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Message: <blockquote data-quote="negativtoo" data-source="post: 2015080" data-attributes="member: 1918">ahem.....First-off, this is a setting specific resource, e.g. the definite write up on the pantheons and deities of Faerun. No more, no less. I would honestly be surprised if it had more than an incidental use for settings like Eberron, Kalamar, Scarred Lands or the Wilderlands. As do the gods books from those settings for the FR.... To expect anything else is utterly naive, sorry to say, but no reason to bash a publication.Second, the book is a 224 pages, full-colour hard cover, with very little space wasted, and more importantly, without any relevant information being left out. While 33,- USD may not be cheap, I see few, if any rulebooks with these qualities around on the D20 market at a lesser price.Third, while some higher beings may by now (2 years after the initial publication ) have been overhauled, I don't see that as a reason for this books being called "obsolete". For one, there are numerous campaigns which do not follow the WOtC meta-plot slavishly... Also, Lolth usually is very much an NPC deity, meaning, whatever the/any PCs may hear or believe to know about her is just hearsay - as a GM I hardly ever stick 100% to the official portfolio and stats (of all things, why do gods need binding stats anyway most of the time ?), and I know quite a number of players/GMs who do likewise. Accurate numbers may be interesting for the statistically minded fan, but are hardly essential. So how exactly does the refurbishing of Lolth, occuring of all things in an as yet unfinished series of novels make this book which deals with several dozen deities obsolete ? JFYI - for many players/campaigns/plots Lolth or even the entire Drow pantheon is simply irrelevant... But they might just like the information on the church of Kossuth, the intricacies of the Mulhorandi pantheon or...whatever ?BTW, if the fact that Lolth may have changed some of her aspects makes this book "obsolete" stands unchallenged, then how do we have to judge the FR-supplements from the second edition ? "Obsolete" ? Out-dated ?Sorry, maybe you have an axe to grind with WotC or this particular prodcut, but as a factual reviews your bashing is "obsolete" and irrelevant...</blockquote>

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