D&D General What Is In The New FR Books That IS Useful Outside FR?
- Thread starter Reynard
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The Aurora's Whole Realms Catalog equipment entries (p.128-136) in Heroes of Faerûn stands out to me as super useful.
Although the catalog is linked to the Realms regions discussed in the Heroes and the Adventures books, the equipment itself could be from anywhere in any game world.
I really like the Warm Fungal Clothing (you can eat it!).
The Mechanical Wonders could easily be from Eberron.
Several items, like the Locking Spellbook and the Covered Wagon, can easily be found in any game world, too.
Although the catalog is linked to the Realms regions discussed in the Heroes and the Adventures books, the equipment itself could be from anywhere in any game world.
I really like the Warm Fungal Clothing (you can eat it!).
The Mechanical Wonders could easily be from Eberron.
Several items, like the Locking Spellbook and the Covered Wagon, can easily be found in any game world, too.
dave2008
Legend
I can't put a % to it, but both of these books appear to be vastly more useful to me than all of the adventure books set in FR. I used to buy those just for the monsters and some times for encounter locations!
FitzTheRuke
Legend
Pretty much all of the crunch is easily refluffed for any setting.
Pretty much all of the Adventures could be placed anywhere.
Pretty much all of the fluff could be remixed or used as a basis of comparison ("My world doesn't have THAT, it has THIS instead!")
So... Pretty much all of it? YMMV.
Pretty much all of the Adventures could be placed anywhere.
Pretty much all of the fluff could be remixed or used as a basis of comparison ("My world doesn't have THAT, it has THIS instead!")
So... Pretty much all of it? YMMV.
Reynard
aka Ian Eller
So what makes it a FR product?
I am, of course, being flip, but if the whole thing is useful outide of FR, it is hard to imagine it being a true FR product.
Factions (name them as appropriate, only taking the ones that make sense)
Bastions
Renown
Backgrounds! Feats!
The microadventures
Bastions
Renown
Backgrounds! Feats!
The microadventures
DragonLancer
Hero
I'm buying it to add the subclasses, feats, spells, equipment and magic items to my game.
Scribe
Legend
Using it as is = FR?
Reynard
aka Ian Eller
I assume that it must have some pretty good FR specific fluff. I was just pushing back against the idea that "everything" in it was useful outside the Realms. If I have to rewrite a bunch of history and setting specific stuff, that isn't useful. And to be clear, I don't expect it to be. But that was the assertion that was made.
Mirrorrorrim
Hero
It makes no sense to create a bunch of content that is useless outside of the Forgotten Realms. The context of the content being presented in the FR books (whether the contents' creators, organizations, or realms of origin) is just a boon that provides examples of how you might want to present it in your own home campaign setting.
