Salvatore and numerous computer role-playing games, including Pool of Radiance (1988), Baldur's Gate (1998), and Neverwinter Nights (2002).Īccording to the setting's creators, the 'Forgotten Realms' is the name of a fantasy world that exists somewhere beyond the real world.
The Forgotten Realms is one of the most popular D&D settings, largely due to the success of novels by authors such as R.
Role-playing game products have been produced for the setting ever since, as well as various licensed products including novels, computer role-playing game adaptations (among them the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game to use graphics), and comic books. Greenwood brought the setting to the D&D game initially as a series of magazine articles several years later, and the first Realms game products were released in 1987. The Forgotten Realms (commonly referred to by players and game designers alike as simply 'The Realms') is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons ( D&D) fantasy role-playing game, created by game designer Ed Greenwood, around 1967 as a setting for his childhood stories.
