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I picked it up largely because of this review. I think it is a very useful book for running a drow campaign, though it does have some overlap with both Drow of the Underdark 3e and Menzoberranzan 2e. It has fairly little overlap with Underdark 3e (and I haven't read the 4e underdark book). If...

Personally I'm happy they're putting out a system neutral book. I have a bunch of the other setting books they released for various editions, and in 3e, and the other 4e setting books I've read, there's far too much crunch for the pagecount. Its a setting book, not an options book. I want it to...

Is the TB Monster Manual coming soon? How about the reformatted PHB? The new Grim Tales? Thanks guys, interested to see what you came up with.

The business model and design philosophies are large parts of the game itself. What you do when designing the game, and how I have to get that game are big parts of how I'm going to feel about that game. I'm not saying "Hey guys. Without Monte Cook I have no interest in this!" or "I dont buy...

A. The departure of Monte Cook makes me a little nervous. While he's not my favorite game designer, the current team is made up of the people that bored or irritated me all the way to other publishers and game systems just a couple years ago, when I discovered that I just didn't have fun playing...

I have it. I found the pre-publication fanpdf better than the WotC produced one, and it was still lacking as an encyclopedia. Afterall, its mostly timeline.

Hmm. Perhaps. I guess my error was in thinking that when I see contradictions it's an error because the author didn't realize he was contradicting it. I suppose its possible the contradictions are intentional, but then I have to conclude that the person who made the decision to do so doesn't...

Hmm. Looking it up; the spell is Time Conduit (Page 3 Cormanthyr Empire of Elves). When Mystryl was around (pre-fall of netheril), it was the only means of time travel, and all other methods become that if youre doing anything with that time period. The 4 Time Gates use that spell. After...

But that itself would be a retcon, because in 2e it was established that time travel in the forgotten realms is very strictly limited and controlled. In fact there is only a single spell that can do it, and any other types of time traveling magic from other worlds either simply dont work, or...

I disagree about mulhorand, but its worth noting that if you dont like Maztica, Kara Tur, or Zakhara, They're detailed in their own books instead of the main FRCS. The FRCS treats those continents as blank, so if you dont like Maztica, you can easily ignore it, or even put something else on the...

I'd actually like to have facing as an option. And hit points that are obviously what they represent. Damage. If you want to track fatigue, have it be a separate thing that hinders your ability to dodge or something. As Evil Lincoln pointed out on the Paizo boards, when they describe HP they...

All of this. In 2e-3e it was pretty much just name changes; other than the fact that drow gained the ability to keep their magic on the surface (which was explained in the novels prior to 3e). The 3e-4e change saw massive retcons. Groups who used to exist now have never existed. Same with...

Just set the books 20 years ahead of whatever the timeline furthest in the future is, or set it in the past, filling in more details and not changing history. *DONT* set it too near to present campaign setting dates.

I'm not all that interested in this product per se, but I'm considering buying it to encourage them to rerelease more retro products. Personally I'd like to see new printings of the 2e AD&D campaign settings. Maybe even system neutral adaptations of them. ... Actually, most of what I want at...

Or it could be that someone else wrote to them and gave them a decent business plan, which I don't think they would have ever thought of on their own.