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

 

[Badvoc]

Sounds like an interesting addition to the Realms, I might have to pick this up.

 

[Weiley31]

Now we just need the "Exploring Eberron" book now.

 

[R_J_K75]

I read the forward on this in the preview. Aside from this being a lawless land with a lot of wizards, rife with even-more-monstrous monsters, is it safe to say that the key selling point of this book is that PC's can carve out and rule their own kingdom? I don't know much on the region besides what I read in a Polyhedron Magazine, there hasn't been much detailed on the area correct?

 

[dave2008]

I think that this is official will make @gyor happy?

 

[dave2008]

I wonder if this the best time to be launching this. I hope the have some PR plans for after things settle down economically. I wish them the best of luck and hope it leads to more products in a similar vein.

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

I read the forward on this in the preview. Aside from this being a lawless land with a lot of wizards, rife with even-more-monstrous monsters, is it safe to say that the key selling point of this book is that PC's can carve out and rule their own kingdom? I don't know much on the region besides what I read in a Polyhedron Magazine, there hasn't been much detailed on the area correct?

Yeah, there were the articles in Polyhedron, some later parts were covered in Power of Faerun (IIRC; it may have been one of the other late 3.xE era books), and then some were covered on the WotC website. This, however, is a complete update of all the Border Kingdoms and includes an even better map than had previously been published.

 

[EthanSental]

Glad to have the POD available for it now too...it’s currently a silver seller, let’s hopefully see it go up in rankings to show similar products need to be made.

 

[R_J_K75]

Yeah, there were the articles in Polyhedron, some later parts were covered in Power of Faerun (IIRC; it may have been one of the other late 3.xE era books), and then some were covered on the WotC website. This, however, is a complete update of all the Border Kingdoms and includes an even better map than had previously been published.

Thinking of picking up the softcover of this. Has anyone bought any POD books off DM Guild that can attest to the quality? The map really looks nice, hoping I'll be able to read the print version with my poor eyesight.

 

[jgsugden]

If official, I wonder if D&D Beyond will be tackling it?