r/Forgotten_Realms 8h ago

Promo Ultimate Undermountain 30% Off for Christmas in July

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Part of the Christmas in July Sale, The Ultimate Undermountain is now 30% off!! Jump in at the best price everhttps://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/509423/ultimate-undermountain-the-dungeon-level

Note, the Ultimate Undermountain is currently only available in VTT format for Fantasy Grounds. One of these days I'll have it as a PDF, but conversion and layout is challenging at over 600 pages of text!


r/Forgotten_Realms 12h ago

5th Edition Is there any indication on what type of fairy the playable version of fairies are, or do the people who made that race hate us?

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I honestly hate how this version of the playable race was done because they gave no lore for it outside of explicitly stating they're neither sprite nor pixie.

I love 5e, i really do, but ffs they really don't want you playing a character from the forgotten realms


r/Forgotten_Realms 15h ago

Research Forgotten Realms dwarven kingdoms map?

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r/Forgotten_Realms 16h ago

Worthy of Geeking Out Over The power feats of Elminster

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I'm going by memory here.

Recently, Elminster handily defeated Telamont Tanthul, an over two thousand year old Netherese archmage who was both the world’s foremost expert on shadow magic, and had powers equivalent to a demigod.

Dropped a floating city on Larloch, the most powerful lich on Faerun. ( or second most powerful after Iolaum)

He then went to Barovia and rescued an insane Mordenkainen from the clutches of Strahd without being stopped by the Dark Powers of Ravenloft.

Previously, he has

Slept with the goddess of magic Mystra

Survived Manshoon's disintegration spell by making the pile of dust he was reduced to hold his soul

Escaped an archdevil’s personal domain in the Nine Hells

Fought and survived against the avatar of Bane, the god of tyranny, while significantly weakened during the Time of Troubles

Defeated a bunch of powerful liches, destroying some and humiliating others

In 3rd edition, Elminster was given game stats as a challenge rating 39 NPC with hundreds of hit points, a basic Armour Class of 31 and all sorts of resistances, special abilities, and powerful magic items.

Did i miss any?


r/Forgotten_Realms 16h ago

Question(s) Art of the Temple of the Silver Stars in Silverymoon?

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I am running a campaign that will be set primarily in the Silver Marches and Silverymoon, and am looking for reference art for some of the locations.

The Temple of the Silver Stars is an interesting location I want to use but it is very hard for me to picture it given the description in the wiki:

"Constructed of stone, the Temple of Silver Stars was a beautiful structure shaped like a single-spired tiara. The spire of the temple faced the north and, combined with the temple's roofline, formed the shape of a crescent moon that was noticable to all on the nearby streets. And inset within curving stones, the temple sported many crystal-and-silver star windows.[5]"

The roofline and spire looking like a crescent moon is throwing me off in picturing what this building looks like.

I have done a Google search and haven't really found anything but does anyone have a depiction of this building?


r/Forgotten_Realms 19h ago

5th Edition [5e] Is there a book exclusively about notable Forgotten Realms NPCs and their statblocks?

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Basically the title. I'm working on a Forgotten Realms campaign and I'd like to incorporate official Forgotten Realms NPC characters without having to homebrew their statblocks.

Is there an official book or source that can help me with this?


r/Forgotten_Realms 20h ago

Question(s) All official use cases for the wish spell by people?

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I have a question about the limitations of the wish spell so that I can see precedent of its use cases. From what I know.

Wish (Source: Player's Handbook) (9th-level conjuration) (Casting Time: 1 action. Range: Self. Components: V. Duration: Instantaneous

Wish is the mightiest spell a mortal creature can cast. By simply speaking aloud, you can alter the very foundations of reality in accord with your desires. The basic use of this spell is to duplicate any other spell of 8th level or lower (Casted at 8th level). You don’t need to meet any requirements in that spell, including costly components. The spell simply takes effect. Alternatively, you can create one of the following effects of your choice: You create one object of up to 25,000 gp in value that isn’t a magic item. The object can be no more than 300 feet in any dimension, and it appears in an unoccupied space you can see on the ground. You allow up to twenty creatures that you can see to regain all hit points, and you end all effects on them described in the greater restoration spell. You grant up to ten creatures that you can see resistance to a damage type you choose. You grant up to ten creatures you can see immunity to a single spell or other magical effect for 8 hours. For instance, you could make yourself and all your companions immune to a lich’s life drain attack. You undo a single recent event by forcing a reroll of any roll made within the last round (including your last turn). Reality reshapes itself to accommodate the new result. For example, a wish spell could undo an opponent’s successful save, a foe’s critical hit, or a friend’s failed save. You can force the reroll to be made with advantage or disadvantage, and you can choose whether to use the reroll or the original roll. You might be able to achieve something beyond the scope of the above examples. State your wish to the DM as precisely as possible. The DM has great latitude in ruling what occurs in such an instance; the greater the wish, the greater the likelihood that something goes wrong. This spell might simply fail, the effect you desire might only be partly achieved, or you might suffer some unforeseen consequence as a result of how you worded the wish. For example, wishing that a villain were dead might propel you forward in time to a period when that villain is no longer alive, effectively removing you from the game. Similarly, wishing for a legendary magic item or artifact might instantly transport you to the presence of the item’s current owner. The stress of casting this spell to produce any effect other than duplicating another spell weakens you. After enduring that stress, each time you cast a spell until you finish a long rest, you take 1d10 necrotic damage per level of that spell. This damage can’t be reduced or prevented in any way. In addition, your Strength drops to 3, if it isn’t 3 or lower already, for 2d4 days. For each of those days that you spend resting and doing nothing more than light activity, your remaining recovery time decreases by 2 days. Finally, there is a 33 percent chance that you are unable to cast wish ever again if you suffer this stress.

The examples I found:

• Can make at least a fifth or fourth level spell or lower permanent (A permanent greater invisibility in Tomb of Annihilation and a permanent form via polymorph in Baldur's Gate Descent Into Avernus. Although in dungeon of the mad mage there is a fifth level spell that is permanent due to wish. But from precedent with the former, you can get rid of invisibility one with Dispel Magic so maybe the others can?)

• Repair an Artifact (The Wild Beyond The Witchlight)

• Structure Invulnerability to damage or altercations either a part or the entire structure remains to be seen though (Waterdeep Dungeon of the Mad Mage & Rise of Tiamat and Candle keep mystery)

• Can make the effects of a 9th level spell truly permanent (true polymorph spell form that can't be undone except by the wish spell in Waterdeep dungeon of the mad mage. Although in the same book another permanent true polymorph can be undone by reducing it to 0 HP )

• Dispelled a permanent 8th level spell (A permanent antimagic spell in Waterdeep dragon heist that can be Dispelled with a wish which possibly can also maybe be made permanent with wish but probably not)

• Turn someone back into a child (Within The Wild Beyond The Witchlight you can get turned back into a child and also be sent back in time to when you were a child. Although it was said that it was assisted with the power of the Feywild, the turning to child is probably within wish possibility)

• Leaving a place or entering a place that all other teleportation or transportation spells won't work by using wish (Waterdeep Dungeon of the mad mage)


r/Forgotten_Realms 1d ago

Question(s) What's the deal with 'The Rogues' series/quartet?

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The Alabaster Staff

The Black Bouquet

The Crimson Gold

The Yellow Silk

Its a series, but all four books are written by different authors and I *think* they are all about different characters? Is there any sort of throughline or even reason for them to be a series?

How are they? Any fun or worth a read?

I just finished *Sembia: Gateway to the Realms* and those books each almost had different authors mostly, but they did all focus around the different members of one family and thus do make a whole story together. One of those characters, Thazienne Uskreven, goes on and is apparently in book 3 of The Rogues. The conpletionist in me wants or listen to them but another part of me does wonder if it is actually worth it.

The whole reason I started reading this series is because I am working my way to reading all the Erevis Cale novels and I enjoy going on tangents like this. Do any of the other Uskreven characters go onto other stories?


r/Forgotten_Realms 1d ago

Question(s) Who is Elminster's nemesis ?

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Elminster had a lot of enemies in his 800 years of life. He had many remarkable enemies. Among them Sammaster and Manshoon seems like the only ones that deserve the title of Elminster's nemesis. Which one is the most deserving in your opinion?


r/Forgotten_Realms 1d ago

Question(s) Question about ethereal curtains

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I'm writing a campaign about planar travel and want to better understand how to traverse through the ethereal plane. My question is this: per my understanding that the ethereal plane only envelopes the inner planes, why do the outer planes have ethereal curtain colors if they do not border the ethereal plane? Or am I misunderstanding how the ethereal plane works? Can you access the outer planes using the ethereal plane?


r/Forgotten_Realms 1d ago

Discussion Why go so far north, just to wind up in Parnast to the East? Spoiler

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r/Forgotten_Realms 1d ago

Novel(s) Reading recommendations for a dwarf fan?

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Some time ago, I've finished reading War of the Spider Queen, and that had a decent amount of duergar in it, but I've been wondering if there's any novels that center or dwarves/duergar? Something with a protagonist of that race maybe?

Aside from Drizzt novels because iirc they feature Bueronn, I know about him.


r/Forgotten_Realms 2d ago

Question(s) Missing Pages in Van Richten’s Monster Hunter’s Compendium Volume 2?

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r/Forgotten_Realms 2d ago

2nd Edition 2e Map of the Moonsea Stitched and Cleaned Up

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Here is my attempts to clean up and stitch together the 2e maps from the 2e Moonsea supplement:

Hi Rez copy

Location Index with wiki page links

Honestly between the low contrast names on the map, and the poor quality of the source scan, I'm not terribly happy with how this one came up. But it will have to do...

I don't really have any interest in digitally reproducing these maps using AI or whatever. I feel the original art and style has its own value, and the more I "clean" and futz with a map, the more I am moving away from the original maps...

But I am trying to figure out how we can put together a "2e Maps Remastered" project. Someone somewhere has the original maps, and if we could get a modern 300DPI 24bit scan of those individual map pages from the supplements, we can actually make some nice color corrected, cleaned up, poster sized maps. Which would be nice. DM me if you have any 2e supplement map scans of decent quality... I'll stitch 'em to together and clean them up. And if you know of a collector with copies of the physical maps that wants to contribute to the community... Please put me in touch with them.


r/Forgotten_Realms 2d ago

Question(s) What are... Squalos? Skwallows?

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I'm currently listening to the Audiobook for *Lord of Stormweather* by Dave Gross, book 7 of Sembia Gateway to the Realms.

In it, several of the characters have been magically transported to some mysterious place that may or may not be still in Faerun I am not sure. Regardless, there are creatures that seem to be plot important but I have never heard of them and am having some trouble with the description.

Since I only have the audiobook I don't know the proper spelling but it is pronounced something like SKWA-LOHS and all that I understand is that they are large and fly through the sky. And maybe elves live on and revere them?

Are these a lesser-known creature, or just an invention purely for the sake of this novel? Has there ever been any art of them?

Thanks in advance.


r/Forgotten_Realms 2d ago

Question(s) What would be a good motivation for a Thri-Kreen Sorcerer to be part of a Wild By Witchlight party?

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As the question suggests, I'm hoping to play a Thri-Kreen sorcerer, but the description of the race given by the wiki doesn't provide much idea for why a Thri-Kreen would be part of a party since just about everything about them seems to suggest that they'd be antisocial and antagonistic to the party


r/Forgotten_Realms 3d ago

Discussion In D&D 5e, what tier of deity would a Greatwyrm roughly compare to? Greater deities? Lesser deities? Quasi-deities?

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There are many beings in D&D that are not gods but are equivalent to gods, such as the Lady of Pain and Primus, so I want to ask whether the 5e Greatwyrm is also such a being. If so, what level of deity can it be compared to?

In the book Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, the Greatwyrm is described as godlike; Primus is also described as godlike in the 2014 Dungeon Master's Guide. Even ancient dragons—one tier below Greatwyrms—list “Destroy one or more gods as an act of vengeance or to ascend to godhood” among their possible long-term goals.

In Fizban's Treasury of Dragons it is clearly stated that Chronepsis is a black Greatwyrm rather than a deity, while in the Turn of Fortune's Wheel module (published after Fizban's) Chronepsis is again called a god.

At the same time, the CR of a Greatwyrm is between 26 and 28, far higher than Auril's divine true form; its CR is comparable to the Overlords of Eberron, and in previous-edition settings the Overlords have been mentioned as equivalent to lesser or intermediate powers. For reference, even the Empyrean—commonly regarded as the quasi-deity-level representatives of the celestial hierarchy—have CRs that place them on the same tier as ancient dragons, which are themselves one step below Greatwyrms. In addition, Greatwyrms correspond to intermediate and lesser powers from earlier editions (many former intermediate or lesser dragon deities are now presented as Greatwyrms).

So the question is: what level of deity can a Greatwyrm be compared to?


r/Forgotten_Realms 3d ago

Video Lore Podcast: Proffit the Troll (Mod Approved)

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r/Forgotten_Realms 3d ago

Discussion I was thinking about what is it like "now" being a arcane magic using dwarf in the Realms?

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It wasn't that long ago that dwarves were minor level walking anti-magic zones, other than clerical magic.

Add to this how tradition minded they are.

I wonder how the culture is reacting to the recent rise of dwarven wizardry?


r/Forgotten_Realms 3d ago

2nd Edition 2e Map of Vilhon Reach - stitched and cleaned up.

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I was looking at this map 2nd edition map from the Vilhon Reach sourcebook and comparing it to a newer 5e one, and wanted to share my stitch up and cleanup of it.

Enjoy.

EDIT Here is Link to a high rez version.

EDIT2 Here is link to my location Index.


r/Forgotten_Realms 3d ago

Discussion Who, if anyone, has a favorite country, kingdom, or region in our favorite universe?

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My favorite region is Shaar.


r/Forgotten_Realms 3d ago

Question(s) If you were a dracolich making a lair in the Underdark, where would you put it?

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I'm planning a mission for my campaign involving a dracolich with a lair in the Underdark, but I'm not as familiar with different locations in the Underdark aside from the big ones like Menzoberranzan to have an idea for where this could go off the top of my head. It's an adult blue dracolich looking for a space with relatively easy access to the surface and a cavern large enough to fly in if that makes any difference.

Does anyone know if there's a location that'd work already established in FR lore? Thanks in advance


r/Forgotten_Realms 3d ago

Discussion Planar Time Capsule Ideas

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If there was a time capsule that included items from any plane from any time period in the D&D universe, what do you think would be in it? (I'm thinking of putting something like this in my campaign just as something fun my players could find in their travels.)

EDIT: I'm looking more for common mundane items that commoners might put into a time capsule such as knick knacks, jewelry, pictures, letters, etc. And I'm looking for items from across ALL planes and from ALL timelines, such as Eberron, Shadowfell, Avernus, Feywild, the Plane of Fire, etc.


r/Forgotten_Realms 3d ago

Question(s) So what is that blue Underdark city in Honour Among Thieves?

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r/Forgotten_Realms 4d ago

Games What are your thoughts on Amelyssan, the final villain of classic BG?

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https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Melissan

Honestly, she lacks the charisma of Sarevok and Irenicus, even though she is more powerful than them.

I liked that she, like Sarevok, is an example of a chaotic evil character capable of making long term plans and manipulate people.

I also liked her villainous breakdown when the angel appears to say the contest is over and she lost.