D&D 5E Chult: an island or a peninsula in 5e?

[Ancalagon]

Hello

Faerun has suffered greatly IMO (both "in game" and as a setting) from a series of cataclysm between each edition that were "needed" to change things to reflect how magic worked. Some of these changes were pretty gratuitous (to me) alteration of geography.

Now I an NOT familiar with the 4e realms, but I was given to believe that a great cataclysm, the spell-plague (right?) changed a lot of things - Halrulla was messed up, lands were devastated, latan sunk under the sea etc etc. One of those changes was that the Chult Peninsula became an island

However, in 5e another cataclysm (sigh) came and undid most of those geographical changes! Latan is unsunk, Halrulla is back etc etc.

However... no word if the "island-ification" process around Chult has also been reversed.

So... is there official word on if Chult is still an island or a peninsula again?

 

[discosoc]

There is no official word that I'm aware of, and it seems the designers intended to keep the world map pretty vague. I think they underestimated people's desire to have access to details.

 

[pukunui]

I'm experiencing some major deja vu here. I'm sure someone asked this same question not that long ago, but I can't seem to find it now. It is referred to as a peninsula in the SCAG, and Mearls confirmed that on Twitter when I asked him.

 

[hawkeyefan]

The SCAG has a small, two-paragraph blurb about Chult, which refers to the Chultan peninsula.

As far as I know, that's all we seem to have to go on until Tomb of Annihilation comes out.

 

[CapnZapp]

Hello

Faerun has suffered greatly IMO (both "in game" and as a setting) from a series of cataclysm between each edition that were "needed" to change things to reflect how magic worked. Some of these changes were pretty gratuitous (to me) alteration of geography.

Now I an NOT familiar with the 4e realms, but I was given to believe that a great cataclysm, the spell-plague (right?) changed a lot of things - Halrulla was messed up, lands were devastated, latan sunk under the sea etc etc. One of those changes was that the Chult Peninsula became an island

However, in 5e another cataclysm (sigh) came and undid most of those geographical changes! Latan is unsunk, Halrulla is back etc etc.

However... no word if the "island-ification" process around Chult has also been reversed.

So... is there official word on if Chult is still an island or a peninsula again?

My advice to you is to do what I am doing - that is ignoring any changes to geography since the excellent 3rd edition FRCS (and its support books).

However, in 5e another cataclysm (sigh) came and undid most of those geographical changes!

Two cataclysms are better than one. At least when the second one is tacit acknowledgement the first was stupid crap. In my case, it makes it much easier to justify ignoring both, since the end result is much less different than it would be if there was only one.

When it comes to specifics re: Chult; (a) I hope none of it matters, i.e. nothing in ToA depends on either geography, and (b) I'm gonna go with whatever the book says, and then pretend that is exactly what FRCS said...

 

[DEFCON 1]

This has also been discussed in the Lore You Should Know interview on the D&D YouTube channel about Chult. Chris Perkins confirmed that while it *was* an island in 4E because of the Abeir-Toril landswap (due to the removal of certain parts of the landmass, and the rushing in of water to replace it)... as soon as they swapped back it returned to being a peninsula. Mike's comment was just a case of not having remembered the switch back.

TLDR: It's back to being a peninsula in 5E.

 

[Libramarian]

I like island/peninsula ambiguity. You can send the PCs to "Monster Island" but tell them not to worry, it's just a name.

 

[Zardnaar]

Another vote for ignoring map changes after 3E FRCS.

A few towns in the north have been wiped out such as Lorkth.

 

[Staffan]

When it comes to specifics re: Chult; (a) I hope none of it matters, i.e. nothing in ToA depends on either geography, and (b) I'm gonna go with whatever the book says, and then pretend that is exactly what FRCS said...

Geography is probably going to be important, because during the stream they described it as having a pretty heavy hexcrawl element to it. Basically, PCs will start with a map that has the edges filled in, but will have to discover the rest as they go along.

 

[CapnZapp]

Geography is probably going to be important, because during the stream they described it as having a pretty heavy hexcrawl element to it. Basically, PCs will start with a map that has the edges filled in, but will have to discover the rest as they go along.

Sure, but for the purposes of this thread it might not matter whether it's an island or a peninsula

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