Ed Greenwood created the Forgotten Realms, and his latest DMsGuild publication, one co-written with Gamehole Con director and lawyer Alex Kammer and D&D Adventurers League author Alan Patrick is out.
Thay Land of the Red Wizards offers 108 pages of insight into the magical lands where undead armies march.
As the blurb says, Thay is uncomfortably close and distant at the same time. It’s the scary empire that might bring doom. It’s also a place of rich culture and a secret that even the goddess Mystra helps keep.
Ed Greenwood and the co-authors have written the guide to be a resource not just for Forgotten Realms DMs but for players too.
As a gazetteer, it talks about the people and places of the Land of the Red Wizards, and it contains some impressive cartography.
The DMsGuild preview showcases pages on Thayan Military Might, of Szass Tam’s mindless legions of horror but also of those that support them, so the Red Wizards’ forces are suitably diverse and flexible as any general would require. These forces include the feared Thayan Knights, and the supplement has rank insignias for the military.
As for the dreaded Probity Corps, the guide begins with;
Pervasive undead performing manual labor or march-ing to war are facts of everyday life in Thay. The same can be said of the ever-present guards and patrols conducted by the Thayan Knights and other militia. However, for each and every citizen of Thay, the most terrifying branch of the Thayan government is unques-tionably the Probity Corps – the secret police of Thay.
This innocuous sounding bureau is a source of daily anxiety for all members of the highly structured and stratified Thayan society because agents of the Probity Corps are immune to any and all social or political barriers. Reporting to Szass Tam directly, Probity Corps agents ghost through Thayan society and government on their merest whim. Known more colloquially as the “inquisition,” agents of the Probity Corps can be anywhere at any time.
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- DMsGuild’s Thay Land of the Red Wizards
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