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Posts under ‘Forgotten Realms’

Book Review: Realms of the Dead edited by Susan J. Morris

Genre: Shared World, Sword and Sorcery
Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Publication Date: January 5, 2010
ISBN-10: 0786953632
ISBN-13: 978-0786953639
The undead are strangely, eerily fascinating. Their variety, incomprehensible nature, and admixture of the real and unreal make these seemingly simple creatures into the most compelling of characters, even when they lack personality of their own. [...]

Book Review: The Edge of Chaos by Jak Koke

# Genre: Shared World, Sword and Sorcery
# Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
# Publisher: Wizards of the Coast; Original edition
# Publication Date: August 4, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0786951893
# ISBN-13: 978-0786951895
# Author Website: Jak Koke
The Edge of Chaos is a great recent addition to the Forgotten Realms mythos, in which a spellscarred rouge and a female devotee of [...]

Book Review: City of Torment by Bruce R. Cordell

# Genre: Shared World, Sword and Sorcery
# Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
# Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
# Publication Date: September 1, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0786951842
# ISBN-13: 978-0786951840
# Author Website: Bruce R. Cordell
City of Torment, by award-winning game designer Bruce R. Cordell, is the second book in his Abolethic Sovereignty trilogy set in the Forgotten Realms. In [...]

Book Review: The Restless Shore by James P. Davis

# Genre: Dark Fantasy, Shared World
# Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
# Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
# Publication Date: May 5, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0786951311
# ISBN-13: 978-0786951314
# Author Blog: Waiting for Autumn
What exactly could make the shore of Akanul so restless? Could it be monsters? Could it be a strange, secretive cult? Or could it be traveling [...]

Dungeons & Dragons Online goes Free-to-Play

A Dribble of Ink has all the details, but all I can say is Hooray!

Download and start playing HERE.

Free Fiction: Volo Breaks a Hot Tale by Ed Greenwood

At Gen Con Game Fair 2008, many fans of the Forgotten Realms setting joined up with Ed Greenwood at the Spin a Yarn seminar to brainstorm a few ideas for a short story. Here is Part One, and here is the listing page for all the parts.

Book Review: Downshadow by Erik Scott de Bie

# Genre: Shared World, Forgotten Realms, Sword and Sorcery
# Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
# Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
# Publication Date: April 7, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0786951281
# ISBN-13: 978-0786951284
# Author Blog: Sors Immanis et Inanis
# Author Website: Erik Scott de Bie
In Erik Scott de Bie’s third novel set in the Forgotten Realms milieu, Downshadow he [...]

D & D Ministry

As a Christian and a Dungeons and Dragons fan, I found this interview fascinating.

Demons have overrun a peaceful valley, dark forces have driven humans underground, and the only one who can save them is a wounded black unicorn. This is a Dungeons and Dragons campaign from the mind of a United Methodist minister. James Wyatt [...]

Book Review: City of the Dead by Rosemary Jones

# Genre: Shared Worlds, Forgotten Realms, Sword and Sorcery
# Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
# Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (June 2, 2009)
# ISBN-10: 078695129X
# ISBN-13: 978-0786951291
# Author Blog: Rosemary Jones
Rosemary Jones first appeared in the Forgotten Realms universe with her dungeon-diving novel (plus a little white dog) The Crypt of the Moaning Diamond. In her [...]

Must Read Article for Forgotten Realms Fans

Fantasy Book Critic contributor David Craddock, just posted the first of his series on shared worlds fiction. And who does he start with? Forgotten Realms of course. Read, “Sharing a World, Part 1“.

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