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.

 

[Weird Dave]

I've got a mostly complete setting supplement written for Myth Drannor detailing in about 1495 DR. I've held off releasing it until the new FR books come out, and it sounds like from the "official" map the City of Shade fell on the city but didn't leave much physical evidence. I had envisioned a deep fissure on the northwestern end of Myth Drannor where the flying enclave crashed, which simultaneously fractured the Mythal and created rifts to the Shadowfell.

Need to decide if I want to remove the fissure to make the map more like this one or keep it, but it sounds like the elven ruin itself doesn't get a lot of detail in the new book. Looking forward to diving into it and incorporating the changes to get Tatters of Myth Drannor up on DMsGuild before the end of the year!

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I mean, theybhave all 5 Home bases marked (I guess not in the Moonshaes, actually) ao anything beyond thwt thst gets marked is interesting.

I guess the Moonshaes as a whole is home base, including the sea, which given that they count it as a Swashbuckling region, not just fey/Knights of the round table kind of region suggests the Home Base/Bastion is a ship. I think a vehicle getting a map was mentioned somewhere.

The beauty of that is that you can then use that home base to visit BG, WD, NW, IWD, and Calimport with the same ship. With a Spelljamming Helm you can even venture further afield.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Rocket Jump? Mythal Repellent Batspray?

Some glairing omissions too.

Maybe a contingency spell teleported it. Or Shar picked it and moved it.

 

[Parmandur]

Maybe a contingency spell teleported it. Or Shar picked it and moved it.

Or maybe the Shadovar who survi ed the crash regrouped and are rebuilding in the wastes.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Or Shar picked it and moved it.

So what you are saying is, it’s a secret.

 

[Epic Meepo]

...Great Glacier (what is that mysterious green space in the middle of the glacier?)...

Novularond, the Peaks in the Ice, whose geothermal heat keeps them mostly free of snow and ice

 

[GarrettKP]

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www.dndbeyond.com

Beyond posted a preview adventure from the books.

Interestingly it is listed as a “DEITY (ILMATER) ADVENTURE” so seems the 50 one-page style adventurers are not exclusive to the regions.

 

[Parmandur]

Claim Your Copy of The Tenebrous Stone Adventure and Thwart Evil Cultists!

Does your party have what it takes to free a mining village from the grips off a malevolent evil? Claim this adventure at no cost and find out!

www.dndbeyond.com

Beyond posted a preview adventure from the books.

Interestingly it is listed as a “DEITY (ILMATER) ADVENTURE” so seems the 50 one-page style adventurers are not exclusive to the regions.

Seems like a pretty solid Level 3 challenge.

 

[Zaukrie]

Claim Your Copy of The Tenebrous Stone Adventure and Thwart Evil Cultists!

Does your party have what it takes to free a mining village from the grips off a malevolent evil? Claim this adventure at no cost and find out!

www.dndbeyond.com

Beyond posted a preview adventure from the books.

Interestingly it is listed as a “DEITY (ILMATER) ADVENTURE” so seems the 50 one-page style adventurers are not exclusive to the regions.

The quick play function is so nice. Once they give us real fog of war, that will be great. Of course, I stand by my previous post that the maps are much too boring for a great VTT use. I love a lot of what Schley does, but making exciting looking VTT maps is not what he does.

 

[Nathaniel Lee]

After closer inspection, I found two “new” monsters mentioned.

One adventure mentions the “Drow Priestess of Lolth” and another part of the book (not an adventure) mentioned the “Spores of Moander.”

Moander? That's a name I haven't heard in a very long time. In one campaign that ended earlier than expected late last year, I started to introduce hints of an ancient entity similar to Moander into my campaign world alongside saurian-like people, all on an island similar in a sense to the Isle of Dread from way back when. I'm definitely all for actively bringing Moander back into the forefront.