Forgotten Realms

The Forgotten Realms, to which this wiki is dedicated, is a campaign setting for Advanced Dungeon & Dragons, by the Wizards of the Coast, originally created as a private gaming world by Ed Greenwood but it has since become the most enduring campaign setting for AD&D. The primary focus of the setting is the supercontinent of Faerûn (in the past supplements for Kara-Tur, orientally styled lands to the east of Faerûn, and other continents were also published, but these parts of the setting have been discontinued by WotC), part of the world of Abeir-Toril, an Earth-like planet with many real world influences and similarities.

The Forgotten Realms setting owes a lot of its popularity to the many novels using the setting, like R. A. Salvatore's works detailing the life and adventures of the famed drow Drizzt Do'Urden, as well as computer games like Pool of Radiance, Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights.