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

[QuentinGeorge]

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.

The table of contents is bonkers, but Mystara is both the world name and the setting name (at least in 2nd edition). "Faerun" is the odd one out there.

 

[mamba]

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.

ouch, one more reason to skip it… I thought it would give an overview of each world and it’s major ‘sites’ (cities, adventure locations)

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It's definitely time to view Art & Arcana as the anomaly in these third party books and to stop expecting these to be particularly good.

 

[MichaelSomething]

It's definitely time to view Art & Arcana as the anomaly in these third party books and to stop expecting these to be particularly good books.

I bet Enworld would do this conceot much better!