D&D General Forgotten Realms Book preview from NYCC

Nerd Initiative on YouTube previewed the new Forgotten Realms books with Mackenzie De Armas in this short video, including a quick flip-through of the Adventures in Faerun book.



During the quick flip-through, he shows off blurry but mostly readable pages from the Dalelands section of the book, including a few of the DMG-style adventures, including a level 13 adventure called Heart of Fire, where the party is asked to recover a magic item in an Adult Red Dragon's hoard.

Notably, none of the adventures you can see in the video seem to have any new monsters from the book included. Also, not all of the adventures are confined to a single page. Some seem to be at least a page and a half, while others are even smaller to just a half page.

 

[Weiley31]

Given that Shade was last seen in ruins, impaled on magic, on top of part of Myth Drannor, how the heck did its ruins end up back in Anauroch? Also squares are ruins, circles are cities.

Rocket Jump? Mythal Repellent Batspray?

Some random Shadovar: Hmm, that's strange. I wonder what this lever does.

Pulls it and the ruins of Shade is magically teleported back into Anauroch

 

[GarrettKP]

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[TheSword]

This is getting exciting!

 

[The Soloist]

The alternative covers, side-by-side look gorgeous! What is the ETA for these books?

 

[TravDoc42]

The alternative covers, side-by-side look gorgeous! What is the ETA for these books?

November 11th for the traditional release, and Oct. 28th for the FLGS early release!!

 

[Parmandur]

The alternative covers, side-by-side look gorgeous! What is the ETA for these books?

Tuesday at your FLGS.

 

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I don't think there's anything new here that we didn't know from UA or convention previews. I wonder if "Silver Marches" exists solely as a geographical term or if it's still considered a polity (much like "Italy" which used to refer to a region before becoming unified).

 

[THEMNGMNT]

I've got a mostly complete setting supplement written for Myth Drannor detailing in about 1495 DR. I've held off releasing it until the new FR books come out, and it sounds like from the "official" map the City of Shade fell on the city but didn't leave much physical evidence. I had envisioned a deep fissure on the northwestern end of Myth Drannor where the flying enclave crashed, which simultaneously fractured the Mythal and created rifts to the Shadowfell.

Need to decide if I want to remove the fissure to make the map more like this one or keep it, but it sounds like the elven ruin itself doesn't get a lot of detail in the new book. Looking forward to diving into it and incorporating the changes to get Tatters of Myth Drannor up on DMsGuild before the end of the year!

My 2026 campaign will be set in the Dales and centered around Myth Drannor, so definitely interested in quality supplements for this location.

 

[Zeromaru X]

It is interesting looking at a high quality version of the endpaper map, what locations get called out and mentioned or not. As @Henadic Theologian clocked on the Beadles & Grimm DM Screen, the city of Shade is called out in the Anauroch ...
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Just from this map, seems they removed the lakes from the area Tymanther was supposed to be located. I don't want to sound pessimistic, but as an autistic person, it's a big let down to see they removed the area I was hyper focused on, lol.

But, there are still a couple of weeks left to see the full book...

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Just from this map, seems they removed the lakes from the area Tymanther was supposed to be located. I don't want to sound pessimistic, but as an autistic person, it's a big let down to see they removed the area I was hyper focused on, lol.

But, there are still a couple of weeks left to see the full book...

The Sundering changed the landmass to more like 1e, so don't read too much into that. One of the Dragonborn cities was on the Alamber Sea. The other might still be on a river.

Really we know Unther, Mulhorand, and Chessenta are ruled by living (incarnated) Gods, that's it, but a lot could have changed, but I don't see them getting rid of the Dragonborn cities just because a couple of lakes are gone. They are probably one of the most popular parts of 4e changes at this point thanks to Erin M. Evans novels.