D&D 5E Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide

[Parmandur]

So basically, Greyhawk and Waterdeep are like characters of the same class, but Greyhawk is Tier 2 and Waterdeep is Tier 4.

Honest to Pete, just now looking for pictures online like, and reverse image searching the Free City of Greyhawk literally came up with maps of Waterdeep.

Anyways, for comparison, the 1980s official 1E AD&D TSR maps for Waterdeep, Greyhawk, and Lankhmar in no particular order:

 

[GarrettKP]

Could be from a press kit, most likely. Thst StarterSet image looks like a legitimate new depiction of tge recognizable Keep on the Borderlands, at least.

I don’t think this is legit. It doesn’t fit most of the art style from known cover artists that WotC works with, and outside of the Borderlands art the rest is terribly generic.

I think they just either commissioned their own art or used art they found elsewhere.

 

[Parmandur]

I don’t think this is legit. It doesn’t fit most of the art style from known cover artists that WotC works with, and outside of the Borderlands art the rest is terribly generic.

I think they just either commissioned their own art or used art they found elsewhere.

Taking another look, I would suspect AI stuff, unfortunately.

 

[Yaarel]

Really, pretty gorgeous for AI art. Is everyone just assuming AI everywhere now when an artist is unknown, or does the art have tells.

So far, AI art still has tells. ... But it is getting more common for people to accuse a handdrawn art, or a photographed image, of being AI if there is any suggestion of a tell.

 

[mamba]

Really, pretty gorgeous for AI art. Is everyone just assuming AI everywhere now when an artist is unknown, or does the art have tells.

to me it’s more the tells (style rather than errors), like the cave the dragon is in looks like dozens of cave images I got from AI

 

[Zaukrie]

Here's hoping the malaugrym find a place in the bestiary of this book!

Yes

 

[pukunui]

Really, pretty gorgeous for AI art. Is everyone just assuming AI everywhere now when an artist is unknown, or does the art have tells.

Yeah, there are still tells. That tiefling art at the top of the page has DALL-E all over it.

Dragon Anthology: Firstly, that’s not what the 2024 green dragon looks like. Secondly, it has a different number of claws on each of its hands/front feet.

Starter Set: This piece screams AI-generated from the look of the castle to the framing of the piece to the random spiky bits in the foreground.

FRPG: Look closely at the eyes and at the detailing on the edge of the hood and at the leather straps on the hand.

FRCG: This one is the hardest to spot. Look at the spike by the g in “coming”. It’s popping up out of the air rather than the giant’s shoulder. Look at what the puny human is holding – do those look like anything other than randomly generated sticks to you? Also, that’s not what a D&D 5e frost giant looks like. Yeah sure maybe it’s a frost titan or something.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Here's hoping the malaugrym find a place in the bestiary of this book!

And the phaerimm and the sharn.

 

[Garmel]

Has there been a confirmed page count on this book yet?

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Has there been a confirmed page count on this book yet?

Nope, nothing since the video and D&D Beyond Article, I don't expect any more info till at least the Summer.

They still have the MM, Starter Set, and Dragon Anthology first & the two FR books aren't supposed to come out till late Q4.