Forgotten Realms

Created by author and game designer Ed Greenwood as his personal campaign and detailed in a long series of articles in Dragon Magazine, The Forgotten Realms is a high fantasy world - magic is powerful, legendary monsters are commonplace, and gods often intervene directly in mortal affairs. It has become the most popular D&D setting from the late 1980s onwards and is the default setting for most adventures released for D&D 5th Edition, though more recent books have shifted to reference the wider multiverse.