The Savage Frontier

Code	FR5
Rules required	AD&D
Character levels	NA
Campaign setting	Forgotten Realms
Authors	Paul Jaquays
First published	1988
Linked modules
FR1 FR2 FR3 FR4 FR5 FR6 FR7 FR8 FR9 FR10 FR11 FR12 FR13 FR14 FR15 FR16

Savage Frontier (product code FR5) is an accessory for the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting Forgotten Realms. It describes the Savage Frontier of Faerûn. The book was written by Paul Jaquays. Cover art is by Larry Elmore, with interior illustrations by Esteban Maroto, and cartography by Dave Sutherland, Dennis Kauth, and Jaquays.

The Savage Frontier describes the lands north of the High Moors, the location of the novel The Crystal Shard, and the northern barbarians.^[1]

This is a 64-page booklet wrapped in a removable gatefold cover. The outside gatefold contains a map of the City of Waterdeep, while the inside front cover has maps of the Ruins of Ascore, Grandfather Tree, Hellgate Keep, Luskan, and typical Uthgardt ancestor mounds. Included with the book are two fold-out color poster maps; one of the Savage Frontier region, and one of the Trackless Sea. The book focuses on the region known as "The Savage Frontier", including an introduction to the Savage Frontier, and an overview of the region, as well as the peoples of the North, cities, towns, and villages found there, and geographic features such as the Sea, the Ice, and the Islands, the lost lands, strongholds, and ruins, rivers mountains, and rough lands, the High Forest, and Uthgardt ancestor mounds, as well as some personalities of the North. Four appendixes are featured, including magical items of the Savage Frontier, northern proficiencies (skills useful in the region), news of the land, and adventures in the Savage Frontier.

FR5 The Savage Frontier was written by Paul Jaquays and published by TSR in 1988 as a 64-page booklet with a large color map and an outer folder.^[1]