In 1989 a printing of trail maps for karatur appeared. Their fourth settingbased monstrous compendium thus covered a subsetting. While heroes, explorers, diplomats, and merchants have traveled beyond faerun, rare indeed is the person who has visited more than one particular region outside the commonly known lands. Episode 3 age of thunder in which i learn faerun, karatur, and zakhara arent separate continents and the sundering doesnt have much to do with the. Play still continues in this longrunning campaign, and ed also keeps busy producing realmslore for various tsr publications. It is part of the oriental adventures campaign setting and set in karatur. Box sets ruins of myth drannor box set the box has seen better days ruins of undermountain box set ruins of zhentil keep box set nethril empire of magic box set kara tur box. I started reimagining karatur for 5e within certain stipulations and well, the. Forgotten realms i integrate other stuff into it, and have read about 20 of the novels so far. Forgotten realms karatur volume ii a complete guide to the jungle lands, the island kingdoms, koryo, kozakura, and wa. I am posting these here to see if anyone wants them before i post them to ebay. It is the brainchild of canadian writer ed greenwood who started developing it as a setting for fantasy stories when he was just eight years old. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Karatur roughly corresponds to ancient east asia in the real world, and many countries, places and peoples can find common ground with real life examples.
I started reimagining karatur for 5e within certain stipulations and well, the typing went on and on so posting here for your enjoyment and feedback. Buy karatur trail map forgotten realms from tsr part of our role playing games collection. Even the wisest scholars of candlekeep know only a little of what lies beyond the realms of faerun. Mad monkey vs the dragon claw was released for the karatur setting as a forgotten realms product. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new books every 1, 2, or 3 months new customers receive 15% off your. The eastern realms campaign setting is a boxed set in the oriental adventures style. The eastern realms boxed set, also for forgotten realms, was billed as an expansion for oriental adventures. In 1990 the maps were again included in the forgotten realms atlas. Karatur inhabitants locations organizations settlements roads mountains forests.
Kara tur was an original setting at first, just like dragonlance and greyhawk. The karatur trail map complies information from all past karatur products into one comprehensive and authoritative map of the eastern realms. Karatur, world of eastern mystery, is on the far side of the planet from the forgotten realms campaign setting, but the two cultures interact only if you want them to. Faerun is an open land full of kingdoms and empires, large and small, and scattered citystates and villages struggling to make their way in a landscape that can be unforgiving wilderness one mile and cosmopolitan city the next. Karatur, the eastern lands of the forgotten realms. In that year tsr released a boxed set with two books detailing the campaign setting and maps. It describes the eastern land of karatur and its geography, population, society, government, history, languages, and opportunities for adventure. Also released for second edition was a volume for the monstrous compendium series. The eastern realms details a forgotten realms campaign. This is the final version of my old shaareach map, which i had gotten done and then just never finished. Mc6 monstrous compendium karatur appendix 2e not just more monsters mysterious, sinister creatures of the orient.
Karatur is described in the province book from the 1986 swords of the daimyo module. Dwarves, sometimes called the stout folk, are a natural humanoid race common throughout parts of toril as well as abeir. The eastern realms details a forgotten realms campaign setting for use with oriental adventures, which describes the eastern land of karatur and its geography, population, society, government, history, languages, and opportunities for adventure. Karatur series librarything catalog your books online. The forgotten realms atlas is a softcover manual detailing maps, locations, cutaway diagrams, backgrounds and more.
All geographical and political features of note are included on a 36 by 57 sheet suitable for use in gaming as as a wall poster. We have zoom, distance calculator, display of arearegions, marks selection, and more. The eastern realms details a forgotten realms campaign setting for. Karaturs cultures and peoples are fantasy analogues of medieval china, korea, japan, the ryukyu islands, tibet, and other regions of east asia. It was later placed on the planet toril, the planet of the forgotten realms campaign setting, and lies east of faerun. When the empire event brought the horde to the realms, interest in karatur also resurged, but that only lasted from 19901991, after which karatur would largely fade from public consciousness. Two 96page books describe the places, culture, politics, monsters, magic, people, relgions, and more, plus advice on running a longterm oriental adventures campaign, bringing characters from other worlds into karatur, and dimensional travel from karatur to other worlds. An expanded version of the karatur setting first described in oriental adventures, but now placed on toril, the same world as the forgotten realms. Waterdhavian nights, illustrated by various artists, was released in 1990.
Even the last few modules released using the rules introduced in oriental adventures were released under the forgotten realms logo, not the oriental adventures logo. Need help with forgotten realms lore about dragons, kara tur and the lost mine of phandelver. In 1987, karatur was placed on the same fictional world as the forgotten realms campaign setting. This is the official campaign setting for the oriental adventures rulebook. Inspire a love of reading with prime book box for kids discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new books every 1, 2, or 3 months new customers receive 15% off your first box.
It was only about a year later that it was officially tacked onto. It is the third major boxed set for the forgotten realms. Community forums pathfinder pathfinder adventure path rise of the runelords rotrl in the forgotten realms. Asia, was later the focus of its own source book karatur. Karatur, world of eastern mystery, is on the far side of the planet from the forgotten realms campaign setting, but the two cultures only interact if you want them to. Contains two 96page books volume i and volume ii, covering different geographic regions. Bringing back karatur would be a wonderful way for wotc to bring a lot more continued interest in the game if they release karatur as not only a forgotten realms subsetting, but release a guidebook on the web or within the pages of a karatur book on how to simply adapt it. Need help with forgotten realms lore about dragons, kara. Commonly referred to by players and game designers alike as the realms, it was created by game designer ed greenwood around 1967 as a setting for his childhood stories. Inspire a love of reading with prime book box for kids discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new books every 1. Mc6 monstrous compendium karatur appendix 2e wizards. Twentyfive issues were published in total, with the last being released in 1991. Some, like the legendary forgotten realms, are rich with storied history. I am dming a group of 6 players and while ive been playing various tabletop rpgs for over 15 years, ive almost never played or dmed in the forgotten realms.
Forgotten realms fantasy world map village map dungeon maps pathfinder rpg campaign ideas fantasy world map village map dungeon maps pathfinder rpg campaign ideas. Each issue contained twentysix pages, illustrated primarily by rags morales and dave simons. After 1990 karatur was a mostly discarded campaign setting. The nations, peoples, cultures, magic, and monsters of the oriental world are fleshed out, with plenty of advice on running long term campigns in the setting and on travel to and from other game worlds. In 1989, dc comics began publishing a series of forgotten realms comics written by jeff grubb. However, in 1988 it merged with forgotten realms and in the boxed set kara tur was introduced as the eastern realms. Dwarves are a short race, as their name implies, standing between 43 and 49 on average, with gold dwarves a bit shorter. Dwarf forgotten realms theofficialbestiary wikia fandom. Karatur trail map forgotten realms noble knight games. Two 96page books describe the places, culture, politics, monsters. Dwarves are a tough, traditionabiding folk known for their strong martial traditions and beautiful craftsmanship. Karatur karatur, world of eastern mystery, is on the far side of the planet from the forgotten realms campaign setting, but the two cultures interact only if you want them to.
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