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From the earliest days to the present age, the history of the Forgotten Realms is exciting, rich in detail and totally engrossing. Take a trip into the past, whether it's thousands and thousands of years, or just yesterday.
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- D&D’s Conflicted View on Canonical timelines
- Time in The Forgotten Realms: Dale Reckoning
- The D&D 5E Adventures, in Chronological Order
- Timeline For D&D Fr Hardback and Boxed Set Adventures, by Year Dr
- Naming The Years and The Roll of Years
- Resources: Official D&D Podcasts on Timeline
- My List of Notable Years in The Fr Timeline
The 5E D&D team struggles with canon for good reasons. They want the world to feel deep and real, and to have events matter. Simultaneously, they don’t want us to pick up a product and feel like it is out of date, or that we must play it in a certain order. The world should feel accessible and flexible, easily fitting a DM’s needs. 5E products have...
In the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, the years are typically expressed as a number followed by DR, such as 1385 DR. There are many other calendars used by different Faerunian cultures, both current and ancient. For example, Waterdeep and areas in the North sometimes use NR (Northreckoning), while the people of Shou Lung use the Shou Year. Late...
Let’s simply order them, note the year, and explain this all later! Out of the Abyss (1485 DR or later – perhaps end of 1486) Hoard of the Dragon Queen and Rise of Tiamat (1489 DR) Storm King’s Thunder (1490 or 1491 DR) Lost Mine of Phandelver (Starter Set) (1491 DR) Dragons of Stormwreck Isle (Starter Set) (1491 DR based on pregens) Princes of the...
1357 DR – First edition’s “Grey Box” Forgotten Realms Boxed Set setting takes place. 1358 DR – Time of Troubles, when the gods lose immortality and walk the land. 1367 DR – Second Edition‘s FR boxed set takes place. 1370 DR – Living City organized play campaign events take place around this time, set in Raven’s Bluffin Vesperin (east of the Dalelan...
Starting in the year -700 DR, each year has a distinct and often poetic name, such as “1385 DR – Year of the Blue Fire,” when the Spellplague begins. The names of years both past and future were written by two prophecies from different eras. The first comes from Augathra the Mad around -400 DR, the second from Alaundo the Seer (of Candlekeep fame) ...
The D&D Podcast has an amazing segment called “The Lore You Should Know,” and a listing of episodes and subjects can be found here. This particular episode covers the FR Timeline. Two episodes cover Holidays and Calendars: https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/dratalk_courtswords100 https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/james-damato-one-sho...
The best source for the FR Timeline is the incredible hardback tome, The Grand History of the Realms, by Brian R. James and Ed Greenwood. The work is all the more incredible because it began as Brian, under the online name Iakhovas, compiling a 100-page pdf of the timeline. Richard Baker and Chris Perkins worked with Brian and Ed and others to turn...
The Forgotten Realms is a fictional alternate world that has been published as a campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), Advanced Dungeon & Dragons (AD&D), Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition (2e), 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons (3e, v3.5), and 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons (4e...
Aug 8, 2022 · The history of the F orgotten Realms is full of cataclysmic god wars, fallen empires, and magical apocalypses, resulting in a world full of ancient ruins and scattered city states between large stretches of abandoned wilderness – the perfect setting, in other words, for the classic D&D adventuring party.
History—From the dawn of the creator races to the present age. Deities—The deities of all the pantheons and races. Cosmology—The many planes of existence, how they connect, and who inhabits them. Magic—Magic in the Forgotten Realms, be it arcane, divine, or stranger arts. Items—Gems and jewelry, poisons and potions, weapons and armor ...
Forgotten Realms is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game. Commonly referred to by players and game designers as "The Realms", it was created by game designer Ed Greenwood around 1967 as a setting for his childhood stories. [1]
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May 8, 2023 · Explore the rich world of the Forgotten Realms in Dungeons and Dragons with this ultimate guide. Learn about the history, geography, and important characters of this iconic campaign...
