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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CM" data-source="post: 6169722" data-attributes="member: 18340">I am prepping for a Neverwinter setting game to run alongside my Sundering game and reading through the Neverwinter Campaign guide for the first time. Wow.I hope any future regional books WotC publishes have as much detail and as many plot hooks spread out throughout them. Nearly every page has sidebars with plot hooks, and many major NPCs are left open to DM interpretation as to where their true loyalties lie (usually with several suggestions). There are very few NPC stat blocks. At most, they recommend using stats of "NPC X" from one of the monster manuals. It's supposed to be a heroic-tier setting, but I could easily see a Neverwinter campaign going straight through epic and not running out of material. If you haven't perused this book yet, at least page through it somewhere. I will second the motion for an online interactive atlas. Tying it to a DDI account would work for me.Finally, I'm not sure complaints about FR's Mary Sue NPCs are valid in the 4e era. Most of those from the 2e/3e era are dead, and the few remaining rate, at most, a paragraph or two. Going from memory, I think Elminster rates a quarter-page sidebar in the 4e FR campaign guide. Drizzt's mention in the Neverwinter guide is limited to a brief note about his camp in the city, and a few "grandmaster techniques" he can teach the players. Hopefully the Sundered Realms don't revert back to page-long statblocks for such NPCs.</blockquote>

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