The
Forgotten Realms are a
fictional world created by author and game designer
Ed Greenwood for the
Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.
Originally designed as Greenwood's personal campaign and detailed in a long series of articles in
Dragon magazine, it became the setting most popular with D&D gamers in the
1990s.
Its fame has been boosted by dozens of novels (including the exploits of the famous
drow hero Drizzt do'Urden) and the series of CRPGs
Baldur's Gate and
Icewind Dale[?].
The Realms are home to diverse races and cultures, from arctic dwarves to Egyptianlike Old Empires.