D&D General Forgotten Realms Alternate Dimensions

[dazzlerdal]

A thread about a project i've been working on for a while now.

It started out as a webzine with articles on different ways of interpreting forgotten realms canon, and now its morphed into a full blown alternative version of the Forgotten Realms that is almost exactly the same as the 1356 DR version of the realms, but doesn't allow gods to directly interact with mortals.

The Alternate Forgotten Realms

This is the home page's excerpt

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I've got Unther and Mulhorand done to include the history and people and places and magic items and organsations

The Old Empires

The Old Empires region is a land apart from the rest of Faerun in many respects. Situated on the south and eastern shores of the Sea of Fallen Stars, the Old Empires have their own people, their ow…

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The Moonshae Isles are halfway there with Gywnneth and Alaron the most details

Isle of Gwynneth

Overview The Isle of Gwynneth is the largest of the Moonshae Isles, filled with swamps, valleys, forests, plains, mountains, and all the wondrous variety of the natural world. Gwynneth is home to n…

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Isle of Alaron

Overview The Isle of Alaron is an island split into two; its northern half home to the Kingdom of Gnarhelm, its southern half home to the Kingdom of Callidyrr, both kingdoms are among the most powe…

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I've been working on Chult recently and i've got an idea of where i want to go with it and the lore (Chult's shadow plane analogue is a gigantic prison)

Chult

Timeline Mhairshualk The Empire of Mhairshaulk was founded by sarrukh clans that were driven from Okoth in a civil war caused by differing opinions on maintaining the purity of the sarrukh race (th…

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And lastly i've just started Cormyr, i'm busy getting all the lore together in one place, but there is a veritable mountain of information to climb

Cormyr

Timeline In the beginning, the rule of Cormyr was a difficult one. Indeed, there were times when the king was forced to rule not from his throne in Suzail, but to relocate to one of the outposts, s…

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[dave2008]

That is a big project - good luck!

 

[dazzlerdal]

Thank you. If I have enough years I intend to do the entirety of the realms. Try and compile everything into one place as an enormous resource, and add my own little twists along the way

 

[Larnievc]

That’s a grand undertaking! I like your vision and ambition!

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Dope as hell!

I am running an AU Realms game right now. It started as a stock 4e Realms game, but right now the party is in Abeir trying to find a way home, and have discovered that there is a party of adventurers on Abeir that bear a suspicious resemblance to the gods Mask, Helm, Mystra, Shaundakul, Azuth, and a mystery member they haven’t identified.

This Mask and Helm are femme presenting non-binary, and kinda a couple-ish. (Like, frenemies who sleep together) Mystra is a teen girl with Autism, Azuth is her uncle and caretaker, Shaundakul is a half-elf disaster bear bisexual dad-friend, and the mystery person is a femme Drow.

when they return to Toril, it will involve going through several versions of Toril, and their own lives, to finally find their true home.

but the AU stuff started a while back, when I rejected things like Cormyr walling off a city to make it a prison. Not in my realms!

 

[dazzlerdal]

I have disagreed with many things that have been done in the realms over the years, especially events in the novels.
If you make your own version of the realms then you have the freedom to do it all your own way and at the very least you can make things consistent.
Keep at your own alternate universe and find a way to get it out there for others to use. The premise for my alternate realms is that every cataclysm in realms history (and there are a lot), has created a new version of the sphere that is smaller and where things progress differently from the parent. So there can be any number of alternate versions spread across the multi verse, some so similar that a visitor to both might not even notice any difference.