Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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Is every one anticipating the arrival of Ed Greenwood's latest work, a lushly illustrated guide to the Dalelands?
My self, I am hoping it will be available in print form on Amazon.
I will temper my wild speculations about the contents lest I provoke a wild squabble of opinion about this book.
I'm sure it will be a great lorebook. I have the book Volo's Guide to the Dalelands also designed by Ed Greenwood that i always like the serie and wonder how much different it will be.
I suspect there may a companion book at some point, "Volo's Guide to the Taverns and Pubs of the Dalelands", along with a companion book, "Elminster's List of the Taverns and Pubs that have repeatedly expelled Volo from their premises".
I had been looking forward to the release of the series - But personally I'm a bit frustrated by how the timeline has bloated as the first book in the four slated Dalelands books was initially promoted to be a Q1 release this year, with the 'Inn Sites of the Dalelands' aimed for Q2, 'Delves of the Dalelands' for the Q3 and the Adventures in the Dalelands book for for Q4.
Those latter books are now slated for '27 and '28, which suggests that there's been a major overestimation in their capabilities.
Or, there is an upper limit to how much Dale Lands lore Ed Greenword can produce in a set amount of time.
Mythmakers, the company producing the Realmsbound: Dalelands series, has far more people writing for them than just Ed. His name is attached to the product and he's definitely a major participant in the production, but the team consists of several writers from when the Forgotten Realms had regular novel releases - Erik Scott de Bie, Brian R. James and Steven E. Schend among them, to just point out some familiar names.
Either way - They've blown far passed their initial production slate and we can only speculate as to why. It could be scope drift, it could be major production issues, or it could be project costs unexpectedly bloating. The only visible and definitive thing that one can see is that the timeline for the releases changed drastically.
I'd love to see the finished products - I hope things go well, but I definitely feel a little wariness could be warranted.
Or.....we could blame the delay on that impish scamp of the Realms......Volo.
On EN World is a post about the book saying The print proofs have been created for the upcoming Forgotten Realms book "Ed Greenwood Presents: Guide to the Dalelands", so it shouldn't be much longer before it is released.
https://www.enworld.org/threads/cover-correction-on-forgotten-realms-guide-to-the-dalelands-book-nearing-completion.721194/
If they're at the proofing stage, you're still looking at months, depending on the printer's schedule and likely sea shipping time.