Franchise file / Ed Greenwood
Forgotten Realms
D&D's busiest world
The Dungeons & Dragons setting behind Pool of Radiance, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights and Icewind Dale, and much of computer RPG history with them.
- 1988
- First game
- 3
- Series
- Ed Greenwood
- Creator
One world. Many eras.
Choose your chapter
The Gold Box. Pool of Radiance launched SSI's Gold Box engine, and a run of party RPGs followed. Westwood's Eye of the Beholder games took the same world into first-person dungeon crawling.
Start with Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of RadianceYour next late night
The essentials
Chapters
Series (3)
Baldur's GateCRPG series set in the Forgotten Realms. BioWare started it in 1998, then Baldur's Gate II followed, and Larian Studios brought it back with Baldur's Gate III in 2023.Baldur's Gate: Dark AllianceConsole action RPG spin-offs set in the Baldur's Gate world. Snowblind Studios made the first in 2001, and Black Isle Studios made the sequel in 2004.
A legacy worth revisiting
Faerun runs through RPG history.
Few settings have hosted as many landmark RPGs. SSI brought the Realms to computers with Pool of Radiance in 1988, BioWare's Baldur's Gate reset the genre a decade later, and Larian's Baldur's Gate III took the same world to a new generation in 2023.
- 1988 to 1992
- The Gold Box
- 1998 to 2002
- The Infinity Engine
- 2002 to 2023
- New adventurers
Scenes that stay with you
Inside the world
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