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

 

[R_J_K75]

I have most of those. There's one or two towns fleshed out with maps, though they aren't very detailed at all. Most of them are pretty decent modules though.

I read 2 or 3 of them too. I kind of blended them altogether for the lose basis of the campaign.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Here's an idea for someone between jobs. Go and do tremendous amounts of research. Then create an incredibly detailed gazeteer of FR. Pay someone to do maps that also are within canon. Release it the DM's guild and hit Adamantium seller and then finally just roll around in your cash... You'd at least get my money.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Here's an idea for someone between jobs. Go and do tremendous amounts of research. Then create an incredibly detailed gazeteer of FR. Pay someone to do maps that also are within canon. Release it the DM's guild and hit Adamantium seller and then finally just roll around in your cash... You'd at least get my money.

I'd buy it. There are a couple done, but none get close to the quality of say Keith Baker's Exploring Eberron book.