D&D (2024) Forgotten Realms Player Guide

[Henadic Theologian]

But it is true, though: the very example of Wemic which you brought up illustrates that: there is some extra lore in FR stuff for them, but they can be used anywhere. Same with any NPCs or locations.

That is true of almost any creature in D&D, they took Darksun/Spelljammer Thrikreen and stuck them in FR and gave them their own lore. Few creatures in any setting can only be used in that setting.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I really hope the Brotherhood of the Griffin is one of the playable factions.

 

[Demetrios1453]

That is true of almost any creature in D&D, they took Darksun/Spelljammer Thrikreen and stuck them in FR and gave them their own lore. Few creatures in any setting can only be used in that setting.

Thri-kreen in the Realms predate Dark Sun and Spelljammer - they first appeared in FR in the 1e adventure Ruins of Adventure in 1988.

 

[Parmandur]

Thri-kreen in the Realms predate Dark Sun and Spelljammer - they first appeared in FR in the 1e adventure Ruins of Adventure in 1988.

But they were generic first!

 

[Demetrios1453]

But they were generic first!

Yes they were. I was just pointing out that they weren't imported from Dark Sun and Spelljammer. If they were imported from anywhere, it would be Greyhawk I guess.

 

[bedir than]

Give me wemics, hybsils, MORE TAUROIDS

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Yes they were. I was just pointing out that they weren't imported from Dark Sun and Spelljammer. If they were imported from anywhere, it would be Greyhawk I guess.

The monster cards were probably set in Greyhawk, if they were set anywhere, since that was the baseline assumption of 1E monster books. (Sorry about the valley elves and grugach in MM2, everyone.)

 

[TravDoc42]

It'd be neat for the malaugrym to return! They're really neat, and FR specific!

 

[see]

Yeah, thri-kreen have much the same early publication history as wemics -- invented for the 1982 Monster Cards, then included in the 1983 Monster Manual II, then updated for AD&D 2e in 1989's Monstrous Compendium Volume Three Forgotten Realms Appendix, and collected in the 1993 Monstrous Manual when TSR finally gave up on the loose-sheets-in-binders format (I thought it was a good idea too, when the first Monstrous Compendium came out, but . . .).

 

[teitan]

That is true of almost any creature in D&D, they took Darksun/Spelljammer Thrikreen and stuck them in FR and gave them their own lore. Few creatures in any setting can only be used in that setting.

Thri-Kreen were in FR before Dark Sun ever existed. They're a first edition critter. I don't even recall them being a thing in Spelljammer and I loved old school Spelljammer.