D&D General Forgotten Realms Books Tables of Contents

The Table of Contents for both Heroes of Faerun and Adventures in Faerun.

Picked the books up this morning and love what I’ve seen so far. I’ll answer whatever questions I can here.

 

[Zeromaru X]

Sort of interested in whatever is going on with that lone Lore page at the start of the DM book. Will have to take a look when I go to my LGS this afternoon - I was hoping for a bit more of the broad strokes with the Realms, but it looks like some of that is contained inside the Player book. Might have to pick up both!

You mean, page 11 of the Adventures book? I can ask, if you are interested.

 

[TravDoc42]

Sort of interested in whatever is going on with that lone Lore page at the start of the DM book. Will have to take a look when I go to my LGS this afternoon - I was hoping for a bit more of the broad strokes with the Realms, but it looks like some of that is contained inside the Player book. Might have to pick up both!

It's a section on advice for dealing with the abundance of Forgotten Realms lore that exists, including a subsection on Experts At the Table: players who know a lot about the setting, and how to best deal with that while writing and running stories in Faerûn. It's honestly kinda handy!

 

[Azzy]

It's a section on advice for dealing with the abundance of Forgotten Realms lore that exists, including a subsection on Experts At the Table: players who know a lot about the setting, and how to best deal with that while writing and running stories in Faerûn. It's honestly kinda handy!

Huh. That's genuinely cool.

 

[Corinnguard]

But that stuff got retconned by 5e.

By some just revealed lore that Toril always had Dragonborn living on it prior to the Spellplague and the arrival of their Abeiran cousins. And somehow these Dragonborn were being mistaken for Lizardfolk and other scaly folk. The Torillian Dragonborn must be very proficient in the Deception skill.

 

[Demetrios1453]

By some just revealed lore that Toril always had Dragonborn living on it prior to the Spellplague and the arrival of their Abeiran cousins. And somehow these Dragonborn were being mistaken for Lizardfolk and other scaly folk. The Torillian Dragonborn must be very proficient in the Deception skill.

Probably more a combination of too many similar creatures, laziness, and poor taxonomy.

 

[Corinnguard]

Probably more a combination of too many similar creatures, laziness, and poor taxonomy.

With the 4e Dragonborn, this was somewhat understandable as none of them really looked like an anthropomorphic Chromatic, Metallic or Gem Dragon.

But when 5e came around, the Dragonborn gained 15 distinct looking subspecies that looked very much like anthropomorphic versions of the True Dragons. It's a bit of a stretch in 5e to mistake them now for Lizardfolk and Troglodytes.

 

[Nicholas Reed]

Many players do not know the difference between a retcon, and the world just moving on and the state of the world changing. A retcon is "Spider-Man never lost Gwen Stacy." The timeline moving on is "Spider-Man was dating Gwen and then she died."

 

[Zeromaru X]

With the 4e Dragonborn, this was somewhat understandable as none of them really looked like an anthropomorphic Chromatic, Metallic or Gem Dragon.

But when 5e came around, the Dragonborn gained 15 distinct looking subspecies that looked very much like anthropomorphic versions of the True Dragons. It's a bit of a stretch in 5e to mistake them now for Lizardfolk and Troglodytes.

Waterdeep, 1370 DR. This guy enters the Yawning Portal tavern.

Sage: That is a lizardfolk, my friends!

 

[Corinnguard]

Waterdeep, 1370 DR. This guy enters the Yawning Portal tavern.

Sage: That is a lizardfolk, my friends!

Until it did something very un-lizardfolk-like.