D&D General Forgotten Realms Book preview from NYCC

Nerd Initiative on YouTube previewed the new Forgotten Realms books with Mackenzie De Armas in this short video, including a quick flip-through of the Adventures in Faerun book.



During the quick flip-through, he shows off blurry but mostly readable pages from the Dalelands section of the book, including a few of the DMG-style adventures, including a level 13 adventure called Heart of Fire, where the party is asked to recover a magic item in an Adult Red Dragon's hoard.

Notably, none of the adventures you can see in the video seem to have any new monsters from the book included. Also, not all of the adventures are confined to a single page. Some seem to be at least a page and a half, while others are even smaller to just a half page.

 

[Parmandur]

I legit don't know what this means.

Sorry, Beyond. There are 10 Regions, and a Beyond section.

 

[Burnside]

Sorry, Beyond. There are 10 Regions, and a Beyond section.

Oh sorry. The Beyond part looks to be a ~2 page section with:

• About 1/2 a page on Chult with spotlights on Port Nyanzaru & Mezro
• 1/3 page on Evermeet
• 1/3 page on Lake of Steam with Akhapur spotlighted
• 1/3 page on Shaar with Lhesper and Shaarmid spotlighted
• 1/4 page on Sossal

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

This is even worse. Dragonborn, the most anti slavery of all the Realms races, now serving the slavelords of the Realms. Like, they not only destroyed the country, also the lore...

And people asks why I lost interest...

They specifically joined the civil war on the side of abolitionists. The mortal-ruled parts of Calimshan replaced slavery with industrialization, it's the genies who still own slaves IIRC.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Ed is Canadian. Waterdeep is more like Toronto. Baldur's Gate Calgary. Neverwinter Vancouver. Longsaddle Barrie. Silverymoon Montreal.

If Waterdeep is Toronto then how do people from Waterdeep pronounce Waterdeep? Asking from Neverwingter...

 

[Zeromaru X]

The lore you quoted doesn't say what you suggest.

Calimshan is Disneyland for slavers. Or at least, it was before this book.

 

[Epic Meepo]

Perhaps, when I feel less... Betrayed, I may choose that, now. For now, I'm thinking about dropping Forgotten Realms for good, lol. I have a 14 years old semi-ongoing campaign there, but like, I lost the interest, lol

I'd suggest keeping your eyes on the DM's Guild for a couple weeks before you give up on the Realms altogether. Full disclosure: I may have ulterior motives for suggesting this...

 

[Scribe]

If Waterdeep is Toronto then how do people from Waterdeep pronounce Waterdeep? Asking from Neverwingter...

Wahtahdeep

 

[Epic Meepo]

How about one where the Time of Troubles never happened, nor the Spellplague, nor the Sundering, but Many-Arrows and Dragonborn city-states are a thing?

Also a fun idea. Sort of a Grey Box Plus campaign.

 

[Parmandur]

For anyone with the book...how do the other Faction rewards compare to getting a Dragon Egg??

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Ed is Canadian. Waterdeep is more like Toronto. Baldur's Gate Calgary. Neverwinter Vancouver. Longsaddle Barrie. Silverymoon Montreal.

Toronto was established in 1793, which means a) it has nothing medieval, and b) it has nothing more than 232 years old - the Sword Coast cities all have much longer histories. Ed is Canadian, but I don't think he really used his local cities as primary inspiration.