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

 

[gyor]

What are the differences between this product and the Adventurers League's The Border Kingdoms 2018?

The Border Kingdoms (2018)

From the introduction: 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...

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The difference is a new kick arse map, a trinkets chapter, and character backgrounds that are super awesome. Oh and the nicest cover I've seen on any 5e official canon book IMHO, I wish they were all like that, sadly most don't come close, except for the collector covers.

Oh and its more an updated product, instead of a new product, because I check my drivethrurpg/dmsguild library, redowned it all, and its the new version, so I don't have to buy it a second time.

I hope Gamehole Con comes out with a great AP to go with it.

My only complaint is not with the content, but rather with PDF file itself, each page comes up painfully slow when reading it, even the contents do at first too, a problem I've never had with any of the PDFs I get off of Drivethrurpg sites before.

 

[gyor]

Rereading this book, I had the strangest thought, that the MtG team could take this book and make an absolutely amazing Magical the Gather card set just for the Border Kingdoms alone. Like for example I could see a Lake of Steam Land that grants Red or Blue Mana, or Godswalk Keep Land offering white and black mana, Druuth creature card, and soooo much more. That I now think like this is the entire fault of James Wyatt and his coconspirators with their Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica and Mythic Odysseys of Theros drawing me into their world view of a colour pie chart.

It also explains why FR will never get an MtG set, a small minor region of FR like the Border Kingdoms has more going on and more history then most MtG settings, I mean you could do a whole exciting set of 250 cards there easy, maybe a whole block there!

To do all of Faerun they'd have to do their first 10,000 card set there, and to do all of Realmspace they'd have to do their first 100,000 set of cards!

 

[Mournblade94]

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

I know that George has said he is working with another person on a major area. He is currently working on it. It will be a supplement for 3rd edition but like all of that it can easily be converted. I would have to go back into my facebook and check. It won't be official product, but Krash's cred is very high on the FR.

 

[Stefano Rinaldelli]

I know that George has said he is working with another person on a major area. He is currently working on it. It will be a supplement for 3rd edition but like all of that it can easily be converted. I would have to go back into my facebook and check. It won't be official product, but Krash's cred is very high on the FR.

Thank you Sir. Sad about 3rd edition... but it would be wonderful if GK, who is a giant of FR, could produce an hardcover module full of lore in the DM's Guild. Also a 5th ed. Illefarn Anew would be wonderful.

I miss a lot the FR lore modules from 3rd edition. I collect them all and what I really need is in first instance new geographical areas covered and in second instance a re-load of already covered areas.

I appreciate new things, but even for money saving, I prefer to concentrate over a single setting going deeper and deeper inside it than produce 1 setting a-month like WOTC is doing now. And I don't know if multiply settings is a good businness model. Remember TSR? Every new "line" is a new tree that produces branches that produces sprigs and so on, but it seems to me that the risk is to have an intricated forest of little trees. However it is good if some new tree born and I don't exclude that if a new tree is very promising I can concentrate on it leaving the old tree for a while or forever, so It's good if there are new products. But to forget FR in this way, after having elected it as the main setting for 5th edition...

 

[dave2008]

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

Up to gold best seller now...still moving up!

 

[gyor]

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

Where was it at before the update?

 

[dave2008]

Where was it at before the update?

Silver before the update, then to Electrum and gold after the update.

 

[gyor]

Silver before the update, then to Electrum and gold after the update.

Thanks. I look forward to it hitting Platium, I mean its Ed Greenwood and its one of if not the best dmsguild product and its official, not fanon.

 

[dave2008]

Thanks. I look forward to it hitting Platium, I mean its Ed Greenwood and its one of if not the best dmsguild product and its official, not fanon.

Honestly I am surprised it is taking so long to climb, makes me wonder if there has been any kind of marketing push at all.

 

[EthanSental]

I guess no marketing that i was aware of. The only thing I knew and he done was that short story thing a couple years ago.