Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms – Heroes of Faerûn

The Realms need heroes—not just adventurers.

Heroes of Faerûn is a player-focused Dungeons & Dragons expansion filled with character options rooted in the people, places, traditions, and stories of the Forgotten Realms.

Rather than simply giving your character more things they can do, this 192-page hardcover helps answer a more interesting question:

Who were they before the adventure began?

With new backgrounds, feats, spells, and other character-building options, Heroes of Faerûn gives players more ways to create heroes who feel like they actually grew up in this enormous, complicated world.

Build a Character Who Belongs Here

The Forgotten Realms is more than a backdrop.

Its cities, wilderness, organizations, histories, and cultures can shape who your character is—and why they became an adventurer in the first place.

Use the options in Heroes of Faerûn to build characters whose abilities and stories are connected to the world around them, whether you're imagining a Harper working quietly behind the scenes, a knight bound by duty, or a spellcaster shaped by a particular magical tradition.

The result is more material for character creation—and more story for the whole table to work with once the campaign begins.

More Options for Your Next Character

Heroes of Faerûn expands character creation with new player-facing material, including:

Backgrounds

Feats

Spells

Character options rooted in the Forgotten Realms

Story-driven tools for connecting characters to the setting

Use them when creating a new hero or as inspiration for developing a character whose connection to Faerûn matters beyond the name written beside “hometown.”

Start the Story at Session Zero

Some of the most useful character choices aren't about maximizing a build. They're the ones that give everyone at the table something interesting to work with.

Where are you from?

Who do you know?

What organization shaped you?

What do you believe?

And what happened that made staying home no longer an option?

By grounding character options in the Forgotten Realms, Heroes of Faerûn gives players and DMs more threads to pick up together from the very beginning of a campaign.

Pair It with Adventures in Faerûn

Heroes of Faerûn is the player-focused companion to Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn, the Dungeon Master expansion.

Heroes provides additional ways to create characters rooted in the setting, while Adventures gives DMs regions, maps, monsters, and adventures to put around them.

One builds the heroes.

The other gives them somewhere to get into trouble.

A remarkably efficient arrangement.

Why We Love It

It connects mechanics to story. New character options are more interesting when they tell us something about who that character is.

It makes the setting matter from the beginning. Faerûn doesn't have to be scenery behind an otherwise generic adventurer.

It's useful for session zero. Backgrounds, affiliations, histories, and character choices give players and DMs plenty to build on together.

It pairs naturally with Adventures in Faerûn. One book expands the world from behind the screen; the other gives players more ways to belong inside it.

Book Details

Title: Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms – Heroes of Faerûn
Product type: Player expansion
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 192
System: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition
Focus: Character creation, player options & Forgotten Realms worldbuilding
Includes: Backgrounds, feats, spells & additional character options
Setting: Forgotten Realms
Companion book: Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn – Dungeon Master Expansion

About Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons has been bringing adventurers together around the table for generations, creating worlds built from imagination, collaboration, improbable plans, and the occasional spectacularly unfortunate die roll. The Forgotten Realms is one of its most enduring settings—a sprawling fantasy world filled with cities, wilderness, factions, legends, and countless places for a new hero's story to begin.

Build someone who belongs in the Realms. Then see where they go.