D&D General Favorite Forgotten Realms products of all time?

[Demetrios1453]

3e FRCS
Grand History of the Realms (I wish they would have an extended version that would cover the last century or so!)
The three Faiths and Avatars books, which are simply amazing if you want to know anything about just about any religion in the setting. I really wish they had done a fourth covering monstrous deities as well (I even did created some monstrous deities entries in the F&A format back in those use.net days...)

 

[Zardnaar]

The three 2e FR god books. Faiths & Avatars, Powers & Pantheons, and Demihuman Deities.

The high point in lore on gods in D&D for me. Myth stories of the gods and mortal religious organizations and practices. Lore I have used in my homebrew setting in 3e, Pathfinder, and 5e. And for 2e it had unique specialty priests and magics for each deity’s followers.

This. OPs list is very good as well.

 

[jdrakeh]

Of all time? Grey Box FR Campaign Setting and Dreams of the Red Wizards.

 

[Shades of Eternity]

I have received a surprising amount of use from AD&D - FR5 - The Savage Frontier (1e).

It was fun watching how the map of Loudwater changed over the editions.

I tried to make a sequel adventure to the egg of the phoenix when I found the main villain (Radoc) ended up in the Star Mounts, but it never went anywhere.

 

[LordBP]

WOTC put a bunch of older stuff up on their website for free at one time that you can still get off the wayback machine.

Previous Edition Dungeons & Dragons Downloads

Previous Edition Dungeons & Dragons Downloads

web.archive.org

 

[TiQuinn]

Also have to give a shoutout to The Drow of the Underdark. Drow PCs were understandably all the rage in the early 90s thanks to the popularity of Drizzt, and this book definitely delivered as far as supplementing the novels themselves and giving players additional options for building Drow characters. Our table’s copy became dog-eared over time from the amount of use we got from it. I’d call it a classic.

 

[Voadam]

3e FRCS
Grand History of the Realms (I wish they would have an extended version that would cover the last century or so!)
The three Faiths and Avatars books, which are simply amazing if you want to know anything about just about any religion in the setting. I really wish they had done a fourth covering monstrous deities as well (I even did created some monstrous deities entries in the F&A format back in those use.net days...)

There is the earlier 2e not-FR specific Monster Mythology which does that. Not done by Realms expert Eric Boyd but by Carl Sargent it is more a monster pantheon version of 2e Legends and Lore than the 2e FR Demihuman Deities but it is still quite good and will give you a bunch of lore on the gods and some on their followers, though not quite to the extent of the FR specific churches info like where church centers are and stuff like that. You will note some overlap with Demihuman Deities including shorter coverage of the demihuman deities and a whole section on drow gods. Also the FR stuff is higher powered, even when dealing with the same overlapping gods.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Annoyed at the limited licenseable supplements released on D&D Beyond only for the upcoming Forgotten Realms book got me to look at older Forgotten Realms products available in wonderful downloadable PDFs on DriveThruRPG. I picked up a bunch and a few stuck out at me as good lore-rich products with material I could use in my games for decades to come.

Here were some of the ones that I bought and that caught my eye:

• Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 3e
• Lost Empires of Faerun
• Unapproachable East
• Shining South
• Mysteries of the Moonsea
• Serpent Kingdoms
• Lords of Darkness

These are all from 3rd edition. I have a bunch of the 1st and 2nd edition supplements too but they didn't convert as well over to PDF, with weird parchment backgrounds that make them harder to read. The ones above typically have 60 to 80 pages of 3rd edition mechanics, which doesn't do me a lot of good, but about 100 pages of lore, which is worth the price for me.

What are your favorite Forgotten Realms products you think hold up regardless of the edition one might be playing? Which ones last the ages?

Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, and Serpent Kingdoms are my favorites from 3e. And I love the the three Faith's & Avatars books from 2e.

 

[Demetrios1453]

There is the earlier 2e not-FR specific Monster Mythology which does that.

Which I also posses and used extensively when I was writing my more expansive monster entries. The F&A write-ups were much more extensive, and there are some differences between FR monstrous deities and the generic ones.

 

[Micah Sweet]

There is the earlier 2e not-FR specific Monster Mythology which does that. Not done by Realms expert Eric Boyd but by Carl Sargent it is more a monster pantheon version of 2e Legends and Lore than the 2e FR Demihuman Deities but it is still quite good and will give you a bunch of lore on the gods and some on their followers, though not quite to the extent of the FR specific churches info like where church centers are and stuff like that. You will note some overlap with Demihuman Deities including shorter coverage of the demihuman deities and a whole section on drow gods. Also the FR stuff is higher powered, even when dealing with the same overlapping gods.

Monster Mythology rocks too. Basically I adore any books on that subject.