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]

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We are very different from Brits and Ameicans, how could you say such mean things?

Different, but related both ways: so I think it makes sense for an American to see the commonality, and similar from a British point of view. Aesthetically, there never was a Medieval Canada, so a Canadian "doing Medeival" is going to draw on British (and to some extent, German) tropes.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Different, but related both ways: so I think it makes sense for an American to see the commonality, and similar from a British point of view. Aesthetically, there never was a Medieval Canada, so a Canadian "doing Medeival" is going to draw on British (and to some extent, German) tropes.

Clearly you've never been to Mideval Times or Castle Loma in Toronto, both fun times.

 

[GarrettKP]

How does the book frame Cult of the Dragon characters...?

As in PCs? From what I’ve read they don’t really go out of their way to frame PCs as working for or against the cult. They simply say “this is what it means to be part of the Cult” and talk member benefits.

 

[Bae'zel]

Do either of these books include a fold out map?

 

[GarrettKP]

Do either of these books include a fold out map?

Yes. The Heroes book iirc. It’s a foldout of Faerun.

 

[Zardnaar]

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We are very different from Brits and Ameicans, how could you say such mean things?

Australians go to insult for us involves indecent acts with sheep.

My go to response is to call them a pack of try hard Americans. Gets them going.

Australian gaming server lol.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Different, but related both ways: so I think it makes sense for an American to see the commonality, and similar from a British point of view. Aesthetically, there never was a Medieval Canada, so a Canadian "doing Medeival" is going to draw on British (and to some extent, German) tropes.

Talking of which, did you ever see the 1950s British TV Robin Hood?

 

[Parmandur]

Talking of which, did you ever see the 1950s British TV Robin Hood?

I've seen a fair bit, it was oen of my dad's childhood favorites when it was broadcast over here.

There is a fairly large degree to which the whole Anglosphere shares some particular "Hollywood" faux-Medieval ideas.

 

[TravDoc42]

There's extensive references to the Shadovar in the books, and yet no stat blocks for them. I wonder if they'll be among the monsters included in Netheril's Fall? I also hope that supplement has beefier phaerimm in it!

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Do the Valindra and Sammaster statblocks vary from the generic lich statblock?

Are the spellfire spells evocation?

Any interesting items?

Valindra is variant on a lich with some of her own stuff, but is about as strong and is the same CR.

Sammaster is a bit more powerful and also has some of his own stuff, but has one major gimmick.

Spoiler

When destroyed he comes back as a Dracolich that eventually revives his normal lich form.