Starting small in the Realms...

[MerricB]

Dark perils and great deeds await!

Welcome to Faerûn, a land of amazing magic, terrifying monsters, ancient ruins, and hidden wonders. The world has changed since the Spellplague, and from this arcane crucible have emerged shining kingdoms, tyrannical empires, mighty heroes, and monster-infested dungeons. The Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide presents a world of untold adventure, a land of a thousand stories shaped by the deeds of adventurers the likes of which Faerûn has never seen before.

This product includes everything a Dungeon Master needs to run a D&D campaign in the Forgotten Realms setting, as well as elements that DMs can incorporate into their own D&D campaigns. The book provides background information on the lands of Faerûn, a fully detailed town in which to start a campaign, adventure seeds, new monsters, ready-to-play nonplayer characters, and a full-color poster map of Faerûn.
-- from the advertising text for the new Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide

Any guess as to the identity of the fully detailed town?

How much space will it take up in the book?

Cheers!

 

[Merlin the Tuna]

The Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide presents a world of untold adventure, a land of a thousand stories shaped by the deeds of adventurers the likes of which Faerûn has never seen before.

Okay, this line confuses me. Faerun was shaped by adventurers it has never seen? Were they all just really sneaky about it? Maybe the Spellplague was just a regular plague transmitted by all the invisible adventurers running around.

 

[BlackMoria]

Given that the Spellplague actually makes geographical changes and was not a 'flash in the pan' disaster but one that endured for years and the resultant pressures on populations and economies, I would wager that it will be a previously undetailed town in some hot spot where civilization was slow to recover and adventure and danger lurks ever close at hand.

 

[Voss]

Depending on where they want to focus, geographically

1-Shadowdale.
2- Eveningstar
3- some village near Silverymoon

 

[The Ubbergeek]

Phlan?

It was quite a Points of Light place...

Battered city, a shadow of a forumer self, infested and assiegated by ennemies... And not very detailed in any recent books.

 

[The Little Raven]

Okay, this line confuses me. Faerun was shaped by adventurers it has never seen? Were they all just really sneaky about it?

The key point is the phrase "the likes of which." It means that Faerun has never seen adventurers of this caliber before, suggesting that maybe it wants to make your PCs the movers and shakers.

 

[Doug McCrae]

Okay, this line confuses me. Faerun was shaped by adventurers it has never seen?

Tiefling warlords. Dragonborn CE paladins. Wizards who can keep going all day long. And so forth.

 

[Mighty Veil]

Tiefling warlords. Dragonborn CE paladins. Wizards who can keep going all day long. And so forth.

I dunno. Could be gnome bards. They got so powerful; the whole Realms world had to unite and destroy them all... "in a spell plague"

 

[Sonny]

Phlan?

It was quite a Points of Light place...

Battered city, a shadow of a forumer self, infested and assiegated by ennemies... And not very detailed in any recent books.

Funny you should mention Phlan. One of the most unexpected sidebars from The Grand History of the Realms was about Phlan. Pretty good for a town that got almost no coverage in 3rd edition. Of course, the guy who wrote GHOTR (Brian R. James) seems to like the place quite a bit, and since he's also doing some 4th edition FR stuff, we may see more of the town again.

Also, maybe that's why they never released the Web Enhancement for Mysteries of the Moonsea detailing Phlan, they found a better use for the town.

 

[Sonny]

I dunno. Could be gnome bards. They got so powerful; the whole Realms world had to unite and destroy them all... "in a spell plague"

Powerful annoying maybe, if Grobnar from Neverwinter Nights 2 is anything to go by. I know I wanted to exterminate him more than once.