Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide: The First Official D&D 5E Setting

Yes, it is new, I was just creating a thread for it myself.

 

[Uder]

Nope. This was our project from the ground up.

"Outsourced"

 

[orangefruitbat]

There's a simple answer to why Purple Knights are included:

"All hail the glory of Imperial Cormyr and its august Emperor, Azoun IX, the Great and Terrible Scourge of the West!"

Who's to say that borders and nations don't change...

 

[Mirtek]

There's a simple answer to why Purple Knights are included:

"All hail the glory of Imperial Cormyr and its august Emperor, Azoun IX, the Great and Terrible Scourge of the West!"

Who's to say that borders and nations don't change...

Actually Cormyr is one of the players where we have most current info thanks to the novels. They're just glad to have kept their existing borders during their last war a very short while ago

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Not that much. They managed to expand a little into Sembia (mostly thanks to Sembian cities welcoming them as liberators from Shade Enclave), but after some more wars with Sembia/Netheril they were forced to abandon most gains, leaving the cities as sort of demilitarized zone between them an Sembia. The latest war during the Sundering saw a large scale invasion by Sembia/Netheril deep into Cormyr that they were barely able to turn back

Actually Cormyr is one of the players where we have most current info thanks to the novels. They're just glad to have kept their existing borders during their last war a very short while ago

Well the thing is that is has been a few years since the last events involving Cormyr in the novels. Added on Cormyr's major rival Netheril kind of exploded.

 

[Shasarak]

Then people in those other threads never played AD&D 1e.

This book, by the way, is coming out less than a year from the final core book being released.

Even ADnD was not this sparse.

 

[The Hitcher]

Even ADnD was not this sparse.

Are you joking? The core books were released a year apart.

 

[Shasarak]

Are you joking? The core books were released a year apart.

Remember when we used to have a Dragon magazine every month?

Ah, those young and innocent days of constant monthly support.

 

[JeffB]

So can we get a list of authors?

 

[Mirtek]

Well the thing is that is has been a few years since the last events involving Cormyr in the novels. Added on Cormyr's major rival Netheril kind of exploded.

But they exploded while in the middle of giving Cormyr a good beating, their crash was what saved Cormyr. Cormyr's country side was pillaged, one major city taken and re-taken, it's armies heavily decimated, Cormyr is in no shape to conquer hundreds of miles westward in just a few years

 

[MonsterEnvy]

They're from Cormyr. Another region. A continental one.

If this is the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide, why does it have the Purple Dragon Knight? Cormyr is not in the Sword Coast.

But they exploded while in the middle of giving Cormyr a good beating, their crash was what saved Cormyr. Cormyr's country side was pillaged, one major city taken and re-taken, it's armies heavily decimated, Cormyr is in no shape to conquer hundreds of miles westward in just a few years

They need like 20 miles to show up on a sword coast map. As they are right next to the Well of Dragons. No one owns the Land there so they could expand a bit. With Netheril gone.