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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 6485172" data-attributes="member: 907"><p>To be honest, if I was going to start playing in FR using 5e without previous experience I would probably go for the 2e boxed set.</p><p></p><p>Yes, the 3e FRCS was awesome at the time, but a big part of that was that it had plenty of <em>rules</em> for showcasing the setting - things like regional feats (feats that were a tad better than the baseline but could only be taken by people from certain places), new domains to fit the plethora of gods, dozens of subraces to differentiate one kind of elf from another, and such. This information is fairly useless in 5e. The 2e boxed set, on the other hand, is almost all fluff, and particularly the Heartlands (Cormyr, Dalelands, Sembia, the Moonsea, the Vast, the Dragon Coast, the Western Heartlands) get plenty of development.</p><p></p><p>If you can find the actual 2e boxed set, it also comes with four poster maps: two large-scale showing pretty much the whole of Faerûn, and two smaller-scale ones showing the Heartlands. It also has plastic hex overlays that make it easier to measure distance on the maps, and a whole bunch of cardboard handouts showing various holy symbols, way-runes, and other cool stuff. The 3e FRCS only has one map, at even larger scale than the large-scale boxed set map (120 miles per inch instead of 90), but it is on the other hand really pretty. It also has zoomed-in maps in the book of the Eastern Heartlands (Cormyr, Sembia, Dalelands, part of the Moonsea; at 40 miles per inch to the small-scale box set maps at 30) and of the North (which the 2e boxed set doesn't have, though there was a North boxed set as well for 2e).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 6485172, member: 907"] To be honest, if I was going to start playing in FR using 5e without previous experience I would probably go for the 2e boxed set. Yes, the 3e FRCS was awesome at the time, but a big part of that was that it had plenty of [I]rules[/I] for showcasing the setting - things like regional feats (feats that were a tad better than the baseline but could only be taken by people from certain places), new domains to fit the plethora of gods, dozens of subraces to differentiate one kind of elf from another, and such. This information is fairly useless in 5e. The 2e boxed set, on the other hand, is almost all fluff, and particularly the Heartlands (Cormyr, Dalelands, Sembia, the Moonsea, the Vast, the Dragon Coast, the Western Heartlands) get plenty of development. If you can find the actual 2e boxed set, it also comes with four poster maps: two large-scale showing pretty much the whole of Faerûn, and two smaller-scale ones showing the Heartlands. It also has plastic hex overlays that make it easier to measure distance on the maps, and a whole bunch of cardboard handouts showing various holy symbols, way-runes, and other cool stuff. The 3e FRCS only has one map, at even larger scale than the large-scale boxed set map (120 miles per inch instead of 90), but it is on the other hand really pretty. It also has zoomed-in maps in the book of the Eastern Heartlands (Cormyr, Sembia, Dalelands, part of the Moonsea; at 40 miles per inch to the small-scale box set maps at 30) and of the North (which the 2e boxed set doesn't have, though there was a North boxed set as well for 2e). [/QUOTE]
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