One of the key features of the story is that you discover a lost city in the jungle that belonged to an ancient Chultan kingdom. I love that they actually exist in reality.Ĭhris Perkins: Take, for example, the current story, Tomb of Annihilation, which takes place in Chult. People theorize about it but it’s still a giant mystery. There’s this thing that actually exists in the world that people don’t know how the hell it was done. It sparks … It makes it like we … As we do our little fearful quest through the world, to make everything known is to like create this sense of security but when something is completely unknown, it’s like, “Whoa, where was that? Where did this come from?” It’s why I love things like the pyramids. You've read all the books and you've never heard of this thing before and nobody has because I love that.Īdam Lee: I think when something is mysterious and unknown, it fires up the imagination. I’m going to put some things in The Forgotten Realms that you don’t know about. We’re like we want to put something in the realms that is truly forgotten, that you don’t know about.Īdam Lee: As I’m going along in my D&D career here, I’m going to get a chance to actually write my own adventures and work with the team and create these things. It’s out of the lore and what the heck is that thing? Richard and I, we talked about this. It’s something that is completely forgotten and you don’t know what it is. It’s just so big.Īdam Lee: I want to be like what … in there, there’s something that’s sticking out of their ground and that cannot be explained and it’s not a part of any realm you know of or you've read about in the books. I think when we worked with it, we just tried to like squeeze the best out of it but it’s so sprawling.

Richard Whitters: It also could harbor things that are kind of like cannon from different editions and all kinds of things like that. What is that and what mysteries does it contain? That’s sort of a key theme of the setting. You can look to pretty much any place where civilization resides now and say there was something else there before. That’s sort of a template that carries through the entire setting. If you delve into Waterdeep far and deep enough, you will discover these forgotten realms underneath it. It has hundreds of thousands of people living in it but what people don’t realize and what few people in Waterdeep actually remember is that it is built on top of a dwarven city, which was built on top of an elven city. It is a metropolitan coastal city on the Sword Coast. Richard Whitters: It’s this giant playground and I think that gets us … With what we’re dealing with now, it’s sort of like how do we put it to full use?Ĭhris Perkins: Let’s take, for example, the city of Waterdeep. I spoke with D&D’s principal story designer Chris Perkins, senior art director Richard Whitters and creative writer Adam Lee about what the The Forgotten Realms really are.Ĭhris Perkins: The Forgotten Realms, as a setting, it’s an old medieval world, so old that all of the civilizations that we know exist in the world today are built upon the bones of empires and civilizations that the world has forgotten about. Now, if you're a new player, you may not have a clear picture of what they are and if you're an old school Dungeons & Dragons player, you might just be surprised about what new things may be discovered. Much of D&D’s fifth edition books take place in The Forgotten Realms. What Are the Forgotten Realms in Dungeons & Dragons? Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

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