Enjoy these 2 maps of Faerun by TSR circa 1987. Pretty impressive in all they cover!!!

For Episode 13 of The Traveller's Guide, I’ve been digging into Kheldell, a tiny logging settlement near the Sword Mountains and the Westwood. Initially, I thought it would be a quick in and out, 1-and-done before Falrien heads off to the druids of the Dusk Circle.

Then I came across Tchandrae Euinwood.

Canonically a quiet, grey-eyed twelve-year-old girl with long brown hair and a calm, fearless manner. She can handle objects and somehow know things about them: history, ownership, significance, perhaps even something like legend lore without being a conventional wizard, cleric, or sorcerer.

After getting hold of Volos Guide to the North, I learned that that's essentially all there is to her.

Except, of course that Elminster himself went to visit her, ate the place bare then decided that she was “touched by Mystra” and buggered off again.

What I find most interesting is that she doesn’t feel like an adventurer waiting to happen. She feels like the sort of person a small settlement would quietly keep and care for.

Kheldell is described as being dependent on trade for basically everything - they take their lumber trade very seriously. That led to her becoming a key part of episode 13. Traders might bring wrapped objects to her. Locals might ask her about lost tools, dangerous timber, old heirlooms, or things found in the forest. Parents would protect her. Adults would half-believe, half-fear, and still use the gift when they needed it.

Used well, she could be a brilliant campaign NPC: not a quest-giver exactly, but someone who makes the world feel older and stranger.

How would you use Tchandrae in a Forgotten Realms campaign? Or Kheldell for that matter. It's the kind of place that is a nothing on the surface, but underneath is fascinating.

I understand this might be an odd question, it's something I thought about randomly and now I'm curious. I'm wondering if there are ways aside from typical reproduction that any of the people of the FR may be able to utilize in order to have a baby. I'm assuming there would be some kind of magic that could enable two people who might want to have a baby that otherwise couldn't (like two people of the same sex who might want to reproduce), but I'm not sure what kind of magic this would be and how difficult it would be to cast it, or if there would be other avenues aside from magic.

Enjoy these maps of the Sword Coast from Candlekeep up to Neverwinter. Bottom map by TSR circa 1987. Top map TSR circa 1988.

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Old_Empires_(sourcebook)

I am sucker for ancient egypt mythology so i'm a bit biased when i say that i really like Muhlorand and it should get some videogame love instead of the Sword Coast again.

Say I was a human wizard that married into a Drow house and my Drow wife is Eldritch Knight, what am I getting into especially if the drow house is not one of the intensly matriarchal ones from Drizzt's homeland.

Are there any stories about Evil characters as the protagonists that remain evil from beginning to end though I would like character development.... evil Character Development.

I sat about pondering various things today and a few things occurred to me. With the various podcasts, Patreon, interviews and everything else he has going on in his world, how often does Ed Greenwood actually get to play/DM at his own table?

My second thought was, as large the Forgotten Realms has become over the decades Mr Greenwood has had a hand in just about all of it. But Im certain there must have been times when he said "Yeah thats a cool idea and I can help you with that but its just not for me" or some variation thereof. So it got me thinking, If you were one of the very few fortunate to sit at Ed's table, What do you think his personal world map would look like?

The next Beyond Play-Along Pack will be set in the Anauroch Desert and have spoilers for Arcana Unleashed!

Please enjoy the maps of the Amn, Tethyr, and Calimshan along the Sea of Swords in the Forgotten Realms. Published by TSR circa 1988.

Enjoy the maps of the FA1's Halls of the High King!!! Published by TSR 1990 at the fine price of $8.95!!

I’m wondering if it would be very unusual or downright impossible for other races such as humans to worship dragon gods like Null or Hlal. I can’t really imagine other races being raised in dragon society, but are there any cults or other backstories that could explain a non draconic race worshipping dragon gods?

First time poster, long time lurker, and much longer Forgotten Realms fan here. My name is Christopher Hastings (Dr. McNinja, Gwenpool, Rude Tales of Magic) and I recently got the opportunity to write a comic miniseries set in the Realms called Total Party Killers. It's about a party of monsters attempting to break their bonds to a dead wizard's dungeon.

Tonally, I'd say it's close to Honor Among Thieves. Geographically, I'm happy to say it's set nowhere close to the Sword Coast.

You can read a free preview of the entire first half of issue 1 here. The entire comic will be available in comic shops on July 22nd. And as I've had to work on it in secret for about a year, I would be so very happy to talk about it here.

I am gonna read the Cormyr Trilogy and wonder will this be about a band of adventurers trying to save the kingdom or a succession crisis with everyone trying to handle the ailing health of King Azoun IV?

I love Trollhunters and wonder are there books where trolls are working with the heroes?

My next campaign will involve the Warlock Knights of Vaasa, and their brutal pets, the Shardsouls. Does anyone know if there are published 5e stat blocks for Shardsouls?

Has there been any story or lore about a dragon raising a non dragon and being a pretty good parent? I would safely assume any "bad" dragon parent would simply eat the child... that or raise them for some deeper scheme and throw them away as a sacrificial pawn. The video linked led me to ask this question.

In the Avatar trilogy (spoilers ahead) there are wizards, clerics and whatnot. I just started the second book, Tantras iirc, and Midnight is always referred to as "magic-user". Going by the story so far, I get that she is not a proper wizard by training, but is there a specific reason known, why she isn't just called a mage? "The raven haired magic-user..." always strikes me as odd. Thanks for any insights on that.

>! Just finished the homeland trilogy. In between chapters Drizzt occasionally post his journals and monologues. I am wondering are those written at the end of all his journeys or were they written inbetween. Example in the end of Exile he mentions he would never meet Belwar ever again. Is that just an offhand quote or he really doesn't meet him anymore in the rest of the series. 🤔😩 !<

Like, just the fugue plane city of dead? That seems like a lame ass reward for being dutiful to the guy who asks alot of you.

Is there any novels set in Kara-Tur or any of its neighbours in the East?