D&D General "It’s A Gardening Exercise”: D&D’s Greg Bilsland On Remembering The Forgotten Realms In 2025 Fadomentals Article

[Henadic Theologian]

"It's A Gardening Exercise": D&D's Greg Bilsland On Remembering The Forgotten Realms In 2025 - The Fandomentals

Dan and Chris talk with D&D Executive Producer Greg Bilsland about the newest books exploring the wilds of Faerun

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Greg wants to do a Cormyr deep dive it's mentioned. Sadly no hints at what is in the 3rd DLC or when it will be announced.

 

[bergec]

Do these folks not have an editor? So many errors, it's embarrassing.

 

[THEMNGMNT]

Probably not. Economics of publishing are terrible these days.

 

[CharlesWallace]

Do these folks not have an editor? So many errors, it's embarrassing.

Yeah, that was my thought as well- it had so many weird turns of phrase or errors that I started wondering if it was generated via text to speech or something. But as THEMNGMNT said, I bet the economics of running a web site don't really allow for that.

 

[Demetrios1453]

A Cormyr deep-dive would be very much appreciated!

 

[darjr]

Thanks for posting this!

 

[Parmandur]

A Cormyr deep-dive would be very much appreciated!

In the context of the interview, the point being made was that they were trying to provide some thematic variety, so while Coromyr would be cool, the designers thought it would be too physically and thematically close to the Dalelands.

 

[Demetrios1453]

In the context of the interview, the point being made was that they were trying to provide some thematic variety, so while Coromyr would be cool, the designers thought it would be too physically and thematically close to the Dalelands.

I saw that. I was just expressing that I wouldn't say no to a Cormyr deep-dive if they were to do one.

 

[Bayushi_seikuro]

In the context of the interview, the point being made was that they were trying to provide some thematic variety, so while Coromyr would be cool, the designers thought it would be too physically and thematically close to the Dalelands.

Having grown up with the old Gold Box games, I have a soft-spot for the Dalelands and Moonsea. I'd enjoy a Cormyr book, but I'm used to them being more of an offscreen Good Guy kingdom that was squeezing the Dales from one side while the Zhents were an Evil Theocracy squeezing them from the other direction.

 

[Weird Dave]

As someone with a DMsGuild Cormyr adventure for Tier 1 PCs going through edits and a corresponding gazetteer to go along with it, I’m happy to hear the Dalelands section of the new book doesn’t cover the Forest Kingdom in great detail. I’m curious how much attention Myth Drannor gets in the new book though!