Ed Greenwood began writing stories about the Forgotten Realms as a child, starting at the age of 8. [10], In 1985, the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons module H1: Bloodstone Pass was released by TSR and is retroactively considered to be a part of the Forgotten Realms,[11] although it was not until module H3 The Bloodstone Wars was released that the Forgotten Realms became the official setting for the module series. [14]:113, The boxed set Kara-Tur: The Eastern Realms was released in 1988, giving details of the lands of Kara-Tur which designed for use with the 1986 book Oriental Adventures, and were now officially placed in the Forgotten Realms world.[14]:103. [32]:190 This updated the Forgotten Realms to the newest rules system which altered the setting drastically to make it fit into the 4th Edition "Points of Light" concept. 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". The result of The Second Sundering, in game terms, was the transition from 4th Edition rules to 5th Edition rules of Dungeons & Dragons, published in 2014. A sequel using version 3.5 of the rules was produced by Obsidian Entertainment in 2006, itself followed by the expansion sets Mask of the Betrayer and Storm of Zehir. It was followed by two expansion packs, Shadows of Undrentide and Hordes of the Underdark. [20], Several supplements to the original boxed set were released under the first edition rules, beginning with FR1 Waterdeep and the North. [14]:103, R.A. Salvatore wrote his first Forgotten Realms novel in 1988, The Crystal Shard (1988), which was originally set in the Moonshae Islands, but was moved to a new location and the drow character Drizzt was added. It changed the pantheon of the gods. [6] Greenwood began a Realms campaign in the city of Waterdeep, then started another group known as the Knights of Myth Drannor in Shadowdale.
In 2002, BioWare released Neverwinter Nights, set in the northern reaches of Faerûn and operating on the revised 3.0 rules for D&D. [8][42], With the release of the 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons in 2014, Wizards of the Coast announced that the Forgotten Realms would continue to serve as the official campaign setting for its upcoming published adventure materials. [18] In 1988, the first in a line of Forgotten Realms role-playing video games, Pool of Radiance, was released by Strategic Simulations, Inc.[19] The game was popular, winning the Origins Award for "Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Computer Game of 1988". The premise is that, long ago, the Earth and the world of the Forgotten Realms were more closely connected. Markings that marked spell-plagued people and animals will fade and go away. [76], Christian Hoffer, for ComicBook.com, reported that the Wizards of the Coast 5th Edition publishing strategy, which focuses on the Forgotten Realms and newer intellectual property for campaign settings, has created a rift in the fan base where a segment "feel that this push for new players has come at the cost of keeping the game's current players sated" by not updating campaign settings that "predate the Forgotten Realms". Forgotten Realms Top: The Forgotten Realms logo Bottom: Forgotten Realms logo DesignerEd Greenwood Publication date1987–current GenreFantasy LanguageEnglish Media typeGame accessories, novels, role-playing video games, comic books Forgotten Realms is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. [4]:72 The setting became the home of Greenwood's personal campaign. Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor was released in 2001.
When Wizards of the Coast took over publication of Dungeons & Dragons after purchasing TSR in 1997, they trimmed production down from six campaign settings to just the Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance, and competed 2nd edition AD&D production from 1998-1999.
[12] Douglas Niles had been working on a trilogy of Celtic-themed novels, which were modified to become the first Forgotten Realms books, beginning with Darkwalker on Moonshae (1987). In Greenwood's original conception, the fantastic legends of Earth derive from a fantasy world, the way to which has been lost. [6] When Gary Gygax "lost control of TSR in 1985, the company saw an opportunity to move beyond Greyhawk and introduce a new default setting". [4]:72 Greenwood wrote voluminous entries to Dragon magazine, using the Realms as a setting for his descriptions of magic items, monsters, and spells. [5] 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.
[33][57], Religion plays a large part in the Forgotten Realms, with deities and their followers being an integral part of the world. RA Salvatore took Greenwood’s world and created characters and stories for it that made him a bestselling author and sustained TSR as a major fantasy book publisher". [22] Additional material for the setting was released steadily throughout the 1990s. [33] Kara-Tur, roughly corresponding to ancient East Asia, was later the focus of its own source book Kara-Tur: The Eastern Realms, published in 1988.
That created both geographic changes (the map of the Forgotten Realms and Faerun actually changed due to that collision), and also changed the way magic works. [60], Much of the history of The Realms detailed in novels and source books concerns the actions of various deities and The Chosen (mortal representatives with a portion of their deities' power) such as Elminster, Fzoul Chembryl, Midnight (who later became the new embodiment of the goddess of magic, Mystra[21]:140), and the Seven Sisters. [70] This popular reception has also been reflected in public libraries. That's entirely due to the large-scale destruction of the Realms. In 2008, the Forgotten Realms also became the setting for the RPGA's sole living campaign, Living Forgotten Realms, replacing Living Greyhawk. In 2011, the Neverwinter Campaign Setting was released which launched the 4th Edition's first major multimedia release. [14]:96–97 Also in 1988 came the City System boxed set, containing several maps of the city of Waterdeep. [4]:75 Each issue contained twenty-six pages, illustrated primarily by Rags Morales and Dave Simons. The Forgotten Realms is one of the most popular D&D settings,[2][3] largely due to the success of novels by authors such as R. A. Salvatore and numerous role-playing video games, including Pool of Radiance (1988), Eye of the Beholder (1991), Baldur's Gate (1998), Icewind Dale (2000), Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2000), and Neverwinter Nights (2002). The Forgotten Realms Deluxe Edition compilation was released in 2006, containing the Baldur's Gate series (excluding the Dark Alliance games), Icewind Dale series, and all Neverwinter Nights games before Neverwinter Nights 2.
[77], Dungeons & Dragons fictional campaign setting. [8], 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? With that said, some folks did love the changes, because the setting was now more playable, more accessible, more fantastic, and more PC centered. [...] Meanwhile a series of adventures and novels called The Sundering (2013-2014) reversed many of the 4e changes to the Realms, but without rebooting the timeline. Though a true deity with awes… There are several nation states and many independent cities, with loose alliances being formed for defense or conquest. An ascended hero who lived his mortal life in service to a just sovereign, Torm eschews the pretense of his fellow deities, instead adopting a humble position that he exists to serve the common good and the rule of law as established by honorable mortal rulers. [69] Over time these novels have gained "unprecedented popularity",[70] which led, as Marc Oxoby noted in his book, The 1990s, to the novels having an "extraordinary shelf life", remaining in print for many years. The Forgotten Realms is a fantasy world setting, described as a world of strange lands, dangerous creatures, and mighty deities, where magic and supernatural phenomena are quite real. [8][49][50], The first campaign guide for the new edition, the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide (2015), was released on November 3, 2015 and only covered a fraction of the Forgotten Realms. The Sundering is all about those two worlds separating—coming apart—and the process of that separation is really the story that we’re telling over the next year. | Interview with Nathan Stewart", "Dungeons & Dragons Expands Its Line with Three New Releases", "Talking Dungeons & Dragons: Tyranny of Dragons Adventures With the Designers", "Neverwinter's Tyranny of Dragons expansion arrives Aug. 14", "Dungeons & Dragons Announces Elemental Evil as Next Storyline, Gives Release Dates", "Out of the Abyss: D&D's next campaign goes deep into the Underdark", "Tabletop Review: Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide (Dungeons & Dragons, Fifth Edition)", "Sword Coast Legends has Dungeons & Dragons' flavor but not its creativity", "The Lone Drow: the Hunter's Blades Trilogy, Book II", "Dungeons & Dragons' Greatest Wizard Is More Than a Gandalf Rip-Off", "25 fantasy worlds from the past 25 years we'd want to visit", "Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide (4e) - Wizards of the Coast | Product History", "Sword Coast Legends isn't last generation's D&D — and that's sometimes a bad thing", "R.A. Salvatore and Erin M. Evans Bring War to the Forgotten Realms", "11 Best Dungeons & Dragons Campaign Settings", "The Divide Brewing Among Dungeons & Dragons Fans", Dungeon Master Option: High-Level Campaigns, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forgotten_Realms&oldid=981873651#Religion, Short description is different from Wikidata, Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Game accessories, novels, role-playing video games, comic books, This page was last edited on 4 October 2020, at 22:41. [4]:73 This was followed by FR2 Moonshae in 1987, and FR3 Empires of the Sands, FR4 The Magister, FR5 The Savage Frontier, FR6 Dreams of the Red Wizards, and REF5 Lords of Darkness in 1988.
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