D&D (2024) Forgotten Realms Player Guide

[TiQuinn]

And then you get DCC Lankhmar and they aren't very Lankhmarry, only Greyhawk is Lankhmarry.

How do you make a Lankhmar product that isn’t Lankhmarry? Like how do you mess that up?!

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I hope we get a bunch of faction NPC statblocks, since FR dont have a multitude of truly unique monsters but sure have a lot of humanoid bad guys.

• The agents/cultists of the the Dead Three in BGiA could be reprinted
• The Calimshan focus could give us more elemental soldier. The elemental cultist of PotA could make an appearance here.
• Statblocks for Hellrider, Spectral Harpist, Greycloak of Evereska, Many-Arrows emissary, Thayan knights, Shade infiltrator etc coulb be very nice.

- On an aside, I'd really like statblock from the old CRPGs pro/antagonists: Jaheira, Minsc, Arundel, Baliphet, Sarevok etc.

There are more unique FR monsters then you think, this gives just a few examples Fantasy Safari: Monsters of Faerûn.

And that does not include some of the newer stuff like Shardsouls from Vaasa or Wemics.

 

[Parmandur]

There are more unique FR monsters then you think, this gives just a few examples Fantasy Safari: Monsters of Faerûn.

And that does not include some of the newer stuff like Shardsouls from Vaasa or Wemics.

Yeah, easily enough for a Settijg book chapter's worth, similar to Eberron or more recently Planescape & Spelljammer.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

And then you get DCC Lankhmar and they aren't very Lankhmarry, only Greyhawk is Lankhmarry.

Pretty much every major fantasy city rips off Lankhmar.

Greyhawk is Lankhmar.

So are Waterdeep, Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter. Likewise the City State of the Invincible Overlord and Ptolus. And especially Ankh-Morpork.

I don't think any of the authors would suggest otherwise.

Lankhmar is a great template and insanely gamable.

 

[see]

And that does not include some of the newer stuff like Shardsouls from Vaasa or Wemics.

Hmm? Wemics were published in 1983's AD&D Monster Manual II (page 126).

They were kinda implicitly Realms-ized later on, with their first 2nd edition publication being in the Monstrous Compendium Volume Three Forgotten Realms Appendix, and their first 3.x publication in Monster Compendium: Monsters of Faerûn. But they didn't originate as Realms-specific, and at more than four decades old when D&D has just reached five decades, they aren't "newer stuff" except as you might similarly class duergar, modrons, or yuan ti (all also in the 1983 Monster Manual II).

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Hmm? Wemics were published in 1983's AD&D Monster Manual II (page 126).

They might have even appeared in the monster cards before that.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Pretty much every major fantasy city rips off Lankhmar.

Greyhawk is Lankhmar.

So are Waterdeep, Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter. Likewise the City State of the Invincible Overlord and Ptolus. And especially Ankh-Morpork.

I don't think any of the authors would suggest otherwise.

Lankhmar is a great template and insanely gamable.

I can’t believe you forgot Ankh-Morpork!

Edit: did you ninja edit or am I going blind?

 

[Parmandur]

Hmm? Wemics were published in 1983's AD&D Monster Manual II (page 126).

They were kinda implicitly Realms-ized later on, with their first 2nd edition publication being in the Monstrous Compendium Volume Three Forgotten Realms Appendix, and their first 3.x publication in Monster Compendium: Monsters of Faerûn. But they didn't originate as Realms-specific, and at more than four decades old when D&D has just reached five decades, they aren't "newer stuff" except as you might similarly class duergar, modrons, or yuan ti (all also in the 1983 Monster Manual II).

Wemics do have "a place" in Fareun, at least, in The Shaar. And they are a good candidate to see here in this DMs guide, probavly along with any 1E MM2 or Fiend Folio stragglers in addition to strongly Relmsian based stuff.

The Dracolisk that Dan Dillon wrote for QftIS, for instance, might make it here from the cutting room floor...

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I can’t believe you forgot Ankh-Morpork!

Edit: did you ninja edit or am I going blind?

You're going blind.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

I'm not a big Realms guy, but I remember wemics in 2e FR. I think they were followers of Aslan Nobanion.