D&D 5E (2024) Next issue of Game Informer will have details on the two upcoming Forgotten Realms books


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Seated and ready for the FR books panel.

Will take notes and post them after.

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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.
 




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