Forgotten Realms creator Ed Greenwood and writer Alex Kammer, The Border Kingdoms, a sourcebook for the Forgotten Realms, is now available in PDF, softcover, and hardcover format.

Additionally, the book is "an officially-approved Wizards of the Coast release, meaning that its content is Adventurers League legal and all the lore contained in the book is official Forgotten Realms canon!"

According to the sage Meriadas of Westgate: “The Border Kingdoms are the most favored destination for adventurers who want to proudly and boldly conquer a realm or establish their own new kingdom. Lords, counts, dukes, kings and emperors rise, proclaim themselves, and are swept away with the speed and regularity of waves crashing upon a shore.”

A legendary “frontier” corner of the Forgotten Realms, the Border Kingdoms are where adventurers come to carve out their own kingdom, flee retribution, hide treasure — or find someone else's treasure.

It is a hodgepodge of tiny realms ruled by kings, grand viziers, imperial overdukes, and all manner of cabals, councils, and self-titled nobles. It's full of ruins, folk who want to stay hidden, long-slumbering secrets, and adventures waiting to happen.

The Border Kingdoms is a valuable resource for Dungeon Masters and players alike. In addition to describing the people and places of the Border Kingdoms, this book contains enough adventure hooks and lore to keep adventuring parties busy for years.

The Border Kingdoms includes:

• Over 100 pages of lore about the Border Kingdoms
• A beautiful new map of the Border Kingdoms by Mike Schley
• 11 new and fully Adventures League legal character backgrounds
• Dozens of brand new illustrations
• Brand new campaign hooks

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

As someone who's never wanted to run a game in the Forgotten Realms, just because I don't want to try and keep pace with decades of lore, this seems like an ideal setting. I could easily see starting a campaign here, if my players wanted a Forgotten Realms experience.

 

[Badvoc]

As someone who's never wanted to run a game in the Forgotten Realms, just because I don't want to try and keep pace with decades of lore, this seems like an ideal setting. I could easily see starting a campaign here, if my players wanted a Forgotten Realms experience.

That's similar to my thinking. I'm planning to run a series of classic modules mixed with some homebrew adventures and have been looking for a relatively unused corner of the Realms to use as a backdrop.

 

[EthanSental]

Up to electrum best seller...moving up! I got a soft copy version on the way.

 

[SPECTRE666]

Downloaded the update. Got a hard cover copy on the way. The Border Kingdoms is perfect for an OSR Game.

 

[Stefano Rinaldelli]

This is excellent. The most qualified writer developing for the Forgotten Realms. Can't wait for George Krashnos supplement to come out as well.

Hi sir. Can you give me some more info about this? Thank you

 

[Badvoc]

I think this is a reference to The Crown of Earlann?

 

[EthanSental]

I think this is a reference to The Crown of Earlann?

Thanks for the link....oct 2019 so hopefully it’s getting closer to release..at 600 pages, POD looks less likely unless it’s in 2 files to print.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

They have actually put the new map as part of the preview on DMsGuild, and my lord it is gorgeous.

 

[Ibrandul]

Thanks for the link....oct 2019 so hopefully it’s getting closer to release..at 600 pages, POD looks less likely unless it’s in 2 files to print.

That one probably won’t be coming to DMs Guild at all, as they’re writing it for 3.5e mechanics. (Only 5e content or completely edition-neutral content is permitted on DMs Guild.) Personally, I wish both the Crown project and Illefarn Anew would be converted to 5e as big prestige DMs Guild releases. Such releases would surely get a lot of attention, but I’m not sure whether the revenue would be attractive enough to make it worth their while.

 

[Badvoc]

That one probably won’t be coming to DMs Guild at all, as they’re writing it for 3.5e mechanics. (Only 5e content or completely edition-neutral content is permitted on DMs Guild.) Personally, I wish both the Crown project and Illefarn Anew would be converted to 5e as big prestige DMs Guild releases. Such releases would surely get a lot of attention, but I’m not sure whether the revenue would be attractive enough to make it worth their while.

That would be superb. I was just reading Illefarn Anew earlier this week and a 5e version would save me doing the conversion work.