Dungeons & Dragons – Both the Forgotten Realms Players Guide & Adventure Guide

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Both the Forgotten Realms Players Guide & Adventure Guide Release November 11, 2025

The Forgotten Realms have long been one of the most popular adventuring spots for D&D players. From the Moonshae Isles in the Feywild to the notorious Baldur’s Gate along the Sword Coast, it is a well-known world-setting positively brimming with legends, history, and rich lore designed to draw adventurers back over and again. Not just one but two books will be released November 11, 2025: The Forgotten Realms Player’s Guide and The Forgotten Realms Adventure Guide.

The Forgotten Realms Player’s Guide has been designed specifically for players and will serve as a companion to the Player’s Handbook, providing a deep dive into the world and lore, the deities, eight new subclasses, new spells, and an entirely new system for spellcasting called circle casting. Circle casting will provide spellcasters opportunities to combine their magical efforts and empower their magic through group casting. Though this book may have been designed for players, it’s also an indispensable tool for DMs as well, providing opportunities for world-building and adventure building within the Realms.

• College Of The Moon (Bard)
• Knowledge Domain (Cleric)
• Purple Dragon Knight (Fighter)
• Oath Of The Noble Genies (Paladin)
• Winter Walker (Ranger)
• Scion Of The Three (Rogue)
• Spellfire Sorcery (Sorcerer)
• Bladesinger (Wizard

Designed more specifically for DMs, The Forgotten Realms Adventure Guide focuses on five distinct campaign locations, providing insight into the differences between each one and offering campaign and gameplay variety to suit different types of play. Have a group that prefers the magic and whimsy of the Feywild? Drop them down in the Moonshae Isles. Survival horror reigns supreme in Icewind Dale. Each one of the five different settings explores a different type of fantasy, moving games beyond the typical places explored along the Sword Coast, like Neverwinter and Baldur’s Gate, for example. These adventures are also relatively short, which allows DMs to grab them and get started quickly, or, as noted above, encourage other players around the table to consider taking up the mantle of DM and run an adventure for everyone.

So, why not make this all one book? The answer is actually simple. The Forgotten Realms Adventure Guide contains information on adventures and campaigns that DMs might want to hold close to the vest, keeping their adventures spoiler-free for curious players who will be tempted to read beyond the player-specific material. Either way, both books will make excellent additions to growing libraries for DMs and players alike.

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