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.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

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

Sure, but he set them all along a Western Coast.

I'm sure you're right, but they can work in multiple ways. For example, Americans could also consider Neverwinter to be Seattle, if they were inclined.

It's true that Waterdeep isn't much like Seattle, so it only works the way I like to describe it because of location (though it's much further from Neverwinter than Vancouver is from Seattle).

Either way, I maintain being from Neverwinter.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Should probably learn more about San Francisco. We will end up ruling it one day.

Honestly, SanFran is too nice to be Baldur's Gate. I think BG might superficially look a bit like SanFran, but its personality is more like Los Angeles.

Toronto works, too, like HT says. That would make Ramazith's Tower the CN Tower. I can see it.

EDIT: Oh wait, HT said BG is Calgary. Hmm....

 

[Zardnaar]

Honestly, SanFran is too nice to be Baldur's Gate. I think BG might superficially look a bit like SanFran, but its personality is more like Los Angeles.

Toronto works, too, like HT says. That would make Ramazith's Tower the CN Tower. I can see it.

EDIT: Oh wait, HT said BG is Calgary. Hmm....

You say LA im hearing "future domain".

 

[pukunui]

The Murder in Baldur’s Gate module has a lot of excellent city stuff for the 5e historical transition.

Most of which got reprinted / updated in the Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus adventure. I’m not sure what more there is to add to all that.


EDIT: I’ve always equates BG with London. It’s got the fog and the clear divides between upper and lower classes, etc.

Also, my understanding was that Waterdeep was most like Amsterdam.

 

[zakael19]

Most of which got reprinted / updated in the Baldur’s Gate: Descrnt into Avernus adventure. I’m not sure what more there is to add to all that.

Ah, same way they reused most of the Crystal Shard stuff in Rime of the Frostmaiden.

Edit: I'm sure there will be some shout outs to BG3 events in the book, for those that matters to.