Cards throughout Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms directly reference the Dungeons & Dragons franchise.
D&D references
Locations
Location
Description
Depicted or referenced in
Toril
The planet commonly referred to as "The Realms".
Faerûn
A sub-continent in the northern hemisphere of Toril.
Maelstrom
The main stronghold and seat of power for the storm giants on the floor of the Trackless Sea .
Island (#269)
The Underdark
The vast network of caverns and caves underneath Faerûn.
Swamp (#273)
Characters
Monsters
Monster
Magic subtype(s)
D&D equivalent
Description
Depicted or referenced in
Behir
Serpent
Behir
A great serpentine monster with twelve legs and electrical breath.
Tasha's hideous laughter
Beholder
Beholder
Beholder
A floating orb of flesh with a large mouth, single central eye, and many smaller eyestalks on top with powerful magical abilities. Iconic type for Dungeons and Dragons.
Baleful Beholder
Blue Dragon (Storm Dragon)
Dragon
Blue dragon
Orderly creatures that keep fairly well-ordered, hierarchical societies. More likely to be mocking and manipulative than outrightly cruel or murderous to 'lesser' creatures, aided greatly by their natural talents for hallucination.
Booster art
Bugbear
Goblin
Bugbear
A massive humanoid race distantly related to, but larger and stronger than, goblins and hobgoblins.
Den of the Bugbear
Dragonborn
?
Dragonborn
Humanoid dragons with dedication to honor.
Key art [3]
Drow
Elf
Drow
A generally evil, dark-skinned, and white-haired subrace of elves. From the Orcadian and Shetland dialects of the Scots language as an an alternative form of "trow "
Swamp (#273)
Flumph
Jellyfish
Flumph
Mysterious and benevolent creatures that drifted through the Underdark. They feed off the psionic energy of evil creatures, and often provide information to adventurers.
Flumph
Frost Giant
Giant
Frost giant
Large giants that can be found in most cold environments of Faerûn. Crude and of low intelligence, but cunning fighters.
Drizzt Do'Urden [2]
Halfling
Halfling
Halfling
Humanoid creatures similar in shape to humans, but around half their size. Based on J. R. R. Tolkien's hobbits .
Prosperous Innkeeper
Mind Flayer
?
Mind flayer
Humanoids with octopus-like, ridged heads and four tentacles surrounding a lamprey-like mouth. Using their psionic abilities, they seek to expand their dominion over all other creatures, controlling their minds to use them as hopeless slaves and devouring their brains for sustenance.
Booster art
Storm Giant
Giant
Storm giant
One of the most intelligent and respected races of giants, adapted to surviving in underwater conditions.
Island (#269)
Tiefling
Tiefling
Tiefling
Humanoids that descent from demons, devils or other fiends who had bred with humans. They have horns, non-prehensile tails, and pointed teeth.
Spells
Magic items
Maro's AFR Teaser
Mark Rosewater gave his traditional teaser with the following hints.[4]
First up, here are some things you can expect:
a new enchantment subtype —
a card granting -11/-11 —
a creature with a death trigger that make an equipment token —
a legendary creature that makes a legendary Hamster creature token —
something only seen previously in Un-sets comes to black border —
an artifact that’s a musical instrument that creates harmony counters —
a card that can keep your opponent from winning the game —
an ability that cares about attacking with a certain amount of power of creatures —
cards that let you decide where the story goes —
a card that creates a legendary creature token named Vecna —
Here are some snippets from rules text that appear in the set:
“Enchanted permanent is a Treasure artifact” —
“Ward – discard a card.” —
“Exchange your hand and library” —
“Skeletons, Vampires and Zombies” —
“Spend this mana only to cast Dragon spells or activate abilities of Dragons.” —
“for each different mana value among nonland cards in your graveyard.” —
“Then if you have fewer than three cards in hand, draw cards equal to the difference.” —
“Whenever you cast a creature spell that doesn’t share a creature type with a creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard,” —
“You may cast [THIS CREATURE’S NAME] from your graveyard if a creature not named [THIS CREATURE’S NAME] died this turn.” —
“When its power becomes 20 this way,” —
Here are some type lines from the set:
Creature – Dwarf Citizen —
Creature – Tiefling Wizard —
Creature – Human Elf Monk —
Creature – Elf Spider —
Creature – Gnome Warlock —
Creature – Halfling Rogue —
Creature – Bird Bear —
Legendary Creature – Dragon Knight —
Legendary Creature – Devil God —
Legendary Creature – Beholder —
References