The Realms are back: Dungeons & Dragons will be returning to the legendary Forgotten Realms city of Neverwinter this Summer. To mark the occasion, Wizards of the Coast has a whole slew of new Neverwinter-themed products, led by the he core RPG release, the D&D Neverwinter Campaign Setting.

Players can get their first taste of the newly revised campaign setting during the Neverwinter Game Day on August 6th at their local game stores. The event will serve as a character creation session, after which players will get their toes wet with a prelude adventure to the upcoming D&D Encounters season. Kicking off on August 10th, D&D Encounters Lost Crown of Neverwinter will also feature a brand new set of Neverwinter-themed Fortune Cards.

Casual games are in the mix as well. Attendees at GenCon this week will be getting the first experience of Neverwinter as they participate in the Neverwinter Mass Adventure. QR codes have been placed throughout the convention center, and must be scanned to progress in a quest for glory, power, or riches. For those who cannot make the con, there is always the Heroes of Neverwinter facebook game.

In addition to all of the games, there are several pieces of Neverwinter fiction in the works. New York Times best-selling author R.A. Salvatore returns with Neverwinter, book two of the Neverwinter saga, on October 4th. Salvatore's novel will focus around the fan favorite drow Drizzt Do’Urden, who suddenly finds him self alone and free for the first time in almost a hundred years. Drizzt is also the focus of an all new comic mini-series from IDW, The Legend of Drizzt: Neverwinter Tales. For those fans who cannot wait to get back to Neverwinter, Salvatore's novel Gauntlgrym, which sets the stage for all of this fall's releases, was just released in paperback form.