 "The Savage Frontier" (FR5) was written by Jennell Jaquays and published by TSR in 1988 as a 64-page booklet with a large color map and an outer folder.Jim Bambra reviewed "The Savage Frontier" for "Dragon" magazine #144 (April 1989).Bambra wrote that the color maps and text "place firmly in context the descriptions given in FR1 "Waterdeep and the North".