Who created the Forgotten Realms campaign?
Seven Sisters (Forgotten Realms)
The Seven Sisters—fictional characters of the "Forgotten Realms" campaign setting of the "Dungeons & Dragons" Role Playing Game. The sisters are epic level characters (characters possessing nearly super-human levels of skill and power) of differing abilities, most of which involve some form of spellcasting and use of magic. Created by Ed Greenwood, they have been featured in multiple novels, games, and officially created scenarios by an equally large number of authors/game-designers.
Empires of the Sands
Empires of the Sands is an accessory for the fictional Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the first edition of the "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game. The book was published in 1988 and written by Scott Haring, with cover and interior art by Jeff Easley.
Oghma (Forgotten Realms)
Oghma later officially appeared as one of the major deities for the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, in the "Forgotten Realms Campaign Set"s "Cyclopedia of the Realms" booklet (1987).
Oghma (Forgotten Realms)
Oghma appears as one of the major deities of the Forgotten Realms setting again, in "Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting" (2001), and is further detailed in "Faiths and Pantheons" (2002).
Oghma appears as one of the major deities (or "Greater Gods") of the Forgotten Realms setting again, in "Forgotten Realms Player's Guide" (2008), and is further detailed in "Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting" (2008). He plays largely the same role in the setting as in previous editions, and is still associated, for the most part, with the same gods. His alignment under the new system is Unaligned.
The Forgotten Realms Atlas
The Forgotten Realms Atlas was a book produced by Karen Wynn Fonstad and provided detailed maps of the Forgotten Realms, a fictional setting in the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game.
Kossuth (Dungeons &amp; Dragons)
Kossuth was described in the hardback "Forgotten Realms Adventures" (1990), the revised "Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting" (1993) in the "Running the Realms" booklet, and "Faiths & Avatars" (1996).
War of the Spider Queen
War of the Spider Queen is a fantasy series of novels set in the "Forgotten Realms" universe published by Wizards of the Coast. The series contains six books focused on the drow and their principal deity Lolth. Each of the six novels in the series is written by a different author with veteran Forgotten Realms author R. A. Salvatore overseeing the project. Cover art for each book in the series was designed by Gerald Brom who has done other Forgotten Realms work including reprints of The Avatar Series.
Torm (Forgotten Realms)
Torm is a fictional deity in the "Forgotten Realms" campaign setting of the "Dungeons & Dragons" role-playing game, who, along with Tyr and Ilmater, is part of the House of the Triad pantheon.
Dungeons &amp; Dragons campaign settings
A continent west of Faerûn (in the "Forgotten Realms") that parallels Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.
Hall of Heroes (Forgotten Realms)
Hall of Heroes is an accessory for the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the second edition of the "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game. The 128-page book, with product code TSR 9252, was published in 1989, with cover art by Jeff Easley and interior art by Ned Dameron.
The Ride (Forgotten Realms)
The Ride is a fictional region in North Faerûn, of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game.
The Forgotten People
"The Forgotten People" is a famous 1942 speech and campaign slogan by Robert Menzies, an Australian politician who was repeatedly chosen as Prime Minister of Australia by emphasising his links to ordinary non-elite citizens.
List of Forgotten Realms cities
Ravens Bluff was for many years home to the RPGA's Living City role-playing campaign—a part of their Living campaign—and the site of the Living City series of game modules. The campaign was first proposed by then-RPGA Coordinator Penny Petticord in "Polyhedron" magazine issue #25 and ended in 2004.
Forgotten Realms (comics)
In 1989, DC Comics began publishing the "Forgotten Realms" comic series, written by Jeff Grubb. Each issue contained twenty-six pages, illustrated primarily by Rags Morales and Dave Simons. The 19 issues produced by Morales were his first professional works. Tom Raney illustrated issues #17 and #20. Elliot S. Maggin served as an editor for DC from 1989 to 1991 and oversaw the licensed TSR titles, including "Forgotten Realms". Twenty-five issues were published in total, with the last being released in 1991. Kim Yale served as an editor for DC from 1991–1993 and oversaw their licensed titles. Grubb wrote all 25 issues. A fifty-six page annual "Forgotten Realms Comic Annual #1: Waterdhavian Nights", illustrated by various artists, was released in 1990, illustrated by Tom Raney.Labelas is Vartan's deity. During the Time of Troubles he uses Vartan as a host body. He attempts to use the Realm Master and the crew to defeat the god Helm and restore his divinity.
Jeff Grubb uses various references to the world of "Forgotten Realms", using known characters like Elminster. He uses as Labelas Enoreth one of elven pantheon of gods described in the "Forgotten Realms" world as Vartan's patron. He sets one of his story arcs, "An Avatar Story", during the Time of Troubles.
The Year of Rogue Dragons
The Year of Rogue Dragons is a series of novels set in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting.
Bruce Cordell
Cordell co-designed the 4th Edition "Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide" and "Gamma World" Seventh Edition.
Geographical index of Toril
Faerûn is a fictional continent in the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting world of Forgotten Realms.
Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide
The "Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide" was written by Philip Athans, Bruce R. Cordell, Ed Greenwood, and Chris Sims, and published in 2008. The book features art by Drew Baker, Leon Cortez, Eric Deschamps, Steve Ellis, Randy Gallegos, Adam Gillespie, Michael Komarck, Robert Lazzaretti, Ron Lemen, Lee Moyer, William O'Connor, Mike Schley, Keven Smith, Emi Tanji, Mark Tedin, Francis Tsai, Matt Wilson, Sam Wood, Ben Wootten, Kieran Yanner, and James Zhang.
List of Forgotten Realms characters
According to the campaign settings book "Silver Marches" after Blingdenstone's destruction, he led some survivors to Mithral Hall.
Forgotten Heroes
In their original adventures prior to the "Crisis on Infinite Earths", the Forgotten Heroes are all superheroes who, at one point in their career, had discovered a mysterious golden pyramid. When they attempt to report the discovery, they find themselves censored by the US Government. The members of the team are brought together by Immortal Man, who reveals to them that the pyramids are the work of his eons-old foe, Vandal Savage. With the aid of Superman, the Forgotten Heroes destroy the golden pyramids and save the Earth.
Volothamp Geddarm
Volothamp Geddarm —"Volo" for short—is one of the two most lasting fictional characters created by Ed Greenwood for the "Forgotten Realms" campaign setting for the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game, along with Elminster.
Abeir-Toril
Abeir-Toril is the fictional planet that makes up the "Forgotten Realms" "Dungeons & Dragons" campaign setting, as well as the Al-Qadim and Maztica campaign settings and the 1st edition version of the Oriental Adventures campaign setting.
Lathander
Lathander later officially appeared as one of the major deities for the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, in the "Forgotten Realms Campaign Set"s "Cyclopedia of the Realms" booklet (1987).
Jeff Grubb
Grubb was a consultant on the first edition of "Unearthed Arcana", and authored the first edition of the "Manual of the Planes". Grubb contacted Ed Greenwood, author of numerous articles in "Dragon" about his home campaign setting, and soon Greenwood began sending Grubb packages full of maps and background information; this collaboration resulted in the publication of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting beginning with the "Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting" (1987). He is the designer of the "Spelljammer" campaign setting, and the Al-Qadim setting. Grubb felt that Al-Qadim was well received because the designers had managed to hide the setting's potential from TSR's executives.
Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting
To usher in the new edition of "Dungeons & Dragons", major events occur in the world. The most notable of these include the death of the goddess Mystra and her Weave, and the subsequent Spellplague, a phenomenon which occurs with the decomposition of the Weave and either kills spellcasters or drives them mad. This Spellplague causes calamitous events in the environment and the natural world, such as animation of giant statues, violent earthquakes, corruption of various beings into monsters, and the collapse of some regions of the Underdark. Popular characters such as Elminster and Drizzt Do'Urden are stated to be included. An additional campaign setting book, covering the city of Neverwinter and its environs was released in 2011, while an overview of the history, both fictional and real-world, of the Realms was published as "Ed Greenwood Presents Elminster's Forgotten Realms" in 2012, written by Realms creator Ed Greenwood.
List of Forgotten Realms novels
By Lisa SmedmanThis series contains a trilogy of novels written by Richard Baker, as well as an anthology of short stories written by various authors.The three volume trilogy by Richard Baker was later reprinted in two formats:
Menzoberranzan
Menzoberranzan, the City of Spiders, is a fictional city-state in the world of the "Forgotten Realms", a "Dungeons & Dragons" campaign setting. It is located in the Upper Northdark, about two miles below the Surbrin Vale, between the Moonwood and the Frost Hills (north of the Evermoors and under the River Surbin). It is famed as the birthplace of Drizzt Do'Urden, the protagonist of several series of best-selling novels by noted fantasy author R. A. Salvatore.
Fantasy world
"Dungeons & Dragons", the first major role-playing game, has created several detailed and commercially successful fantasy worlds (called "campaign settings"), with established characters, locations, histories, and sociologies. The Forgotten Realms is perhaps the most extensively developed of these worlds. These elements of detail can be a large part of what attracts people to RPGs.
Rob Heinsoo
Heinsoo joined Wizards of the Coast (WotC) as a member of the "D&D Worlds" team, with his main focus being the third-edition version of "Forgotten Realms". With WotC, Heinsoo was involved with a number of "Dungeons & Dragons" game products. Other Forgotten Realms works include the sourcebook "Monsters of Faerûn". He also helped write the third edition "Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting", which reached the top 50 of the non-fiction bestsellers in Canada in 2002 and won an Origins Award for best roleplaying supplement of 2001. He is the designer of "Three-Dragon Ante", a card game.
Horde Campaign
"Horde Campaign" describes the Horde's assault on the Forgotten Realms, tracking the war battle-by-battle, and providing "Battlesystem" stats for the battles.
Alias (Forgotten Realms)
Alias is a fictional character in the "Forgotten Realms" campaign setting for the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game. Alias is the main character of "Azure Bonds". She also appeared in the computer game, Curse of the Azure Bonds which was based on the book. Alias later appears in the sequel "Song of the Saurials", and the standalone book "Masquerades".
Forgotten Realms
The original gray boxed set received a revision in 1993 to update it to the second edition "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D)" rules system, with the release of a new "Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting" boxed set, containing three books ("A Grand Tour of the Realms", "Running the Realms", and "Shadowdale") and various "monster supplements", with a new graphic look. Additional material for the setting was released steadily throughout the 1990s. Forgotten Realms novels, such as the "Legacy of the Drow" series, the first three books of "The Elminster Series", and numerous anthologies were also released throughout the 1990s, which led to the setting being hailed as one of the most successful shared fantasy universes of the 1990s. These novels in turn sparked interest in role-playing activity by new gamers.
Dungeons &amp; Dragons campaign settings
The lands of the Forgotten Realms are not all ruled by the human race: the setting's planet, Abeir-Toril, is shared by humans, dwarves, elves, goblins, orcs, Dragons and other peoples and creatures. Technologically, the world resembles pre-industrial Earth of the 13th or 14th century. However, the strong presence of magic provides an additional element of power to the societies.
Player's Guide to the Forgotten Realms Campaign
"Player's Guide to the Forgotten Realms Campaign" is an "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" game supplement published as a 132-page softcover book by TSR, Inc. Design is by Anthony Herring with additional material by Jeff Grubb, Karen Boomgarden, Julia Martin, Steven Schend, J. Robert King, and Tim Beach, and editing by Jonatha Ariadne Caspian. Illustrations are by Valerie Valusek with a cover by Larry Elmore.
List of Forgotten Realms novels
By Troy DenningThis series contains a trilogy of novels written by Paul S. Kemp, as well as an anthology of short stories written by various authors.By Jaleigh JohnsonBy Richard Lee Byers, Thomas M. Reid, Richard Baker, Lisa Smedman, Philip Athans, and Paul S. Kemp. Supervising editor, R. A. Salvatore.War of the Spider Queen was later reprinted in:
List of Forgotten Realms deities
The deities of other "Dungeons & Dragons" campaign settings, including those of the default (or "core") setting for the "Dungeons & Dragons" game, are not generally a part of Forgotten Realms. However, there is some overlap, especially among the deities of nonhuman races. Lolth, the principal deity of the drow in the Forgotten Realms, is specifically described as being the same deity as Lolth in other campaign settings. No mention is made as to whether other deities shared between Forgotten Realms and other campaign settings are intended to represent the same divine entity.
Nightmare Keep
Nightmare Keep () is an adventure module for the fictional Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the second edition of the "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game.
Dungeons &amp; Dragons campaign settings
The Forgotten Realms is a high fantasy world - magic is powerful, legendary monsters are commonplace, and gods often intervene directly in mortal affairs. Players can indulge in several types of fantasy adventures - from straightforward hack-and-slash treasure hunting in dungeons to epic campaigns involving regional wars, cataclysms and direct contact with gods and extra-dimensional beings.
Ed Greenwood
In 1986, the American game publishing company TSR began looking for a new campaign setting for the "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" game, and assigned Jeff Grubb to find out more about the setting used by Greenwood in his articles for "Dragon" magazine. According to Greenwood, Grubb asked him "Do you just make this stuff up as you go, or do you really have a huge campaign world?"; he answered "yes" to both questions. TSR felt that the Forgotten Realms would be a more open-ended setting than the epic Dragonlance setting, and chose the Realms as a ready-made campaign for "AD&D" 2nd Edition.
Forgotten Futures
Forgotten Futures is a role-playing game created by Marcus Rowland to allow people to play in settings inspired by Victorian and Edwardian science fiction and fantasy (i.e., steampunk). Most of its releases begin with these stories then add background material to explain the settings (often as alternate worlds, whose history diverges from our own), adventures, and other game material.
List of Forgotten Realms characters
Ryld Argith is a fictional character in the "Forgotten Realms" campaign setting based on the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game. He appears in R.A. Salvatore's War of the Spider Queen Series, a six book series chronicling the war which besieges Menzoberranzan, and several drow cities as well as the search performed by a group of drow from Menzoberranzan to find out why Lolth is silent to her children.
Drizzt Do'Urden
Drizzt Do'Urden () is a fictional character in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game. Drizzt was created by author R. A. Salvatore as a supporting character in the "Icewind Dale Trilogy". Salvatore created him on a whim when his publisher needed him to replace one of the characters in an early version of the first book, "The Crystal Shard". Drizzt has since become a popular heroic character of the Forgotten Realms setting, and has been featured as the main character of a long series of books, starting chronologically with "The Dark Elf Trilogy". As an atypical drow (dark elf), Drizzt has forsaken both the evil ways of his people and their home in the Underdark, in the drow city of Menzoberranzan.
Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting
The Forgotten Realms continued to be a supported campaign setting in the 4th edition of "D&D". Wizards of the Coast released the "Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide" in August 2008, and the "Forgotten Realms Player's Guide" in September 2008.
Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting
A number of changes have been made since the previous books were published by the former TSR, Inc. The most important update has been the inclusion of the 3rd edition's significant revisions to the game system. Various regional feats, character attributes, prestige classes, spells and non-player character statistics use the new rule set.
Dragon (magazine)
"Dragon" was the launching point for a number of rules, spells, monsters, magic items, and other ideas that were incorporated into later official products of the "Dungeons & Dragons" game. A prime example is the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, which first became known through a series of "Dragon" articles in the 1980s by its creator Ed Greenwood. It subsequently went on to become one of the primary campaign 'worlds' for official "Dungeons and Dragons" products, starting in 1987. The magazine appeared on the cover as simply "Dragon" from July 1980, later changing its name to Dragon Magazine starting November 1987.
Elaith Craulnober
Elaith Craulnober is a fictional character in the Forgotten Realms fantasy campaign setting for the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game. Elaith is often used by author Elaine Cunningham and has appeared in many of her novels, namely, "Elfshadow", "Elfsong", "Silver Shadows", "Dream Spheres", and briefly as a very young child in "Evermeet: Island of Elves". He is often portrayed as a cunning and opportunistic elven rogue with an infamous reputation, although the Forgotten Realms campaign setting presents him as a fighter/wizard. The author uses him both as an antihero and a recurring villain, and is often referred as "The Serpent." Elaith has also made an appearance in Neverwinter Nights as a merchant who has taken up a calmer outlook on life.
Ed Greenwood
The campaign setting was a major success, and Greenwood continued to be involved with all subsequent incarnations of the Forgotten Realms in "D&D". He retained the rights to his fictional universe and went on to write numerous Forgotten Realms novels. Many of these center around the wizard Elminster, whom Greenwood has frequently portrayed at conventions and gaming events.
The Bloodstone Wars
While this is the third adventure in the Bloodstone pass saga it is the first publication that places The Barony of Bloodstone and surrounding kingdoms in the Forgotten Realms campaign. The module did not however bear the official Forgotten Realms logo.
Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas
The Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas was developed by ProFantasy Software, the creators of Campaign Cartographer for Wizards of the Coast, who publish the Forgotten Realms RPG setting. The developers created vector version of the published maps for the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting and included many new maps, including a globe of the entire Forgotten Realms world, Abeir-Toril. There have been three updates published for the application that deliver over 800 maps. The maps were hyperlinked within a customised viewer, or could be accessed via an interactive globe. The product was discontinued after selling through its entire print in its first year.
Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide
The Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide is a supplement to the 4th edition of the "Dungeons & Dragons" role-playing game.
Tabaxi
In the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, the name "Tabaxi" is used for a group of humans that are known to inhabit the Chultan Peninsula, and worship the deity Ubtao. It was they who defended the city of Mezro while Eshowdow was attacking it, eventually driving him back.
Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone
Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone is a video game that was released in 2004 for PlayStation 2, Xbox and Windows PC. It is set in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for "Dungeons & Dragons" (D&D), but the gameplay only vaguely models D&D's structure. The story was written by R.A. Salvatore and features the voices of Patrick Stewart as Khelben "Blackstaff" Arunsun and Michael Clarke Duncan as Ygorl.
List of Forgotten Realms cities
This is a list of fictional cities, towns, and villages from the "Forgotten Realms" setting. These locations have appeared in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the "Dungeons and Dragons" fantasy roleplaying game, the multiple series of novels set in the Forgotten Realms, or the numerous video and computer games set in the Forgotten Realms, or any combination thereof.
Dungeons &amp; Dragons campaign settings
A setting inspired by the Arabian Nights mythos, with genies, elemental wizards, holy assassins, and a land unified by belief in the power of Fate. The land, named Zakhara, is located near the southern border of the continent of Faerûn, the main landmass of the Realms. However, "Al-Qadim" appeared under its own label, and not the "Forgotten Realms" label, unlike Kara-Tur and Maztica. This campaign setting is no longer officially supported; however, it is now regarded part of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting as its setting is mentioned in some Forgotten Realms sourcebooks and novels.
Forgotten Realms
The focus of the Forgotten Realms setting is the continent of Faerûn, part of the fictional world of Abeir-Toril, usually called simply Toril, an Earth-like planet with many real-world influences. Unlike Earth, the lands of the Forgotten Realms are not all ruled by the human race: the planet Toril is shared by humans, dwarves, elves, goblins, orcs, and other peoples and creatures. Technologically, the world of the Forgotten Realms is not nearly as advanced as that of Earth; in this respect, it resembles the pre-industrial Earth of the 13th or 14th century. However, the presence of magic provides an additional element of power to the societies. There are several nation states and many independent cities, with loose alliances being formed for defense or conquest. Trade is performed by ship or horse-drawn vehicle, and manufacturing is based upon cottage industry.
Toril consists of several large continents, including Faerûn, the western part of a continent that was roughly modeled after the Eurasian continent on Earth. Faerûn was first detailed in the original "Forgotten Realms Campaign Set", published in 1987 by TSR. The other continents include Kara-Tur, Zakhara, Maztica, and other yet unspecified landmasses. Kara-Tur, roughly corresponding to ancient East Asia, was later the focus of its own source book "", published in 1988. There is also a vast subterranean world called the Underdark beneath the surface.
War of the Spider Queen
Richard Lee Byers (Dissolution): "Richard Lee Byers is one of the most thoughtful and insightful authors I've ever met. A perfect choice for plunging the world into sheer chaos." Byers previous work for Forgotten Realms was that of the Sembia Trilogy along with collaborators Athans and Smedman. He has since written "The Year of Rogue Dragons" Trilogy, and is currently writing The Haunted Lands Trilogy.
Forgotten Realms Adventures
"Forgotten Realms Adventures" is a revision of the "Forgotten Realms Sourcebook and Cyclopedia" material, taking into account the 2nd edition rules and the three years of Forgotten Realms products released up to that time. Among other things, this book cover the deities, secret societies, treasures, specific spells and magic rules of the campaign setting, as well as brief descriptions of the land and cities of the heartlands, with maps.
Elminster
Elminster Aumar, the Sage of Shadowdale, is a fictional character appearing in the "Forgotten Realms" campaign setting for the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game. He is a powerful wizard featured in several novels by "Forgotten Realms" creator Ed Greenwood. Certain aspects of his appearance and demeanor seem to echo Gandalf, Merlin, or Odin.
Undermountain
Undermountain was created by Ed Greenwood in 1975. It was the first dungeon for his fledgling Forgotten Realms campaign setting, and he used the Undermountain in both his "Dungeons & Dragons" and "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" games.
Forgotten Realms
Ed Greenwood began writing stories about the "Forgotten Realms" as a child, starting around 1967; they were his "dream space for swords and sorcery stories". Greenwood came up with the "Forgotten Realms" name from the notion of a multiverse of parallel worlds; Earth is one such world, and the Realms another. In Greenwood's original conception, the fantastic legends of Earth derive from a fantasy world, the way to which has been lost. Greenwood discovered the "Dungeons & Dragons" game in 1975, and became a serious role-playing enthusiast with the first "AD&D" game releases in 1978. The setting became the home of Greenwood's personal campaign. Greenwood began a Realms campaign in the city of Waterdeep, then started another group known as the Knights of Myth Drannor in Shadowdale. Greenwood felt that his players' thirst for detail made the Realms what it is: "They want it to seem real, and work on ‘honest jobs’ and personal activities, until the whole thing grows into far more than a casual campaign. Roleplaying always governs over rules, and the adventures seem to develop themselves." Greenwood has stated that his own version of the Forgotten Realms, as run in his personal campaign, is much darker than published versions.
Forgotten Realms (comics)
Forgotten Realms is a fantasy comic book set in the "Dungeons & Dragons" "Forgotten Realms" campaign setting, written by Jeff Grubb and illustrated by Rags Morales and Dave Simons.
Malar (Forgotten Realms)
Ed Greenwood created Malar for his home "Dungeons & Dragons" game, set in Greenwood's Forgotten Realms world.
Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting
The Forgotten Realms is the primary campaign setting for "D&D" 5th edition, being the location of most major published adventures for the game. Again, major world events move the larger story onward, as an event known as "the Sundering" restores much of the pre-Spellplague Realms. A campaign supplement, "Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide" was released in November 2015.
Eric L. Boyd
Boyd used to run a campaign set in the Forgotten Realms, specifically a play by email set in Waterdeep, City of Splendors, revolving around the Waterdhavian nobility called "Hidden Splendors". However, Hidden Splendors is currently on hiatus. More recently he has started up the "Six Swords" campaign set in the Sembian city of Yhaunn.
Sean K. Reynolds
The "Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting" won the Origins Award for Best Role-Playing Game Supplement of 2001. It made the Amazon.ca bestseller list at number 47 in September 2002. Reynolds identified the "Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting" as his favorite individual product from throughout his career, stating that it "was a huge amount of work but was so worth it because it is a great product". In May 2003 his book "Races of Faerun" (co-authored with Matt Forbeck, James Jacobs, and Eric L. Boyd) landed on the same bestseller list at number 42.
Tyr (Forgotten Realms)
Tyr ( ) is the Faerûnian deity of Law and Justice in Ed Greenwood's "Forgotten Realms" campaign setting of the "Dungeons & Dragons" role-playing game, specifically the fictional world of Abeir-Toril. His dogma is primarily concerned with the punishment of wrong-doers, and the general furthering of Law and Good in the world.
The Nobles
The Nobles is a series of novels by David Cook, Victor Milan, Mark Anthony, Brian Thomsen, Paul Kidd, and Lynn Abbey, set in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting.
Mystra (Forgotten Realms)
Mystra ( ) is a fictional goddess in the "Forgotten Realms" campaign setting for the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game.
Talos (Forgotten Realms)
Talos later officially appeared as one of the major deities for the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, in the "Forgotten Realms Campaign Set"s "Cyclopedia of the Realms" booklet (1987).
Silvanus (Forgotten Realms)
Silvanus later officially appeared as one of the major deities for the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, in the "Forgotten Realms Campaign Set"s "Cyclopedia of the Realms" booklet (1987).
Waterdeep
The City of Waterdeep was an integral part of Ed Greenwood's house campaign, and is the most important city in the north of the Forgotten Realms setting. Game designer Ken Rolston called Waterdeep "the urban showpiece of the Forgotten Realms campaign". Jim Bambra called Waterdeep "an ideal setting for urban adventures", adding that Waterdeep "has a rich background which gives the city great character".
Deneir
Deneir later officially appeared as one of the major deities for the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, in the "Forgotten Realms Campaign Set"'s "Cyclopedia of the Realms" booklet (1987).
List of Forgotten Realms cities
Major products
Forgotten Realms
In 1989, DC Comics began publishing a series of Forgotten Realms comics written by Jeff Grubb. Each issue contained twenty-six pages, illustrated primarily by Rags Morales and Dave Simons. Twenty-five issues were published in total, with the last being released in 1991. A fifty-six page annual "Forgotten Realms Comic Annual #1: Waterdhavian Nights", illustrated by various artists, was released in 1990.
Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting
The "Dungeon Master's Sourcebook of the Realms" describes how to set up and run a campaign in the Forgotten Realms. A pair of miniscenarios is included, and information is provided on wilderness terrain and movement, important personalities, rumors, and significant and magical books. Written from the perspective of Elminster the sage, the book introduces the campaign setting, explains how to use it, and offers adventure resources. Large areas were set aside to be developed for house campaigns, and no published materials were intended to be printed to exploit those areas, while one area detailed in this package was intended to have no subsequent publications use that area. The package covers only the western half of a single continent, with the eastern half reserved for future publication of Kara-Tur. Two complete dungeon-style adventures are provided: "Halls of the Beast-Tamers", a dungeon with many unconventional problem-solving exercises, and "Lashan's Fall", a dungeon with a mystery and an opportunity to parley with a monster. The "Books of the Forgotten Realms" section is a treatment of several magical tomes that suggests a variety of adventures, with a description of the appearance, history, and contents of each book.
List of Forgotten Realms characters
A family born to the drow race (a component of R. A. Salvatore's series "Forgotten Realms", including several subseries) the Baenre family is the family which has reigned in the fictional Underdark city of Menzoberranzan for over 2000 years. House Baenre is a family of powerful schemers and manipulators that holds more power than any other house in Menzoberranzan.
Torm (Forgotten Realms)
Torm was described in the hardback "Forgotten Realms Adventures" (1990), the revised "Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting" (1993) in the "Running the Realms" booklet, and "Faiths & Avatars" (1996). "Faiths & Avatars" details Torm's actions in the Time of Troubles, leading up to his self-sacrifice, subsequent reinstatement and promotion to lesser status.
Halls of the High King
Halls of the High King () is an adventure module for the fictional Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the second edition of the "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game. The book, with product code TSR 9301, was published in 1990, and was written by Ed Greenwood, with cover art by Jeff Easley and interior art by Tim Bradstreet and Rick Harris.
List of Forgotten Realms novels
This is a list of fantasy fiction novels based in the role-playing game setting of the Forgotten Realms.
Time of Troubles (Forgotten Realms)
On the fictional world of Toril, the planet on which the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy setting The Forgotten Realms is based, The Time of Troubles was precipitated by an attempt by two of the settings' deities, the gods Bane and Myrkul, to steal the Tablets of Fate from the overgod Ao. The tablets were created by Ao and delineated the areas of responsibilities given to each deity: his or her "portfolio" over which each of the gods of the Forgotten Realms have domain. Angry with the gods for their habitual pursuit of power and negligence toward their mortal faithful, the theft of the Tablets resulted in Ao banishing all of the gods save Helm (selected to protect the gates to the heavens) to take on avatars and live as mortals on Toril. The novels covering this event and subsequent game products take place almost exclusively on the western continent of Faerûn.
Cormyr
Cormyr is a fictional country in the "Forgotten Realms" campaign setting, both created by Canadian writer Ed Greenwood, and published first by TSR, Inc. and subsequently by Wizards of the Coast for the "Dungeons and Dragons" fantasy role-playing game. Cormyr is located in the interior of the fictional continent of Faerûn, and serves as a geographical backdrop for several fantasy novels set in the Forgotten Realms.
Artemis Entreri
Artemis Entreri is a fictional character in the "Forgotten Realms" campaign setting for the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game. Entreri is depicted as a ruthless assassin and the arch-enemy of Drizzt Do'Urden, the protagonistic dark elf. He is the creation of author R. A. Salvatore, first appearing at the end of the 1988 novel "The Crystal Shard", the first book in "The Icewind Dale Trilogy". He makes regular reappearances in subsequent novels by Salvatore, reprising his role of main antagonist to the hero Drizzt Do'Urden.
List of Forgotten Realms novels
This series is a cross-over between the Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance settings.By Douglas NilesBy Douglas Niles"Darkwalker on Moonshae" was the very first Forgotten Realms novel ever published.
Douglas Niles
Douglas Niles (born December 1, 1954, in Brookfield, Wisconsin) is a fantasy author and game designer. Niles was one of the creators of the Dragonlance world and the author of the first three Forgotten Realms novels, and the Top Secret S/I espionage role-playing game.
The Forgotten Realms Atlas
"The Forgotten Realms Atlas" is an indexed book which contains three-color maps from Forgotten Realms modules and novels. This includes large, small scale regional maps (one inch to two hundred miles), as well as detailed location maps and diagrams of story and scenario areas, and focuses on the Moonshae Isles, the Northwest lands near Waterdeep, and the Western Heartlands areas around Cormyr and the Dalelands. These large scale maps cover the areas detailed in Forgotten Realms game modules and novels that had been published before the "Atlas".
Lathander
Lathander ( ), the "Morninglord", is a fictional deity of the "Forgotten Realms" Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting devised by Ed Greenwood. He also plays a role in the Ravenloft setting (but is always called "the Morninglord" there, not by his proper name).
Forgotten Realms
Beginning with the periodical's 30th issue in 1979, Greenwood published a series of short articles that detailed the setting in "The Dragon" magazine, the first of which was about a monster known as the "curst". Greenwood wrote voluminous entries to "Dragon" magazine, using the Realms as a setting for his descriptions of magic items, monsters, and spells. In 1986, the American game publishing company TSR began looking for a new campaign setting for the "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" game, and assigned Jeff Grubb to find out more about the setting used by Greenwood as portrayed in his articles in "Dragon". According to Greenwood, Grubb asked him "Do you just make this stuff up as you go, or do you really have a huge campaign world?"; Greenwood answered "yes" to both questions. TSR felt that the Forgotten Realms would be a more open-ended setting than the epic Dragonlance setting, and chose the Realms as a ready-made campaign setting upon deciding to publish "AD&D" 2nd Edition. Greenwood agreed to work on the project, and began working to get the Forgotten Realms officially published. Greenwood sent TSR a few dozen cardboard boxes stuffed with pencil notes and maps, and sold all rights to the Realms for a token fee. Greenwood noted that TSR altered his original conception of the Realms being a place that we could travel to from our world, "Concerns over possible lawsuits (kids getting hurt while trying to 'find a gate') led TSR to de-emphasize this meaning".
The Avatar Series
The original trilogy had its counterpart AD&D modules, even though these three adventures did not aim to be a precise retelling of the novels and could also be played individually instead of in sequence. These were written by Ed Greenwood, the original creator of the Forgotten Realms line. The published adventures were:The objective of this trilogy was to transition the Forgotten Realms scenario from the first to the second edition AD&D rules, much as the "Fate of Istus" adventure did with the Greyhawk campaign setting. To accomplish this objective, the writing of the modules and novels was being done simultaneously, supposedly to allow their publication at the same time the core rules transitioned to the second edition. The final format of the three-part adventure would be more plot-driven than those of the previously traditional dungeon crawling modules but this would end up becoming more common in published material from here onwards.
Reth
Reth is a fictional city in the "Forgotten Realms" campaign setting for the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game. Reth is one of the five free cities located in the Chondath region of the Vilhon Reach in Faerûn.
Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures
Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures, also known as Unlimited Adventures, or by the acronyms FRUA or UA, is a video game originally released on March 17, 1993, by Strategic Simulations, Inc. for the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh.
Shar (Forgotten Realms)
Ed Greenwood created Shar for his home "Dungeons & Dragons" game, set in Greenwood's Forgotten Realms world.
Undead (Dungeons &amp; Dragons)
Boneclaws in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting were created by Szass Tam to protect Thayan enclaves.
Helm (Forgotten Realms)
Helm later officially appeared as one of the major deities for the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, in the "Forgotten Realms Campaign Set"s "Cyclopedia of the Realms" booklet (1987).
Citadel Felbarr
"Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting"
Neverwinter Nights (series)
Neverwinter Nights is a series of video games developed by BioWare and Obsidian Entertainment, based on the "Forgotten Realms" campaign setting of the "Dungeons & Dragons" role-playing game. It is unrelated to the 1991 online game of the same name distributed by AOL.
Waterdeep and the North
Waterdeep and the North (product code FR1) is an accessory for the "Dungeons & Dragons" campaign setting "Forgotten Realms". It was written by Ed Greenwood and published by TSR in 1987.
Forgotten Realms
Although the Realms were yet to be an official campaign world, the module "H1: Bloodstone Pass", released in 1985 by TSR, is now considered to be a part of the Forgotten Realms, although it wasn't until module H3 "The Bloodstone Wars" was released that Forgotten Realms became the official setting for the module series. The first official Forgotten Realms product was Douglas Niles's "Darkwalker on Moonshae", the first book in "The Moonshae Trilogy", which predates the "Forgotten Realms Campaign Set" by one month.
Jergal
Jergal is a fictional god in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.
Stephanie Pui-Mun Law
Wizards of the Coast has used Law's work in products for their "Forgotten Realms" campaign setting, as well as their "" collectible card game.
The Bloodstone Lands
The Bloodstone Lands is a module for the "Forgotten Realms" campaign setting for the 2nd edition of "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons". It is also known by its product code FR9.
List of regions in Faerûn
This is a list of fictional regions, geographical features, and other locations on the continent of Faerûn from the "Forgotten Realms" setting. These locations have appeared in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game, the multiple series of novels set in the Forgotten Realms, or the numerous video games set in the Forgotten Realms, or any combination thereof.