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Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Messageboard Golem" data-source="post: 2010317" data-attributes="member: 18387">This is actually the first D&D supplement I got since the early 1990s when I got a boatload of Classic D&D material, and I have to say the technical quality of the book was what blew me away this time. I read some of the other reviews and I found it somewhat funny that so many reviews focused on presentation, which has, in my opinion, always been of secondary priority. But the excellent technical execution does leave a good taste in the mouth.So, now I have the book I have dreamed of having for about 5 or 6 years, since I first heard of Forgotten Realms. And yes, after careful examination and working on adventures based on the book, I have to say this is a very good book, well worth the 50 euro price tag.The book goes on very well describing the general geography and the history of the Realms, and I especially value the chapters describing the life on Faerûn - very good look on what's going on. The only problem I see with the descriptions of the places is that they're not very detailed - but at least there's some description for most of the places, enough that the DM can make a credible work of describing different places without buying another $upplement (and besides, WotC freebie PDFs of earlier editions of FR supplements are very very nice and are easy to adapt). In short, the geography descriptions are detailed enough, and if they aren't, at least detailed enough to get imagination rolling. Nice enough to shape the Realms to everyone's tastes.The character details, especially the new prestige classes, are pretty good and very nicely adaptable. I like the character region system where characters get languages, extra starting equipment based on their home region, in addition to the choice of regional feats - this gives characters nice feel and helps shaping the character background. FR characters, including the nice examples of FR heroes, villains and legends sprinkled through the book, have their unique feel of their own. The chapter on deities and cosmology is very nice, and undoubtedly of great fun when pondering the world's spiritual side.There are some minor flaws, even if their fixing would mean increasing the page count... I would have wanted more of map pages. The poster map is good, but difficult to use at times. Only two insert maps are included, naturally for the two suggested areas of placing the campaign in (The Silver Marches and the Dalelands). Also, I'd have wished for one of the two-page full maps (for example, the political map) to have page numbers for each nation - This would have made finding different places much easier for the uninitiated, now I got very familiar with the index.Also, it's too bad that the Monsters and Magic have been largely split to supplements of their own - I'd have really wished for both, or at least the Monsters, to be included to the book (well, it's not like the world is unrecognizable with just the Monster Manual creeps...)In short, a very good book and well worth its price.</blockquote>

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