Remembered realms, eh? I’m not sure if I’ve heard of em.
I don’t get it.
I think it’s implying that most campaigns take place on the sword coast
This is a classic issue on world building, you plan a whole and dangerous continent, but moving the PC means loosing reccurent NPCs and track of the ongoing conflict where PC are involved.
So you end up focusing on one city and it’s surrounding
They could also just make different adventures in different parts of the Faerun. But they’d have to actually update they’re lore then.
Probably refers to 90% of campaigns taking place on the Sword Coast
The one and only sourcebook for Fearun in 5e was just the swordcoast. Embarrassing. Farun is an entire planet!
Faerûn is a continent… Toril is the planet that it’s on.
… uhm… SEE, if they would have put out an actual Guide to Faerûn I wouldn’t have mistook it for Toril!
Is there a higher res version of the original map? Would love to learn more about broader Toril other than stumbling through the wiki.
Try this one. As the comments of the post say, it’s not entirely up to date, but it works well enough.
…new sourcebooks coming next year, but fourth-edition maps kind of butchered the realms and third-edition maps compressed them into a fantasy theme park: i appreciate the proper scale of the fifth-edition map even if broader setting resources mostly entail tracking down older reference material…
…fifth edition does offer officially-sanctioned sourcebooks for the moonshaes, border kingdoms, thay, chult, and icewind dale in addition to the sword coast, though; you just have to delve into the DM’s guild for adept and adventurers’ league material…
…third-edition maps do alright in a pinch as long as you double the distances…
There are versions out there but afaik it’s super awkward to find them, I’ll see if I can find the one I used a couple months ago again and send a link here if I do
nvm not as annoying to find as it was when I went looking, wotc posted a 4k version in July https://www.dndbeyond.com/resources/1782-map-of-faerun
There’s a big one by Mike Schley. Most smaller ones are relatively old or just crops of that one.