Kobold Avenger
Legend
If the first one is the Bladesinger, they look more like a Monk to me than a Wizard.
D&D 5E (2024) Next issue of Game Informer will have details on the two upcoming Forgotten Realms books
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Kurotowa
Legend
That's just the shaved head. Everything else is pure Bladesinger. Sword, spellbook, and spell VFX? Check. Action robes that are definitely not armor but wouldn't trip you up while fencing like the traditional Wizard gown? Check. Elf for that classic Bladesinger lore nod? Check.
Forgotten Realms GenCon notes
Heroes of Fearun
Subclasses:
College of Moon
Knowledge Domain
Banneret
Oath of the Noble Genies
Winter Walker
Scion of the Three
Spellfire Sorcery
Bladesinger
Backgrounds:
Purple Dragon Squire - Purple Dragon Rook
Genie-Touched - Magic Initiate Wizard
Shadowmasters Exile - Savage Attacker
Ice Fisher - Tough
Harper - Musical Instrument proficiency, Thieves Can’t, and can help from a range.
Moonwell Pilgrim - Magic Initiate Druid
Spellfire Initiate - Spellfire Spark
Feats:
Spellfire Spark
Purple Dragon Rook
Epic Boon feats for playing as a chosen of the gods!
Circle Magic:
Circle Casting can cause AOE spells to carve out spaces of safety in the area, like with Fireball, or share your concentration so as long as one person keeps concentration the spell stays up.
Meta Magic and other subclass features that alter spells can be combined with Circle Casting.
New Spells:
Some new spells have “Cast as a Circle Spell” clause. Similar to upcasting.
Doomtide can be Circle cast to make it permanent rather than a duration.
Factions:
Harpers
Lords Alliance
Emerald Enclave
ZEntarim
Order of the Gauntlet
Purple Dragon Knights
Red Wizards
Cult of the Dragon
Earning renown for a faction can give you access to items and discounts, and other things.
Deities:
42 deities getting details in the books.
Equipment: Aurora’s Whole Realms Catalog
Adventures in Fearun
Each mini setting gets panoramic art pieces. Each are 30-40 pages with adventures and renown.
Chapters 2-6 are the mini-settings. Chapter 7 is The Lost Library of Lethchauntos adventure (levels 1 and 2).
Icewind Dale - Survival Horror
Baldurs Gate - Urban Adventure
Moonshae Isles - Fey Folktales
Fighting an ancient curse that threatens the area.
Calimshan - Magic-tech vs the Elements
Magic-tech setting where a technologically advanced city clashes against the Genie-ruled desert around it. Clockwork
Dalelands - Classic Heroic Fantasy
Bestiary:
Spirit Dragons
Manshoon
Sammaster
Drow of Lolth NPCs
Magic Items:
Harper’s Pin
New trailer.
Ultimate Bundle includes BG3 map pack for Beyond Maps VTT. Plus a HUGE Fearun map coming with the digital product.
Astarion’s Book of Hungers - Oct. 21
Includes an updated Dhampire race.
Nethril’s Fall - Nov. 4
Adventure with new monsters, magic items, and time travel.
Heroes of Fearun
Subclasses:
College of Moon
Knowledge Domain
Banneret
Oath of the Noble Genies
Winter Walker
Scion of the Three
Spellfire Sorcery
Bladesinger
Backgrounds:
Purple Dragon Squire - Purple Dragon Rook
Genie-Touched - Magic Initiate Wizard
Shadowmasters Exile - Savage Attacker
Ice Fisher - Tough
Harper - Musical Instrument proficiency, Thieves Can’t, and can help from a range.
Moonwell Pilgrim - Magic Initiate Druid
Spellfire Initiate - Spellfire Spark
Feats:
Spellfire Spark
Purple Dragon Rook
Epic Boon feats for playing as a chosen of the gods!
Circle Magic:
Circle Casting can cause AOE spells to carve out spaces of safety in the area, like with Fireball, or share your concentration so as long as one person keeps concentration the spell stays up.
Meta Magic and other subclass features that alter spells can be combined with Circle Casting.
New Spells:
Some new spells have “Cast as a Circle Spell” clause. Similar to upcasting.
Doomtide can be Circle cast to make it permanent rather than a duration.
Factions:
Harpers
Lords Alliance
Emerald Enclave
ZEntarim
Order of the Gauntlet
Purple Dragon Knights
Red Wizards
Cult of the Dragon
Earning renown for a faction can give you access to items and discounts, and other things.
Deities:
42 deities getting details in the books.
Equipment: Aurora’s Whole Realms Catalog
Adventures in Fearun
Each mini setting gets panoramic art pieces. Each are 30-40 pages with adventures and renown.
Chapters 2-6 are the mini-settings. Chapter 7 is The Lost Library of Lethchauntos adventure (levels 1 and 2).
Icewind Dale - Survival Horror
Baldurs Gate - Urban Adventure
Moonshae Isles - Fey Folktales
Fighting an ancient curse that threatens the area.
Calimshan - Magic-tech vs the Elements
Magic-tech setting where a technologically advanced city clashes against the Genie-ruled desert around it. Clockwork
Dalelands - Classic Heroic Fantasy
Bestiary:
Spirit Dragons
Manshoon
Sammaster
Drow of Lolth NPCs
Magic Items:
Harper’s Pin
New trailer.
Ultimate Bundle includes BG3 map pack for Beyond Maps VTT. Plus a HUGE Fearun map coming with the digital product.
Astarion’s Book of Hungers - Oct. 21
Includes an updated Dhampire race.
Nethril’s Fall - Nov. 4
Adventure with new monsters, magic items, and time travel.
Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
At long last, the Century of the Fruit Bat.
Misanthrope Prime
Hero
So to clarify Purple Dragon Rook and Spellfire Spark are the only new origin feats? Do we know what the text of the spark feat is?
