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.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

It sounds like the Dales are more like 4e Nentir Vale / Points of Light?

Yes but. Most PoL seem to focus on the idea of humanity (and allies) barely holding out against the monsters. Whereas in the Dalelands it's the monsters who are barely holding out against all the high level adventurers!

 

[TheSword]

Yes but. Most PoL seem to focus on the idea of humanity (and allies) barely holding out against the monsters. Whereas in the Dalelands it's the monsters who are barely holding out against all the high level adventurers!

I’m seriously considering running Elminster as a standard mage (if a lecherous one) with a very good PR firm and a flair for the dramatic to make himself seem grander than he is. Almost wizard of oz like. Definitely an illusionist specialist wizard.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

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Interesting that Battledale was apparently attacked by "Sembians and their Shadovar allies". Is that a new development?

This occurred during the Sundering.

Before that much of Sembia except cities closest to Cormyr had been conquered by Shade. When Shade went to war with nations like Cormyr, Myth Drannor, and the Dalelands and maybe others during the early Sundering Myth Drannor got destroyed by Shade landing on it, the Dalelands got trashed, but liberated, and Cormyr at the end pulled back its borders to their original size, no longer able to protect the areas it had expanded to in the post Spellplague era.

 

[TravDoc42]

This occurred during the Sundering.

Before that much of Sembia except cities closest to Cormyr had been conquered by Shade. When Shade went to war with nations like Cormyr, Myth Drannor, and the Dalelands and maybe others during the early Sundering Myth Drannor got destroyed by Shade landing on it, the Dalelands got trashed, but liberated, and Cormyr at the end pulled back its borders to their original size, no longer able to protect the areas it had expanded to in the post Spellplague era.

I didn't know that! Thank you so much!

 

[TheSword]

The novel is The Herald by Ed Greenwood.

 

[Parmandur]

It is interesting looking at a high quality version of the endpaper map, what locations get called out and mentioned or not. As @Henadic Theologian clocked on the Beadles & Grimm DM Screen, the city of Shade is called out in the Anauroch ...

 

[Henadic Theologian]

It is interesting looking at a high quality version of the endpaper map, what locations get called out and mentioned or not. As @Henadic Theologian clocked on the Beadles & Grimm DM Screen, the city of Shade is called out in the Anauroch ...
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Given that Shade was last seen in ruins, impaled on magic, on top of part of Myth Drannor, how the heck did its ruins end up back in Anauroch? Also squares are ruins, circles are cities.

It's interesting only certain cities are marked on the map, in the Swordcoast its Baldur's Gate & Waterdeep, in the North its Neverwinter (although the general area of Icewind Dale is labelled too), the Untheric city of Messemprar (they must have rebuilt it), Shadowdale, and Calimport. Certain important landmarks are labeled too Thaymount, Ilighon, Moonshaes, Icewind Dale, Great Glacier (what is that mysterious green space in the middle of the glacier?), ruins of Shade & Myth Drannor, Chult. These most likely are locations where the 50 adventures are set.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Given that Shade was last seen in ruins, impaled on magic, on top of part of Myth Drannor, how the heck did its ruins end up back in Anauroch? Also squares are ruins, circles are cities.

Rocket Jump? Mythal Repellent Batspray?

It's interesting only certain cities are marked on the map

Some glairing omissions too.

 

[Parmandur]

Some glairing omissions too.

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

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I just hope they’re doing something interesting with Shade.