Franchise / Forgotten Realms

Forgotten Realms is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. It was originally created by author and game designer Ed Greenwood as a setting for his own stories, but after he discovered D&D he adapted it to the game system. Beginning with a one-page write-up on the curst in Dragon #30, he produced dozens of articles that delved into the history, personalities and creatures of the land. When TSR decided to add another official campaign setting to Greyhawk, Dragonlance, and Mystara, they asked Greenwood if his clearly well-thought out world was available, and he agreed to release it to them (albeit with him maintaining editorial control). With its first release as a boxed set in 1987, "The Realms" became the most popular setting with D&D players.

Works that are set in the Forgotten Realms include:

Comic Books

• Advanced Dungeons And Dragons
• Dungeons And Dragons Cutter
• Forgotten Realms
• Legends of Baldur's Gate: A Spin-Off series of the Baldur's Gate video game franchise, which focuses on an adventuring company based from the eponymous city that includes the Breakout Characters Minsc and Boo.

Film

• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: A Continuity Reboot of the original film series. Here, a charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

Literature

• The Avatar Series: Following the Time of Troubles, the death of old Gods and the rise of new ones.
• Baldur's Gate: An adaptation of the popular video games.
• Brimstone Angels: Ongoing post-Spellplague series starring a tiefling warlock and her companions, plus heavy involvement of Nine Hells politics.
• Counselors and Kings: A generally well-regarded trilogy set in The Magocracy of Halruaa, one of the Realms' less-explored regions.
• The Cleric Quintet: A, well, quintet following the early years of the priest Cadderly Bonaduce. Spun off from The Legend of Drizzt by the same author.
• The Druidhome Trilogy: A trilogy following up from the The Moonshae Trilogy by Doug Niles.
• The Elminster Series: An ongoing saga written by Greenwood himself, starring his Creator's Pet Elminster of Shadowdale.
• The Finder's Stone Trilogy: A book trilogy about an amnesiac swordswoman and her dinosaur-man companion.
• The Harpers: A series about the adventures of selected members of the titular bardic (but not limited to) spy organization.
• The Legend of Drizzt: R.A. Salvatore's flagship novel series chronicling the adventures of chaotic good drow ranger Drizzt Do'Urden.
  • The Dark Elf Trilogy: Serves as a sort of prequel that focuses on Drizzt Do'Urden's past.
  • The Icewind Dale Trilogy: First introduced Drizzt.
  • Legacy of the Drow Series: Even more Drizzt.
  • Paths of Darkness: Drizzt and friends with the crystal shard. Again.
  • The Hunter's Blades Trilogy: Drizzt versus more orcs than in The Lord of the Rings films.
  • Transitions: Drizzt gets to meet three different kings.
  • The Neverwinter Saga: Drizzt alone and on the road.
  • Companions Codex: Drizzt and the Silver Marches against an alliance of enemies.
  • Homecoming
• The Moonshae Trilogy: The first trilogy written for the Realms and predating its first boxed set by a couple of months.
• Pool of Radiance: Three young people of various backgrounds team up to help restore the Moonsea city of Phlan.
• The Sellswords: A spinoff from the Drizzt novels starring his rival Artemis Entreri and the drow mercenary lord Jarlaxle Baenre.
• Shandril's Saga: A young orphan girl is given unlimited cosmic power and an army of people who want to kill her for it.
• Songs and Swords: A half-elf Harper agent and a Quirky Bard fight against a variety of conspiracies.
• Starlight and Shadows: A trilogy where a human berserker and a drow priestess must work together to obtain a powerful magical artifact.
• War of the Spider Queen: A six-part saga set in the Faerun's Underdark, includes more drow.
• The Year of Rogue Dragons: A trilogy chronicling the events of the titular year 1373 DR.

Tabletop Games

• Forgotten Realms
  • Lost Mine of Phandelver: Somewhere in the humble village of Phandalin lies a forgotten cave mine filled with untouched riches and magical treasures from ages past. And when a trio of dwarves manages to unearth an entrance to the mine with plans to reopen it, villainous forces begin to step in and terrorize the village with the goal of claiming the treasures of the mine for themselves. It now falls to a band of brave adventurers arriving in Phandalin to foil their plans and save the day!
    • Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk: Time and again mysterious obelisks have cropped up in various locations across Faerûn, and now one has been discovered near Phandalin! Adventurers must now return to the town as a mysterious obelisk releases a monstrous threat from beneath the earth.
  • Tyranny of Dragons: A dragon cult is determined to Take Over the World by freeing the dragon goddess Tiamat and unleashing her into the Material Plane. Adventurers must prevent the cult's vision of draconic tyranny from realizing by joining forces with the various factions of Faerûn.
  • Princes of the Apocalypse: Four apocalypse cults devoted to powerful elementals knowns as the Princes of Elemental Evil are building secret sanctuaries and outposts throughout the North, bringing terror and destruction across Faerûn. But unbeknownst to the adventurers determined to destroy the cults, an ancient evil is secretly pulling the strings on the cults for a far enigmatic purpose...
  • Out of the Abyss: Imprisoned by the drow within the Underdark, adventurers must find a way to escape their elven captors and return to the surface. Things get complicated when demons begin to invade the region, with the adventurers now having to push them back to the Abyss before they could reach the surface.
  • Storm King's Thunder: Hekaton, a storm giant king who rules over all giants, has mysteriously disappeared, leaving the giant races he usually holds in check free to launch an invasion across Faerûn. In turn, the smallfolk of Faerûn must now band together and resolve this crisis before they’re all crushed beneath the heel of the giants... both figuratively and literally.
  • Tales from the Yawning Portal: A collection of seven classic adventure modules from across D&D's history updated for the game's 5th Edition, with the Yawning Portal inn serving as the module's Framing Device.
  • Tomb of Annihilation: A deadly curse threatens the souls of those that have been raised from the dead. Adventurers must endure and survive the perils of the jungle island of Chult if they are to thwart the plans of an infamous lich responsible for the curse.
  • Waterdeep: Dragon Heist: A cache of embezzled gold lies hidden somewhere within the city of Waterdeep, and adventurers are thrust into a wild treasure hunt to find the secret vault that contains it.
  • Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage: Within the Yawning Portal inn lies an entrance to the iconic Mega Dungeon of Toril: Undermountain. Adventurers must brave through twenty-three levels of danger and treachery if they are to claim the treasures within and stand a chance against its mad ruler, Halaster Blackcloak.
  • Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus: When a neighboring city gets dragged off to the first layer of the Nine Hells, adventurers from Baldur’s Gate must partake on a harrowing journey to the Hells and back to save it and its people from infernal doom.
  • Dragon of Icespire Peak: The peace within the mining town of Phandalin is jeopardized by outside threats such as a white dragon swooping from atop the nearby mountains, a savage tribe of orcs, and other dangerous monsters. Sounds like the perfect challenges for a band of fresh adventurers to face to become heroes of the Sword Coast!
    • Beyond the Dragon of Icespire Peak: In this three-part Expansion Pack to Dragon of Icespire Peak, two rivaling evil cults have been secretly plotting to take over the Sword Coast. Meanwhile, the ruined town of Leilon is in the midst of reconstruction when word of the cults' activities within the region slowly begin to surface. To survive the impending danger, the townsfolk need the help of adventurers to put an end to the cults' insidious plans and save the Sword Coast from certain doom.
  • Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden: A curse of endless winter plagues Icewind Dale, threatening to turn the region into a frozen wasteland! Adventurers must scour the icy tundra for a way to lift the Everlasting Rime, as well as combat other threats that have surfaced in the wake of the curse.
  • Candlekeep Mysteries: A Genre Anthology module of seventeen mystery-themed adventures. Similar to Tales from the Yawning Portal, the library-fortress of Candlekeep serves as the module's Framing Device.
  • Dragons of Stormwreck Isle: Beyond the shores of the Sword Coast lies a small island where, according to legend, was formed from the endless conflict between metallic and chromatic dragons ages ago. There, a bronze dragon is determined to put the island's violent legacy to rest with the help of adventurers arriving in Stormwreck Isle in search of opportunity and fortune.

Video Games

• Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse
• Baldur's Gate: The definitive AD&D 2nd Edition Western RPG, revolving around the children of Bhaal, the god of murder. This is the game that made BioWare famous.
  • Baldur's Gate II
  • Baldur's Gate III: The third installment in the Baldur's Gate series, developed by Larian Studios and adapting the 5th Edition ruleset. Set over a century after the events of the second game, the story revolves around The Conspiracy with a mind flayer-led cult, as well as various adventurers that are infected by mind flayer tadpoles from the cult.
• Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, a hack-and-slash Spin-Off of the Baldur's Gate RPGs. Same name, same city, different story.
  • Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
• Demon Stone
• Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance: A co-op Action RPG based on The Legend of Drizzt series of books, but has no connections to Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance.
• Dungeons & Dragons Online — Since the 2012 Forgotten Realms Expansion Pack.
• Eye of the Beholder
• Most, but not all, of the Gold Box games.
• Icewind Dale
• Neverwinter Nights (AOL) a MMORPG released in 1991, whose title was reused for the better known single-player/LAN multiplayer videogame from Bioware.
• Neverwinter Nights, the king of D&D 3rd Edition CRPGs. Its engine was used in modified form in several later games including Knights of the Old Republic and The Witcher.
• Neverwinter Nights 2, its 3.5E sequel by Obsidian Entertainment.
• Neverwinter, a 4e-based MMO that vaguely follows up the above. Developed by Cryptic Studios using the same engine as Star Trek Online.
• Sword Coast Legends

Web Original

• The Adventure Zone: Balance takes place in Faerûn, though it's mostly In Name Only.
• Acquisitions Incorporated (Seasons 1-5 had originally been set in Nentir Vale, but have since been retconned to have always been in Faerûn)
  • Acquisitions Incorporated: The "C" Team
• Dice, Camera, Action!
• Force Grey