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Cult of the Dragon are basically "Space Wolves 40K" of forgotten realms. Less is more when it comes to the theme I'd say...

It always is surprising when these long/lived characters never bring up crazy things that have happened during their lives. You’d think at some point Minthara would mention, even casually how she had to retract herself how to do magic during the time of troubles or something.

The Cult of Elemental Evil, came from 1st Ed AD&D, and had ties to Loth and the such. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Temple_of_Elemental_Evil#:~:text=History%20of%20the%20temple,-The%20temple%20referenced&text=In%20566%20CY%2C%20forces%20of,to%20operate%20with%20increasing%20frequency.

Organized play has always been part of the hobby. Ignoring that the original adventure modules were tournament modules, the RPGA was kind of a juggernaut of organized play, complete with a wide assortment of "Living" persistent campaigns in the Realms and Greyhawk if you wanted to engage even further. So, Adventurers League probably wasn't so much a riff on Pathfinder Society as a resurrection/reboot of the RPGA--but Pathfinder Society undoubtedly showed WotC that organizaed play still had a viable place in the market, even if they didn't know exactly what to DO with it.

More lore videos please!

Would love more about nightmare parade

The reminder to sub, so for people like me that are binge watching D&D lore videos. randomly land here and realize there is a "new" kid on the block making awesome lore videos. So thank you and here is my sub :)

This video was a ten minute disclaimer. You have good stuff to talk about, so talk about it already.

Strangest D&D location was YIG - You Independent Grocer. A friend of mine had the architectural blueprints for a supermarket which he used as a "dungeon" and we travelled to this alternate dimension filled with fantastical creatures and strange equipment. We made use of Holy Water in spray bottle to great effect, amongst all sorts of other strange pieces of equipment.

"It doesn't think, it doesn't feel It doesn't laugh or cry All it does from dawn till dusk Is make the soldiers die." -Phyrexian Hulk

Dungeons of Drakkenheim have the BEST faction system.

11:15 It’s cause they keep back stabbing each other too much to get their collective shit together xD

10:33 I miss those 3rd edition days. The Serpent Kingdoms book was one of my favorite books and I got super into Yuan-ti and all them scalies 🐍🦎🐍🦎🐍

Luskan has been underused and I think it's because Wizards remembered that Skullport exists in 5E. Gladiatorial pits? Pirates? Ne'er-do-wells around every corner? Yes please! I like the Sleeping Dragon and in my head canon it's an escape pod to a very large Spelljammer. No one has figured out how to turn on the homing beacon yet, the original occupant might not have known how to fix it, there could be many reason's it's chilling on Faerun.

Would love some longer videos . Keep it up these are awesome

why Calimshan which is NOT a continent, instead of Zakhara which is at least a sub-continent. The real forgotten location would be Malatra (the Living Jungle Setting), but perhaps that belongs in a video about little known lands like Osse, or Anachrome

If you want to know more about Kara Tur, explore the lands of Rokugan in "Legend of the Five Rings". It's literally the same setting.

Spot on. 100% agree. No screen visual will ever compete with what i experience in my mind. Like you say in your video, I just want technology to make the DMs role easier so more people can DM, maybe even me god forbid.

Ham fisted? Not really, why did you skip Zakhara?

What a dumb video. D&D is more than just it's published settings.

Please stop whining about cultural inaccuracies it sounds stupid all role playing are inaccurate stereotypes, and the people who complain the loudest don't play or buy the games anyway.

Please stop saying Mawz'-tik-a it's mahz-TEE-ka (FRCS 2nd ed. page 5)

Fantastic video, you deserve at least 1000 times more subscribers.

Word to the Wise: If anybody in Faerun were interested in researching the manufacturing of Flesh Golems or Crawling Claws (or perhaps even building a horde of them) the limb machine in Stormkeep would be an invaluable manufacturing resource. 🧙‍♂

Interesting, I already knew only about Larloch. He has a deep story.

Storm Keep Looks like Aku from Samurai Jack.

So, the mountain orcs aren't from that orcworld? I always thought they both were but that they just came at different times and in different places.

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Didn't hear of those areas aside Dragonspear, very interesting

YAY new video I love Forgotten Realms and D&D Lore its just so wast and has everything including a kitchen sink thanks for giving me another location for my games. edit Wow Ed Greenwodd and Jason Carl wrote a book in 3.5 ? ! I kind of want to read it now !!!

8:00 Again, Forgotten Realms isn't real life Asian countries, but a made up fantasy world merely INSPIRED by the mythology of those countries. There isn't a controversy here guys.

4:53 Yeah...because it's a made up fantasy world. It's by definition, not realistic, but fantasy. -__-

Quaggoths are really weird. Are they humanoid bear-cats?

1:47 Do we have any way to know what the Orc homeworld is?

1:07 Krusk is a half-orc

Shouldn't this have been called the forgotten realms of the forgotten realms?

I'm pretty sure we're somewhere in Osse. Our DM wanted to use FR pantheons and cosmology, but didn't want Faerun's history and baggage.

There’s also the moonshae isles, that’s supposed to be the ancient celts

As a a middle eastern person, Im not sure what's the difference between the stereotypical European depiction of the sword coast and the stereotypical depiction of any of the other places. It's all just cool make believe caricatures 🤷🏾‍♂️

What i don't get is that dnd is at its base European and very ham fisted about that with knights and most of the weapons being very poor representation of European history. Why do people care that it was just as bad with other history so long as it's equally pulp fiction-fantasy? Why is it wrong to celebrate other cultures in that inaccurate fantasticle fashion?

good video

This will be unpopular opinion, but personally I don’t care much about stereotypes, if they aren’t malicious of course. Those settings, lore, etc aren’t about real people, they’re inspired by, poorly inspired, but still. It’s just for fun and cool factor. If you want to learn about any culture, you’re better off watching documentaries, read books, etc, not rolling dice to slay imaginary monsters. I’m from Eastern Europe and have seen a lot of stereotypes about our cultures, bad ones especially, believe me. Although, it’s infuriating that the region is mostly associated with Russia by the majority of other people, but all the media about “Crazy Red Ivans" makes me laugh. Okay, so you, westerners, could better understand, the Black Widow movie was absolute garbage of stereotypes when it comes to representing Slavs, but for many it was hilariously stupid and funny how they tried. It doesn’t mean, that authors shouldn’t work hard, when studying the culture they take inspiration from. Even stereotypes can be used and rewritten in interesting ways. All depends on author’s intentions and effort. Also, I don’t like the idea, that only the culture’s heritages can create any media about said culture. Anyone can do a poor job. As much as I would love to see works written by authors from my nation, you don’t have to be one to write about/be inspired by us.

When we do play in the realms. We never leave the Shining South area, unless it's to go further South or East. I even created a couple of new deities for Halruaa, and set-up a nice little Planar gate to the Shadow Plane. We don't do 5E, just take somethings from it. Still 2E for us. My Halruaans have discovered a way past Vancian magic, and cast whatever spells they know, they just suffer Strain from casting. I had to differentiate the land of mages into their own actual culture, based around a magical nation of Nubia.

Panasian combinations can be done in a really cool way. Looking towards ATLA for my favorite. I'd definitely love more D&D lore!

What about the lands north and south of Maztica, the Great Glacier, Zakhara, or Osse? Let's talk about THEM too

More please!

So much garbage

also you might like forgotten planets of forgotten realms