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.

 

[Burnside]

Any interesting items?

Aurora's Whole Realms catalogue offers pricing on 12 magic items (11 of which are new, I believe). 10 are fun, minor magical items for 50gp or less, often items of clothing from particular regions that offer minor magical benefits. I like these.

Priced at 4k gp is the windskiff, a necklace that changes into a hovering single-occupant vehicle that is basically Luke Skywalker's landspeeder but the size & shape of a door & can hover over land or water (1 inch off ground).

Pricing & descriptions also given for Mechanical Wonders (helper automatons from Calimshan), axe beaks, sled dogs, and flying snakes.

3 new musical intruments, covered wagon, and some regional transport rates.

 

[TravDoc42]

I picked up the books! The aranea, beast of Malar, and swanmay were pleasant surprises to return!

I am a teeny little disappointed about no saurials, though...

 

[Zeromaru X]

I find this utterly baffling that someone would drop a 14 year old campaign because of any action of Wizards. Why not simply ignore the books and stuff WotC publishes that one dislikes and continue along your original lines.

The peculiarities of the autistic brain. I just lost the interest. I will have to process this at my own pace.

 

[Parmandur]

What does the Gazateer in the Heroes book say about thw Neyond parrot the Realms...?

 

[Burnside]

Tiefling?

• Infernal tieflings are most common, but tieflings in general are rare. Talks about Asmodeus/Spellplague business but notes Asmodeus' gambit failed.
• In cities, tend to form communities & help each other
• Aglarond is a tiefling haven
• More common in Old Empires due to lots of divine activities
• Sizable population in Calimshan as they're comfortable in hot climate
• Devil-worshipping groups in Neverwinter & Baldur's Gate have tiefling members
• Some tieflings born to non-tiefling parents
• Tieflings banished en masse from Elturel a la Baldur's Gate 3

There are no new player-facing species-based mechanics in the book; just lore for the species. Each one gets what looks like 1/2 to 1/3 of a page.

 

[Zeromaru X]

Apparently the Syl-Pasha/Sultana of Calimshan fought a civil war with an army of Dragonborn mercenaries, so the new magitech genie ruled Calimshan could also be a population center for Dragonborn now that Tymanther is reduced.

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...

 

[Burnside]

What does the Gazateer in the Heroes book say about thw Neyond parrot the Realms...?

I legit don't know what this means.

 

[Burnside]

Have to head out for a bit; will answer more later if others haven't already.

 

[bedir than]

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...

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

 

[Scribe]

Some tieflings born to non-tiefling parents