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The new Forgotten Realms books expand D&D 5e's maps to the Moonshae Isles, The Dalelands, and Calimshan

by: Randy - posted: 11/12/2025 1:30:00 AM
More On: Dungeons & Dragons

They're not boxing them together, but the new Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms books are pretty much a boxed set. Publisher Wizards of the Coast might call them something different, however. All of the following is available for purchase now on D&D Beyond:

  • Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerun is a 192-page "Player Expansion" | $29.99 digital | $49.99 physical | $59.99 discounted digital + physical bundle. It comes with:
    • 8 subclasses
    • 18 backgrounds
    • 34 feats
    • 19 spells
    • 3 magic items
    • 12 items
  • Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerun is a 288-page "Dungeon Master Expansion" | $39.99 digital | $59.99 physical | $74.99 discounted digital + physical bundle. It comes with:
    • 50+ adventures (read as: one-page adventure outlines)
    • 52 maps
    • 40 monsters
    • 7 magic items

Or you can pay more, for some reason, if you get the (non-discounted) Forgotten Realms Ultimate Bundle, which is $159.99 for both books' digital + physical versions, instead of the above's discounted $134.98.

There's more, though. Two more expansions for these expansions.

  • Netheril's Fall | $14.99 digital only | A 32-page digital expansion containing a handful of time-traveling adventure hooks, magic items, and creatures that go back in time to the Forgotten Realms' previous apex of civilization. It was a mage-run society, feeling good about life in their flying cities, until, of course, their society's sudden and violent demise.
    • 5 time-traveling adventures for levels 3, 5, and 8
    • 8 pre-cataclysmic magic items
    • 8 time-lost monsters
    • 26 maps of High and Low Netheril
  • Astarion's Book of Hungers | $14.99 digital only | Another 32-page digital expansion where you'll "fight, flirt, or feast" your way through ol' Baldur's Gate, vampire-style. And yes, Astarion from the Baldur's Gate 3 video game is a full-on NPC in this one.
    • 2 adventures filled with seductive, vampiric horrors
    • 1 updated Dhampir species
    • 5 villainous monster stat blocks
    • 16 vampiric feats
    • 3 vampiric-themed backgrounds
    • 1 Rat's Run tavern setting map

And another one, though it's not out until November 18:

  • Lorwyn: First Light | $14.99 digital only | This is a new Domain of Delight in the Feywild called Lorwyn-Shadowmoor. It'll have Fey-inspired:
    • Character options
    • Adventures
    • Monsters

My goodness. This is certainly enough material to keep any Forgotten Realms (and Forgotten Realms-adjacent) campaign going for literally years. It's startling how much is here—but even more startling when you consider how much is still left of the good ol' continent of Faerun. I have no doubt my MS Paint drawing is incomplete. But in the map of Faerun below, the blue areas are what was basically mapped out in previous D&D 5th Edition adventures, while the red areas are the new (to 5e) areas you'll be traveling to.

Those would be the Moonshae Isles in the west, the Dalelands in the east, and Calimshan to the south. Just look at how much is left to still explore between them: