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.

 

[GarrettKP]

For anyone with the book...how do the other Faction rewards compare to getting a Dragon Egg??

Some are great, some are very story-dependent (like getting to have an audience with leaders of the faction).

As a note, the dragon egg reward does not guarantee the Dragon will stick around with you when it hatches. You are just asked to care for the egg until it hatches. After that, it is up to the DM.

 

[Parmandur]

Toronto was established in 1793, which means a) it has nothing medieval, and b) it has nothing more than 232 years old - the Sword Coast cities all have much longer histories.

The vibe is very Toronto, however. It is Greenwood's pastiche of Sword & Sorcery urban tropes with his hometown.

 

[Parmandur]

Some are great, some are very story-dependent (like getting to have an audience with leaders of the faction).

As a note, the dragon egg reward does not guarantee the Dragon will stick around with you when it hatches. You are just asked to care for the egg until it hatches. After that, it is up to the DM.

So, pretty story dependent too.

And high Level characters will not be too turbo powered by hanging out with a Wyrmling.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

The vibe is very Toronto, however. It is Greenwood's pastiche of Sword & Sorcery urban tropes with his hometown.

Waterdeep seems more like Venice to me (without the waterways). What about Waterdeep specifically says Toronto? I mean, other than things that you would expect to find in any major port city.

 

[TravDoc42]

So the Mulhorandi gods still share the names of the IRL Egyptian pantheon, for those who were wondering that! (I think it was this thread that was discussing that.)

The section in Heroes of Faerûn about it mentions "gods with names like Anhur, Horus-Re, and Set". It goes into detail about more of them, like how Mulhorandi commanders pray to Anhur, General of the Gods, when fighting Unther.

 

[Yaarel]

The vibe is very Toronto, however. It is Greenwood's pastiche of Sword & Sorcery urban tropes with his hometown.

Waterdeep seems more like Venice to me (without the waterways). What about Waterdeep specifically says Toronto? I mean, other than things that you would expect to find in any major port city.

Baldurs Gate might intentionally be "London-esque" − in distinction to Celtic Britain (with some Viking Period towns) across the Moonshae Isles.

I view Neverwinter as Stockholm.

Waterdeep may be some European densely populated coastland geographically between.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I view Neverwinter as Stockholm.

Neverwinter is warmer than it's latitude suggests, due to the weird effect of a nearby volcano. So it's warmer than Stockholm.

Lubeck was the largest city in the Hanseatic league, and thus might be the closest equivalent to Waterdeep, although a lot of the art I've seen seems more suggestive of Venice. I've never been there, but I think these days Kiel has overtaken it in significance.

 

[Yaarel]

Neverwinter is warmer than it's latitude suggests, due to the weird effect of a nearby volcano. So it's warmer than Stockholm.

Lubeck was the largest city in the Hanseatic league, and thus might be the closest equivalent to Waterdeep, although a lot of the art I've seen seems more suggestive of Venice.

Heh, climate change is making the Nordic Lands warmer. (As long as the Gulf Stream keeps cycling properly.)

The big reason for Stockholm is the conscientiousness culture and benign government with prosperous economy. Plus the vast forest!

Stockholm is at the edge of the Hanseatic League of prosperous coastal townships.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Toronto was established in 1793, which means a) it has nothing medieval, and b) it has nothing more than 232 years old - the Sword Coast cities all have much longer histories. Ed is Canadian, but I don't think he really used his local cities as primary inspiration.

Your being to literal, its a more subtle influence.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

The region backgrounds use PHB origin feats. I can’t remember the Old Empires background exactly but for some reason I think it was lucky.

Epic Boons are a mixed bag. Some very good, some seem less than Epic.

They really should have playtested the feats and spells at the same time as Subclasses, wildly unbalanced with each other. My personal favourite Boon of Fluid Form.

Also those Chosen Feats, don't exist, being Chosen appears to be purely fluff.