What are The Forgotten Realms of Dungeons&Dragons? September 14, 2017Zoltar Much of D&D’s Fifth\NEdition books take place<br /> in the the Forgotten Realms.<br /> Now, if you’re a new\Nplayer you might not know<br /> what that means.<br /> And, if you’re an old school\Nplayer you might just be<br /> surprised about what new\Nthings may be discovered.<br /> – So, the Forgotten Realms, as a setting,<br /> it’s an old medieval world.<br /> So old that all of the\Ncivilizations that we know exist<br /> in the world today are\Nbuilt upon the bones<br /> of empires and\Ncivilizations that the world<br /> has forgotten about.<br /> – It’s this giant playground.<br /> And, I think that gets us, like\Nwith what we’re dealing with<br /> now it’s sort of like how\Ndo we put it to full use.<br /> – Take, for example,\Nthe city of Waterdeep.<br /> It is a metropolitan, coastal\Ncity on the Sword Coast.<br /> It has hundreds of thousands\Nof people living in it.<br /> But, what people don’t\Nrealize and what few people<br /> in Waterdeep actually remember\Nis that it is built on top<br /> of a dwarven city, which was built on top<br /> of an elven city.<br /> So, if you delve into\NWaterdeep far and deep enough<br /> you will discover these\Nforgotten realms underneath it.<br /> And, that’s sort of a\Ntemplate that carries through<br /> the entire setting.<br /> You can look to pretty much\Nany place where civilization<br /> resides now and say there was\Nsomething else there before.<br /> What is that and what\Nmysteries does it contain?<br /> And, that’s sort of a\Nkey theme of the setting.<br /> – It also could harbor\Nthings that are kind of like<br /> canon from different\Neditions and all kinds<br /> of things like that.<br /> So, I think when we work\Nwith it we just try to<br /> like squeeze the best out of it.<br /> But, it’s so sprawling.<br /> Like, it’s just so big.<br /> – I want to be like what\Nin there, there’s something<br /> that’s sticking out of\Nthe ground and that cannot<br /> be explained and it’s\Nnot a part of any realm<br /> you know of or you’ve\Nread about in the books.<br /> It’s something that is\Ncompletely forgotten<br /> and you don’t know what it is.<br /> And, it’s out of the\Nlore and what the heck<br /> is that thing?<br /> So, Richard and I, we talk\Nabout this and we’re like<br /> we wanna put something\Nin the realms that is<br /> truly forgotten, that\Nyou don’t know about.<br /> And so, as I’m going along\Nto my D and D career here<br /> I’m gonna get a chance to actually write<br /> my own adventures and work with the team<br /> and create these things.<br /> And, I’m gonna put some\Nthings in the Forgotten Realms<br /> that you don’t know about.<br /> You’ve read all the books\Nand you’ve never heard<br /> of this thing before and nobody has,<br /> because I love that.<br /> I think when something\Nis mysterious and unknown<br /> it fires up the imagination.<br /> And, it sparks, it’s\Nmakes it like as we do our<br /> little fearful quest through the world<br /> to make everything known is to like create<br /> this sense of security.<br /> But, when something is\Ncompletely unknown it’s like,<br /> “Whoa, where was that,\Nwhere did this come from?”<br /> And, it’s why I love\Nthings like the pyramids.<br /> Like, there is this thing\Nthat actually exists<br /> in the world that people don’t know<br /> how the hell it was done.<br /> People theorize about it, but\Nit’s still a giant mystery.<br /> And, I love that.<br /> I love that actually exists in reality.<br /> – Now take for an\Nexample the current story<br /> Tomb of Annihilation which\Ntakes place in Chult.<br /> One of the key features\Nof the story is that<br /> you discover a lost city in the jungle<br /> that belonged to an\Nancient Chulton Kingdom<br /> that’s never been described before.<br /> We wanted to actually\Nplay out this idea that<br /> nobody knows anything about this place.<br /> And so, it just heightens the mystery.<br /> But, as you explore it\Nyou learn, or you start to<br /> sort of unravel clues\Nof how this place fell.<br /> And, without giving away too\Nmuch this Chulton Kingdom<br /> once worshiped a god called\NUbtao who abandoned them.<br /> So, they took on, these\Nother gods came to sort of<br /> fill the spiritual vacuum\Nand they turned out<br /> to be trickster gods who kind of misled<br /> this culture into sort of\Na self destructive course.<br /> I won’t spoil anymore\Nthan that, but I mean,<br /> you can meet, you can\Nfind the bones of one of<br /> the old queens under the city.<br /> And, that sort of illuminates\Npart of the story.<br /> I think that what makes the\NForgotten Realms interesting<br /> is the discovery of the ancient.<br /> Share this:TweetWhatsAppTelegramEmail
