D&D General How is Dungeons & Dragons Worlds & Realms: Adventures from Greyhawk to Faerûn and Beyond?

[Mercador]

So not Art & Arcana level of greatness..

 

[sevenbastard]

So not Art & Arcana level of greatness..

Diffrent styles. I'm glad I have both, but the choice to do narrative in charachter text versus more academic real world history of the diffrent worlds hurts it because it's this

Who comes across as a 13 year old trying to combine Gandalf with Richard Dawkins, but more preachy

 

[Alzrius]

And no Dark Sun, boooo.

That's rather odd. I was under the impression that the book would cover all of the classic campaign settings, or at least those that were prominent enough to get their own world logo back in the day.

To anyone who has it, what campaign settings are present in this book?

 

[Parmandur]

Diffrent styles. I'm glad I have both, but the choice to do narrative in charachter text versus more academic real world history of the diffrent worlds hurts it because it's this

To be fair, they didn't have room to do that properly: the Forgotten Realms product history is a whole art book by itself (that I would buy, to be fair).

 

[sevenbastard]

To anyone who has it, what campaign settings are present in this book?

 

[npick03]

As a Known World (and Greyhawk and Eberron) fan, I was actually really looking forward to this.
I saw it at Barnes & Noble, cracked it open, and...are there really no maps? Those are the funnest part of a setting!

Bewildering and disappointing. I put it back on the shelf and got some Dungeon Meshi instead.

 

[Werthead]

The contents page always amused me as there is no rhyme or reason to the nomenclature:

1. Campaign Setting Name.
2. World Name.
3. Campaign Setting Name.
4. Name of one of the continents in the setting.
5. World and Campaign Setting Name.

And Dark Sun is something they're not even going to mention because they don't have a clue as to how to handle the darker side of the setting. The fact they destroyed it in Nu-Spelljammer and then wimped out on that in the final edit (replacing it with the generic "Doomspace") out of fear of fan blowback shows that.

 

[Alzrius]

I'm assuming that Ravenloft is touched upon in that Shadowfell section?

 

[Stormonu]

Of the three books, it is the weakest, in my opinion.

I was expecting something that was at least a travelogue, taking you to various locations across the map. Instead, it talks more about the individuals in each world, rather than about places. For example, while it mentions the Tomb of Horrors in the Greyhawk section, it focuses on Acerak, not the tomb.

Overall, it's light on details of what makes each world. The art does some nice sifting through the editions, but it not even a primer level of detail about the various worlds - the 2024 DMG's coverage of Greyhawk is way more in-depth than this book.

 

[Stormonu]

I'm assuming that Ravenloft is touched upon in that Shadowfell section?

The Shadowfell section ought to be named Ravenloft. It doesn't cover anything but some wispy hints at the Dark Powers and Mordenkainen's confrontation with Strahd.

Similarly, the Feywild section might ought well be called "Wild Beyond the Witchlight", as the characters of that adventure is pretty much all it covers.