Forgotten Realms Guide to Astrology - Dungeons and Dragons - Star Signs of Faerun

[@LawrenceofCanadia]

And so my AJ Dnd playlist grows ever larger. Have never slept so well as after I hit the shuffle playlist button on the 500 video long playlist.

[@Slapdab]

Real cool story mechanic. Thanks.

[@JacobYaw]

Would love a printable sheet for easy reference! One of my NPCs is a fullon hippy tiefling lady, who does Tarroka readings and charts the stars! This would be perfect.

[@joshuakirkham9593]

This is perfect, i was wondering how to get my players involved with some academic/guild intrigues. The Diva Bard is going to love being told she was born under lucky stars.

[@ryuuseiferretSP]

I know you said no need to reinvent the wheel but the examples you've given inspired me to make my own constellations and calendar given the relations shown.

[@AJPickett]

Excellent!

[@L0rdm3phiston]

Another great video as always thank you for eveything you do.

[@Timby_]

I love this, I made some homebrew astrology “feats” earlier this year and this helps flesh some of that out :) thanks

[@AJPickett]

My pleasure, I am just happy people find this useful!

[@HBHaga]

This will make a nice little addition to my Circle of Stars Druid. Thanks AJ!

[@L0rdm3phiston]

Hey hey @Aj Pickett hopefully you're doing well.

[@jacobfreeman5444]

Great one AJ! Rather enjoyed it.

[@ObsidianAmeth]

I do want an official Astrology guide. A set of stars that represent something, and it is used to define the being in the world. So, what if there are a group of star wizards and mages who can travel using the stars. Travelling from one planet to another using two similar constellations from the two worlds that have the same meaning. Creating magic and weapons only people borned under one of the constellation can use it.

[@efraim3364]

Astrology in Warhammer Fantasy is a science and school of magic, Celestial Wizards

[@ObsidianAmeth]

Warhammer total war 3 did have an end cutscne where they use the gods remain to find their family member in the stars.

[@mmardh799]

thank you!

[@AJPickett]

You're welcome!

[@mmardh799]

@@AJPickett Question: when are you going to dig into those races that the sarruk enslaved and learn magic from? or those other that were in Toril before them.... (I remember the spellweavers were one of them, though not enslaved, but enemy?)

[@AJPickett]

@@mmardh799 Good question, I have yet to make a video about the Sarrukh.

[@TheHornedKing]

This is actually very neat.

[@windalfalatar333]

I just have to tell you how much I appreciate these lore rich videos. I find Ed Greenwood's Forgotten Realms incredibly fascinating, but your additions and 'filling out the blank spots' even more so. Please give us even more of these videos where you input your own content as fresh brush strokes on the white parts of the canvas.

[@AJPickett]

Well, now and then, I have a LOT of monster ecologies to cover and quite a bit of that involves connecting the dots across multiple editions and source books.

[@windalfalatar333]

@ That's wonderful!! That brings in crossovers and harmonising with other fantasy and mythology, which I love and which I think is one of the very best aspects of your videos (which are extremely good).

[@jhetttiernan2623]

New song to add to the questing playlist and some potential new story ideas for my DM. Thanks AJ! This is why you’re my favorite D&D channel!

[@TreGrisby]

Thank you! This is a great topic!

[@mrmackie-qp6lr]

I like what you said about aquarius that said I think it's really cool that you studied astrology I prefer tarot or runes mostly Tarot but I do appreciate astrology and do definitely believe it has its uses all of that said great work I very much enjoyed this video

[@AJPickett]

I studied runes as well, less so Tarot, astrology is not really about predicting the future events, its more like finding out the influences on a thing.

[@almitrahopkins1873]

It struck me as odd that there weren’t astrology charts in published campaign materials. How do you know if your hero was born under favorable stars without it?

[@pheralanpathfinder4897]

Xanathars offers some background support for such suspicious births.

[@SassyCassie89]

This was really cool, your players are lucky to have you AJ!

[@jacobwilson8579]

Right as was reading about astrology in the realms and working on my expanded lore on Zehkara for my games you come up with this. Glad I finally remembered to read this

[@agentchaos9332]

Hehe, no mention of the Constellates as you talk about d&d constellations? kzbin.info/www/bejne/pavLi6Orrpmgr5Ysi=bTrJeQDE9rM4rndm Remains one of my favorite lore videos. And I think the folks listening to this should know these star signs might be alive.

[@AJPickett]

Over 35 thousand years, I think they noticed and just avoided them.

[@BowChickaHonkHonk1]

I've been running the first adventure of Candlekeep Mysteries - astrology is apparently a subject the Wizard has many books on - but no information. So it is said that the subject exist, but I can't tell you anything about it!!

[@anathema1828]

Excellent work on this video, what a treasure!

[@mikewaterfield3599]

Hey! What’s your sign? If Chauntea features heavily in your campaign cosmology would matter a great deal I imagine.

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

PANR has tuned in.

[@dane3038]

I make it available for players who don't already get enough crunch from my GURPS game. I start the calendar at 1995 and use old Astro calendars or the internet. You must track days. My world is hyper detailed and some adventure sites will only do certain things when the starts are aligned just so ( usually just seasonal and or lunar ). Spell casters who have opted to align themselves with the stars can get extra points for certain spells ( fireball during the Lion's Month even and better if it's the Summer Solstice ). Baking this kind of thing in has the added benefit of forcing me to keep accurate time records which means that Celebration Days happen at their appointed time and not just when I or a module wants to make a festive part of the story. This makes the world seem more real. Because it is.

[@chriscalvin5083]

Interesting video AJ

[@AJPickett]

Thanks Chris, glad you think so.

[@brotherhoodz97]

do you ever post bad videos, its ridiculous how youre always on point friend. i have been meaning to ask. do you have content on vampire neonates and the transformation process and "age categories" of what they might be like?

[@AJPickett]

I am well overdue to make an update Vampire video!

[@Adam_First]

Great video

[@Vandelberger]

Can you imagine the urban dating scenes, matching people to their astrological signs and being RIGHT to do so?

[@pheralanpathfinder4897]

Not just urban. Infusion of fresh DNA from a different small town based on astrology would also make sense. Ye are best suited to marriage with someone born under a fall of daggers. (Daggerfall)

[@cadenceclearwater4340]

♊️ 🌟

[@cernunnos_lives]

Master Pickett, when will you let me free from your confounded circle of Protection? I've performed all the Rites, I've destroyed some of your Enemies, "this 'Williams' is at least unable to do more damage" Please release me or make my cage larger?

[@AJPickett]

LOL, I appreciate it, but, I am not stuck in this industry with them... they are stuck in this industry with ME.

[@Comicnut64]

Perfect AJ now even in D&D women will use this as an excuse to break up with me hahahaha

[@Kholan95]

Must not be in your stars 😅⭐

[@AJPickett]

Ouch! Sorry for the trauma Comicnut.

[@Comicnut64]

@ it’s all good buddy, saw star signs and had to make the joke

[@MrBendylaw]

​@@Comicnut64As I told a friend, "It can only happen to you 12 times at most, Charlie.". To which he responded, "Unless she was lying.". I didn't ask which.

[@TheMightyBattleSquid]

Wish I had this when I was playing a divination wizard using popular astrology to find her true love lol

[@tatsusama3192]

I was born on the 16th of Tymori😁

[@Mornar1]

Dear author of the channel, I have a question for you as an expert on the Forgotten Realms. What calendar did all the Elven multi-thousand-year-old kingdoms use?

[@AJPickett]

They went be the ruling eras of the Coronals mostly, but I will have to check up on that.

[@Mornar1]

@@AJPickett Thank you very much! The earliest calendar I found was "Netheril Year", but obviously the Vyshaantar Empire had to have some kind of its own way of reckoning the years. Unfortunately I couldn't find any information about it in the 3rd edition or later. Anyway, thanks for the answer!

[@MrBendylaw]

Always wondered about this. How do you read the stars once you've realized they're sky-aquariums? That you are in a similar fishbowl? That Atropus is hanging out up there, and might actually be aware of you? Or the stars might descend and turn into a deity or something. I expect your Toriil astrologers are a particularly dodgy breed, probably close to a half-crazy hedge-wizards, especially considering that individual 'stars' might be talking directly to them! Any court astrologers would need to be dealt with using extreme caution/truesight/detect whatever magic!

[@AJPickett]

Well that's a great question, since in original Spelljammer lore the Sun was eaten by Dendar and is now replaced with an artificial star, so the ancient prophesy was right... the inside of the Sphere of Realmspace has gigantic statues holding aloft great flaming braziers which appear like stars down on the planets far away ( and I mean FAR away, the same distance as the furtherest planet from the star, from that planet to the great sphere is that same distance), also, all the surface of the Sphere is covered in the inscriptions of SPELLS... nobody knows who made the spheres and the sphere of Realmspace is quite weird compared to most. In modern D&D, there is no sphere, the prime material worlds are essentially demiplanes drifting in the Deep Ethereal, connected to the inner planes and and the border ethereal, the outer planes are linked via the Astral Plane... if I catch ANYONE flying a spelljammer through the Astral plane I will drop an SWARM of Astral Dreadnoughts on them faster than they can shout "OH FUCK."

[@MrBendylaw]

@@AJPickett "Let me introduce myself, m'Lord: I am Sosocrates, reader of...not stars, for as my Lord knows, the stars are fickle and intransigent. I, Sosocrates, read _the_ _space_ _between_ _the_ _stars_ ! For that is constant! And beyond that trusty blackness lies the proper measure of truth and fortune...the Far Realm!"

[@AJPickett]

@@MrBendylaw *tentacles and teeth ensue*

[@MrBendylaw]

@@AJPickett The same thing might easily happen in this world if you trust an astrologer. Though I guess I'd personally rather deal with the 'teeth and tentacles' than the 'bad marriage' option.

[@DCdabest]

Well considering what Astrology covers is basically Divination; it could, and should, have a great many variants and rules depending on the part of the world each tradition is drawn from. And not to mention all the significance of Astrology in religious traditions. The messages from the gods should be written in the stars.

[@davidfletcher6703]

I'm Scorpio, I actually just had my 44th birthday on October 30th

[@asifadnan6362]

I have to wonder though if I had a character isekai'd to Toril how would I convert the signs according to your system? For example, if I had a character with a birthday of October 20. He's a Libra but the Libra equivalent is King's Coin in September. That's a massive difference. If anyone here can give me some ideas I'd appreciate it.

[@AJPickett]

They would be the sign at the time of their birth on the world of their birth.

[@TheGenericavatar]

If you can ask the gods for signs and explanations and they actually respond, there's not much reason to develop astrology to divine the future and the wills of the gods.

[@AJPickett]

The gods are notorious for their lack of giving people answers, but you have a good point. Most of Astrology is NOT about predicting the future, its about identifying the nature and influences on a thing.

[@HenriFaust]

That might work for clerics, but what about everyone else? Besides, most priests have to spend their spell slots on more immediate concerns, like healing and combat magic. Worse, if a priest asks the wrong question, he might annoy their deity and face reprimands or find out that which was not meant to be known by mortal minds and go insane. Asking the gods for answers is not a trivial thing when they actually respond!