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Adventurers' Tales

Coming soon: The Forgotten Realms Wiki Presents Juniper's Companion to Venturesome Cookery, a Dungeons & Dragons® saucebook of delicious dishes taken from the Forgotten Realms. It's chock-full of recipes, Realmslore, cooking tips, kitchen-ready spells and magic items, and more and told by Juniper Churlgo with notes by editor Monoselic Wordwrangle. And it's written by our own Artie Pavlov and Brad "BadCatMan" McGrath, Jason "Lhynard" Labonte, and Alex "Arodp88" Paul, plus a foreword and lore by Ed Greenwood and Steven E. Schend, with cover art by Brian Valeza and all-original interior art.
By fans, for fans, and your friends and family. The next time you're cooking, we might have something tasty and venturesome for you to try out. And when we say venturesome, we mean it: we have recipes for snail, snake, and even stirge (the stirges were tricky to catch). Coming to DMs Guild some day soon!

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Earthfast was a shield dwarven city in the Earthfast Mountains between Impiltur and the Vast, stretching from a high mountain valley down to the Earthroot area of the Underdark. It was a war-torn place, under constant siege from orcs and goblins in the 14th century DR. Though much of the city was abandoned, it was home to Alagh Rorncaurak, the Battlecavern of Unquenched Valor, a vast chasm and natural cathedral to the god Clangeddin Silverbeard and a key defense of the city.

Unending war took a terrible toll on the dwarves. Many women and children were slain, leaving men who all honored their parents as war-heroes. Earthfast dwarves were battle-hardened veterans, grim and moody sorts who worked and fought in utter silence, seeing stealth as a virtue and vital defense. They were even head-hunters, seizing the skulls of foes and stacking them in tidy pyramids in a great cavern. The greater the foe, the better the skull.

Nevertheless, Earthfast was an honorable ally who would still come to another's aid. They were allies of Impiltur early in its history. Centuries later, after befriending the renegade "Mithril Princess" Alusair of Cormyr, who helped break the siege, Earthfast dwarves joined King Azoun IV in his Crusade against the Tuigan Horde, defending and saving all of Faerûn at high cost to themselves.

New & Upcoming Releases

Monster Manual 5th edition (revised) by Jeremy Crawford, F. Wesley Schneider et al. and officially published by Wizards of the Coast on February 18, 2025, is a core rulebook for the revised 5th-edition Dungeons & Dragons® rules, containing all the classic and new monsters, creatures, and non-player characters needed to run a campaign.

The Ultimate Fantasy Bestiary

This revised and expanded Monster Manual contains a horde of creatures for the fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons® game—a monstrous menagerie of familiar favorites like dragons, giants, and mind flayers, plus a host of new monsters like the arch-hag, the blob of annihilation, and the vampire warlock.

Populate your worlds and adventures with the hundreds of monsters provided and let their stories, illustrations, and easy-to-use stat blocks fuel your D&D adventures for years to come.

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The Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set is the official beginner's guide to 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons. As well as a rule book, the boxed set contains a set of polyhedral dice, characters sheets, and the Lost Mine of Phandelver adventure.

The adventure takes place in the Neverwinter region of the Sword Coast, and the characters are tasked to escort mining supplies to Phandalin. Rumored to exist somewhere near Phandalin is the legendary Wave Echo Cave. During their escort quest, the adventurers are quickly assaulted by the Cragmaw tribe of goblinoids. They later find out that the dwarf who set them on the task, Gundren Rockseeker, has been captured by the same tribe that assaulted them. Their task is to rescue Gundren, and find out what he has learned about the mysterious cave. Throughout their adventure, the characters can seek out the Forge of Spells or even take on the young green dragon, Venomfang.

Today in the Realms...

...it is 11 Kythorn, or the 11th of the Time of Flowers. Selûne is a waning crescent moon 🌘. On this day:

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Well met, traveler! This wiki covers the rich and popular Forgotten Realms campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons from TSR, Inc. and Wizards of the Coast, including Realmslore from the Oriental Adventures, Al-Qadim, Maztica, The Horde, Planescape, and Spelljammer settings, covering sourcebooks, novels, video games, comics, and more across all editions. See the aims and scope of this wiki here.

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