I’ve been playing and a DM for many years. I was an early 80’s player and have continued year-after-year.
Im building a home brew adventure designed in the forgotten realms and I realize that I have holes in my history.
I’ve read most of Greenwood’s Elminster books DR 200-700 and Salvatore Drizzt books DR late 1200-1400.
I’ve got the grey box set and 2nd Ed forgotten reams hardback…
Im looking if anyone has done a serious Index or history of all sources and materials and a chronology of events…
I have a group starting a new adventure and it includes a time travel device and situation that requires uncovering historical details of the Sword Coast as well as Shadowdale and the north and southern isles… pre-Harper and post Harper along with a historical background of Silvery Moon. trying to tie things together and I’m in a serious nerd out on events and making sure I’m respecting canon as I traverse a complex history. Anyone have leads on sources or a material back history.
Check out the Grand History of the Realms, a fan passion project that got picked up by Wizards and published in 2007. It's available on DMGuild and (free digitally to borrow) on Internet Archive. It goes back to -35,000 DR, but the really early entries (e.g. The Days of Thunder and the Dawn Ages) are pretty sparse, though it really does a great job of pulling together everything from the First Flowering (-24,000 DR) into the first Crown Wars and beyond. There are also plenty of Youtubers who've made forgotten realms content on the history of the FR, some of which isn't bad, and of course (as others have pointed out) there are the various FR wikis. :)
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I’ve been playing and a DM for many years. I was an early 80’s player and have continued year-after-year.
Im building a home brew adventure designed in the forgotten realms and I realize that I have holes in my history.
I’ve read most of Greenwood’s Elminster books DR 200-700 and Salvatore Drizzt books DR late 1200-1400.
I’ve got the grey box set and 2nd Ed forgotten reams hardback…
Im looking if anyone has done a serious Index or history of all sources and materials and a chronology of events…
I have a group starting a new adventure and it includes a time travel device and situation that requires uncovering historical details of the Sword Coast as well as Shadowdale and the north and southern isles… pre-Harper and post Harper along with a historical background of Silvery Moon.
trying to tie things together and I’m in a serious nerd out on events and making sure I’m respecting canon as I traverse a complex history.
Anyone have leads on sources or a material back history.
thanks everyone.
The forgotten realms wiki sounds like your first stop.
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page
Oh my!
—>me<— kid in candy shop.
see you on the other side Xalthu!
The FR wiki is indeed a wealth of information. Invaluable.
Check out the Grand History of the Realms, a fan passion project that got picked up by Wizards and published in 2007. It's available on DMGuild and (free digitally to borrow) on Internet Archive. It goes back to -35,000 DR, but the really early entries (e.g. The Days of Thunder and the Dawn Ages) are pretty sparse, though it really does a great job of pulling together everything from the First Flowering (-24,000 DR) into the first Crown Wars and beyond. There are also plenty of Youtubers who've made forgotten realms content on the history of the FR, some of which isn't bad, and of course (as others have pointed out) there are the various FR wikis. :)
D&D is a game, but it's not just a game. It's the ultimate storyboard, a campfire to share with friends, an imaginary call to imaginary arms and a ship to sail to horizons yet undreamt of...
DM Trevails Upon the Trackless Sea