D&D General More Details Revealed for Forgotten Realms Digital Expansions

Pre-orders are live for the upcoming Forgotten Realms books, with one D&D Beyond listing providing some new details about digital DLC released alongside the books. Posted today on D&D Beyond, the "Forgotten Realms Ultimate Bundle" will include three digital expansions - Astarion's Book of Hungers, Netheril's Fall, and a third "secret" expansion to be named later. The digital expansions will be gradually released over a three week period. Astarion's Book of Hungers will include new player options, while Netheril's Fall will be an adventure book of some kind. Page count is not available, but currently the only way to get these three digital expansions will be through buying the "Ultimate Bundle," which has a whopping price point of $159.99 and includes both physical and digital versions of the other Forgotten Realms books.

What (little) information we know was provided by D&D Beyond and can be seen below:

• Astarion’s Book of Hungers: a digital expansion where players can indulge in their vampire desires with new player options, monsters, and adventure content – all shared by Astarion himself! | Release Date: November 11, 2025
• Netheril’s Fall: a digital expansion where players can explore the lost Netherese Empire in a time traveling adventure | Release Date: November 18, 2025
• A secret third digital expansion – to be revealed soon! | Release Date: November 25, 2025

 

[Marandahir]

The DLCs come in the Digital Bundle iirc.

I sure hope they do -- can't buy the digital bundle anymore, and my order doesn't say digital bundle anymore, it just says each of those books separately (even though I bought them as the digital bundle).

 

[TravDoc42]

I hope the Sharn get a stat block or two in Netheril's Fall, but given my track record for guessing what'll be in what book (I was sure there'd be saurials in the FR books, for example), I wouldn't hold my breath.

It would make sense for the phaerimm to have the beings that imprisoned them given, but who knows?

 

[Marandahir]

I hope the Sharn get a stat block or two in Netheril's Fall, but given my track record for guessing what'll be in what book (I was sure there'd be saurials in the FR books, for example), I wouldn't hold my breath.

It would make sense for the phaerimm to have the beings that imprisoned them given, but who knows?

The Phaerimm are in the two physical books in reference to the Anauroch and referred to as the cause of the downfall of this area via their anti-magic fields in the ancient past, so I would expect them to also be involved in this adventure location digital expansion.

I'm sad that Shadar-Kai and/or Shade are not featured here as a playable species (they were both connected to Netheril and the Shadovar in 4E), but I understand a bit since Shade was not previously adapted into 5E and while Shadar-Kai worked as a type of Netherese human transformed by the Shadowfall in 4E, their return to being Shadow Fey in 5E a la their 3E incarnation makes their relationship to Netheril a bit harder to justify in this edition.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

The Phaerimm are in the two physical books in reference to the Anauroch and referred to as the cause of the downfall of this area via their anti-magic fields in the ancient past, so I would expect them to also be involved in this adventure location digital expansion.

I'm sad that Shadar-Kai and/or Shade are not featured here as a playable species (they were both connected to Netheril and the Shadovar in 4E), but I understand a bit since Shade was not previously adapted into 5E and while Shadar-Kai worked as a type of Netherese human transformed by the Shadowfall in 4E, their return to being Shadow Fey in 5E a la their 3E incarnation makes their relationship to Netheril a bit harder to justify in this edition.

Rather conspicuously there is a Shadovar NPC in AiF, but she's been polymorphed into (IIRC) a blue dragon so they don't need to stat up a Shade.

 

[GarrettKP]

Rather conspicuously there is a Shadovar NPC in AiF, but she's been polymorphed into (IIRC) a blue dragon so they don't need to stat up a Shade.

That NPC is given the Mage stat block in that adventure for when/if she is unpolymorphed.

So effectively Shadovar NPCs just use Humanoid stat blocks.

 

[TravDoc42]

so I would expect them to also be involved in this adventure location digital expansion.

Here's hoping!! I love the sharn; enigmatic aberrations with inscrutable motives that aren't Inherently Evil? I love that stuff!! (Hence why I adore flumphs!!). I also love their aesthetic appearance.