Evil Wizards in Thay

Dreams of the Red Wizards (FR6) by Steve Perrin, (published by TSR in 1988)

 

Review: Dreams of the Red Wizards describes a nation in the eastern Forgotten Realms (Thay) that is ruled by the Red Wizards.  The Red Wizards are a typical bunch of power-hungry scheming evil wizards.

The supplement covers a lot of ground and provides lots of material for the DM to get started but still leaves lots of details to be filled in.  For example the ruling oligarchy of Red Wizards is a group of 8 wizards but only 2 are described in much detail. 

FR6 does a good job of providing low, medium, and high level adventure ideas both inside and outside of Thay.  FR6 shows awareness of other published materials, which is a good thing.

Notably missing are any details about studying magic ie a college of wizardry.  The description gives the impression that such colleges exist and names the locations of a few of them but gives no other details about them.  Even two paragraphs about one college would be a big improvement.

Overall I would give it fairly high marks.  It is certainly an above-average quality supplement.  Good but not great.  It definitely gets you thinking about what a nation run by evil wizards would look like and how it would behave.

4 out of 5 stars