Other entries focus on campaign villains present in the nentir vale region, among them the iron. This can be a major benefit, since a dm can learn all they need to know about the vale setting quickly, without having to handle the baggage of countless campaign books, novels, comics and video games. Two of the novels in the abyssal plague series are set in the forgotten realms. The nentir river is too big to freeze except for a few weeks in the coldest part of the year. The nentir vale is neighbored by the stonemarch to the west, the harken forest and the witchlight fens to the south, the dawnforge mountains. But when nentir vale had few described locations and a general premise of isolation, hence the points of light name i prefer for it, forgotten realms saw its known locations turn into wildmagic wastelands and wide open gaps above the underdark. Anyone running a nentir vale campaign with 5th edition rules. Thankfully, 5e can support any number of unique settings.
Nov 1, 2017 nentir and elsir vale in forgotten realms. The event revolves around the voidharrow, an entity from a dead universe that is unleashed across multiple worlds. The nentir vale is neighbored by the stonemarch to the west, the harken forest and the witchlight fens to the south, the dawnforge mountains to the east, and the winterbole forest to the north. Lets read 4e setting lore nentir vale nerath page 16. What this meant for the nentir vale is that everything in the world had a place within the cosmic struggle, even if you are only seeing it from the groundseye perspective of mortals in the countryside. The nentir vale is a northern land, but it sees relatively little snowwinters are windy and bitterly cold. No nentir vale campaign guide books for players or dungeon masters, but support content is there if you look for it. This can be a big help since creating a religion for your world can be lots of work. An ancient shifter tribe from the winterbole forest in the north of the nentir vale. Travel between communities is dangerous with bandits, vicious humanoids, and monsters of all kinds in control of the darkness between settled areas. We are considering a third volume for demigods and regional gods. Some are standard sword and sorcery environments, while others borrow oriental, central.
The chained god tharizdun stirs in his prison in pandemonium. Find the top 100 most popular items in amazon books best sellers. The nentir vale aka points of light, aka 4e core setting is a setting which has just enough fluff to justify the existence of everything within 4e i. I cant speak for nentir vale, as i believe that was a 4e thing, and i had to skip that like the plague, but if it had a good start, filled in some gaps, to give you a nice framework, and still left some nice regions open, to fill with your own dreams, and ideas, run with it.
Nentir vale in the forgotten realms fantasy map, dungeons and. The abyssal plague is a multiversespanning series of seven novels and one novella, published by wizards of the coast between 2010 and 2012. The only exception is the dark elf trilogy preceding the icewind dale trilogy. When 4e came out, there was a points of light style world in the back of the dms guide which was set in a place called the nentir vale. The other published modules other than the forgotten realms, eberron and dark sun specific modules are all assumed to take place in this same world. This is the final version of my old shaareach map, which i had gotten done and then just never finished. An arcane cataclysm and the merging of two worlds have ravaged the world, realigned its planes, and left nations in ruins. Salvatore, the dark elf trilogy collectors edition by r. Dungeon masters and other worldbuilders are actively encouraged to take elements from the 4e versions of other settings. The nentir vale is a northern borderland region of the continent of nerath. That is sorta what living in a world with a mythological worldview should feel like. According to christopher perkins, the nentir vale was originally conceived to be part of the forgotten realms setting, before being used as the main region for the points of light setting. I dont know if its typical, but its the way 4th edition core supplements are written. Hheroic tier adventures were designed for characters of level 110.
Tropes of the nentir vale morrus unofficial tabletop rpg news. The setting is intentionally incomplete, allowing the gaps to be filled by imported or homebrew content. One of the cancelled books from the first quarter of 2011 was a nentir vale gazetteer. Forgotten realms might help work as a conversion guide as it exists in both 4e form and 3e form as well as 2e and 1e version if anyone ever wanted to retroconvert nentir vale to an earlier system. The first official wizards of the coast 4th edition adventure published was keep on the shadowfell in 2008. I would rather play in the forgotten realms than in the nentir vale. Wizened emperors and upstart kings scheme and fight to secure a place in the. This location was the focus of many of 4es early adventure modules i. However, as 4th edition began to release newer products, more information was revealed, and the nentir vale setting became as complicated as those other settings, with a lot of interesting lore about its world and. Apart from one small valley nentir vale, 4th editions core books as opposed to, say, forgotten realms, eberron, or dark sun books didnt assume familiarity with a specific world. Salvaores forgotten realms series takes place in the universe of the same name belonging to the wildly popular dungeons and dragons franchise. Faiths of the forgotten realms 2 dungeon masters guild. Gift set, the lady penitent, shadowbane, and several more.
One of the biggest strengths of the nentir vale as a setting is the fact that theres less material written about it than other settings such as forgotten realms, eberron, greyhawk, dragonlance, dark sun and golarion. In contrast to, say, the forgotten realms, where deities often got into very. Now that i think of it, to date, most canon changes to forgotten realms have been additional rather than retroactive. In this book, youll find a codex of monsters and villains to throw at the heroes as they explore every nook and cranny of the nentir vale or, by extension, your home campaign setting. The vale has featured in the fells five comics, and the mark of nerath and the abyssal plague trilogy novels. The chronological order of the forgotten worlds books is the same as the publication order, with one exception. Oct 1, 2017 nentir and elsir vale in forgotten realms stay safe and healthy. In gates of madness demas is pushed through a portal into whatever world lay beyond. Sea of fallen stars the forgotten realms wiki books, races, classes. In sword of the gods hes in the forgotten realms, and.
Nentir vale in the forgotten realms forest falls, forgotten realms, art drawings, drawing. It is a time of magic and monsters, a time when only a few scattered points of light glow with stubborn determination amid a rising tide of shadows. The nentir vale is a new setting that was introduced as the default setting in. The nentir vale started its life as nothing more than few paragraphs describing the region around fallcrest, an example home base town in the dungeon. I would rather play in nentir vale than forgotten realms. According to christopher perkins, the nentir vale was originally conceived to be part of the forgotten realms setting, before being used as the setting for the. This is coming from a guy who has lived and breathed greyhawk for most of my life and a fair amount of forgotten realms. Nentir and elsir vale in forgotten realms com imagens.
Much more detail about the vale is included in monster vault. Bart carroll, producer at wizards of the coast, wrote. The nentir vale, the generic edition dungeons and dragons setting. If you compare the 4e fr to the 3e fr you can see a fairly big change in certain themes like elves being rebooted between the editions. She was not originally a forgotten realms god, having been retroactively imported over from the 4th edition nentir vale setting. The snowfang is currently led by chief udoros, who holds the snowfang blade and is widely believed to be the western claw, a savior figure of shifter prophecy. See the complete forgotten realms series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. This series can stand alone, or can be used before the p series and e series to begin a campaign from 1st to 30th level, focusing on the cult. Most of his ideas went to the mark of nerath novel. Faiths of the forgotten realms 2 soar into the heavens. Nov 01, 2017 nov 1, 2017 nentir and elsir vale in forgotten realms.
Keep on the shadowfell, thunderspire labyrinth, hammerfast, trollhaunt warrens etc. The tribe is currently based in gardmore, where it makes up a majority of the population. It also provides the celtic, greek, egyptian and norse pantheons of antiquity. The nentir vale is a setting where youll find small, isolated points of light surrounded by the darkness of the untamed wild. Discover the best forgotten realms in best sellers. Jun 24, 2014 it took a while, but i finally got a game together to try out 5e, which brings me to my next point. Even at lower levels, combat can take over an hour for a larger encounter. Apr 16, 2019 they pulled the readytoprint nentir vale gazetteer and instead pushed out a third 4e forgotten realms splatbook well, someone asked bill slaviksec about it, and he said the nentir vale gazetteer was not even started when they canceled it.