D&D General Forgotten Realms Books Tables of Contents

Parmandur · 2025-10-28T16:54:47+0000

Demetrios1453 said:
The Schley map of the setting is gorgeous.

Heck, the price for both books might be worth all the cartography alone.

Parmandur · 2025-10-28T16:56:30+0000

Maxperson said:
I see it's still basically the Sword Coast. Calimshan and Icewind Dale are on that coast, and the Moonshaes are off of it. The only significant expansion away from the Sword Coast is the Dale Lands.

I also wish they had included Baelnorn in the bestiary.

I mean, if you want to be technical, the "Sword Coast" proper is only between Waterdeep and Baldur's Gate, neither Icewind Dale or Calimport are on the Sea of Swords.

However, if you look to the 50 page Gazateer of Faerûn in the Heroes book, it covers the entire northern 2/3 of the continent, including the Unapproachable East.

Parmandur · 2025-10-28T16:57:04+0000

Demetrios1453 said:
They did not, I repeat NOT, shy away from using real-life Egyptian deity names in the Mulhorand section. The current deities of Mulhorand remain Horus-Re and the like.

Reeeeeaaaly, that's wild. Any other juicy details about the Old Empires?

Zaukrie · 2025-10-28T17:12:09+0000

huh, guess I forgot ot order this on beyond.

CM · 2025-10-28T18:06:49+0000

Me: (encourages new-to-D&D players of my new Phandelver campaign to read up on The North section)
Heroes of Faerun: (spoils the plot of Phandelver & Below: The Shattered Obelisk)

el-remmen · 2025-10-28T18:07:18+0000

I have little interest in running the Realms, but these ToCs are piquing my interests, the organization of sections alone makes me eager to read more, and strikes me as a great framework for expanding areas in the future or for use in presenting areas in other settings.

Zaukrie · 2025-10-28T18:21:31+0000

CM said:
Me: (encourages new-to-D&D players of my new Phandelver campaign to read up on The North section)
Heroes of Faerun: (spoils the plot of Phandelver & Below: The Shattered Obelisk)

The PC book has plot points in it? I mean, I guess it has to, to have history.

CM · 2025-10-28T18:27:27+0000

Frustratingly, the spells section does not update any of the cantrips from SCAG, such as green-flame blade, booming blade, etc.

The new spells are (many/most updates from earlier editions)

Alustriel's Mooncloak, L5 abjuration (bard, druid, ranger, wiz)
Backlash, L4 abjuration (bard, sorc, lock, wiz)
Blade of Disaster (no longer black), L9 conjuration (sorc, lock, wiz)
Cacophonic Shield, L3 evocation (bard, sorc, wiz)
Conjure Constructs, L3 conjuration (wiz)
Death Armor, L2 necromancy (sorc, wiz)
Deryan's Helpful Homunculi, L2 conjuration (cler, wiz)
Dirge, L6 enchantment (bard, cler)
Doomtide, L4 conjuration (bard, cler, lock)
Elminster's Effulgent Spheres (formerly Epuration), L6 evocation (druid, sorc, wiz)
Elminster's Elusion, L2 abjuration (wiz)
Holy Star of Mystra, L8 evocation (cler, wiz)
Laeral's Silver Lance, L3 evocation (cler, sorc, wiz)
Simbul's Synstodweomer, L7 transmutation (sorc, wiz)
Songal's Elemental Suffusion, L5 transmutation (druid, sorc, wiz)
Spellfire Flare, L1 evocation (sorc, wiz)
Spellfire Storm, L4 evocation (sorc, wiz)
Sylune's Viper, L3 conjuration (druid, wiz)
Wardaway, L1 abjuration (bard, cler, pal, wiz)

The list seems pretty frontloaded on the A-E, I wonder what got cut for space.

Maxperson · 2025-10-28T18:28:31+0000

Parmandur said:
I mean, if you want to be technical, the "Sword Coast" proper is only between Waterdeep and Baldur's Gate, neither Icewind Dale or Calimport are on the Sea of Swords.

However, if you look to the 50 page Gazateer of Faerûn in the Heroes book, it covers the entire northern 2/3 of the continent, including the Unapproachable East.

I saw that, but relatively few pages cover the whole thing. It's pretty much a high level overview of those areas.

CM · 2025-10-28T18:31:17+0000

Zaukrie said:
The PC book has plot points in it? I mean, I guess it has to, to have history.

In the paragraph about Phandalin it talks about what's going on below the town, specifically the Shattered Obelisk and who's collecting it.

Fragments of Netherese civilization also dot this region, including pieces of psychic crystal. Mind flayers lairing in the Underdark beneath Phandalin collect these crystals and use them to mutate innocent victims in an elaborate scheme to create a new empire in Faerûn.

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