question about the Anauroch Desert, I am creating a background that incorporates the archaeologist into it and would like to use the desert as his breaking point. Is it back in 5e? The map in swordcoast shows it as desert again? Did it revert back? It did. Deserts occur when rainfall/groundwater is too scarce, so back it came. BTW, Anauroch is all sorts of desert: sand dunes in some places, rocky waste to the north, and frozen ice-slick rock (condensation coating, not abundant water) north of that.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 3, 2019
An archaeologist into the Anauroch Desert
