FR old edition info on thunder rift and gold dwarves?

[Voadam]

I'm going to be playing an FR gold dwarf from the thunder rift and wondered if there was any old edition tsr FR products on that area or group that is available as a pdf on www.rpgnow.com . I checked the FR alphabetical listings but nothing was there under Thunder rift. Are they covered in dwarves deep? or other old FR sourcebooks? Did it have its own sourcebook? All that I'm interested in is flavor text so the old edition as a cheap pdf is preferred.

 

[Staffan]

Dwarves Deep is probably it as far as the Great Rift is concerned (not Thunder Rift - that was a very basic campaign setting for the "lite" D&D edition released about the same time as Rules Cyclopedia), but it's not exactly an exhaustive sourcebook on the topic. The Great Rift gets about two pages of coverage, and the gold dwarf race itself gets about one.

 

[Arnwyn]

FR11 Dwarves Deep does indeed contain the most info on the Great Rift. The "Great Rift", though, is not just the rift itself - it's also the entire "Deep Realm" region that belongs to the gold dwarves. FR11 includes 2 pages on the Great Rift, another 3 covering the Deep Realm, as well as a poster map of the entire Great Rift/Deep Realm region.

FR11 combined with the 3e Shining South book contains most of the info on the Great Rift region.

 

[ericlboyd]

FR11 Dwarves Deep does indeed contain the most info on the Great Rift. The "Great Rift", though, is not just the rift itself - it's also the entire "Deep Realm" region that belongs to the gold dwarves. FR11 includes 2 pages on the Great Rift, another 3 covering the Deep Realm, as well as a poster map of the entire Great Rift/Deep Realm region.

FR11 combined with the 3e Shining South book contains most of the info on the Great Rift region.

There's also a prestige class in Races of Faerun, IIRC. (Skyrider or something like that.) I think there's a Realms-variant version of the dwarven defender in the Player's Guide as well. (Doublecheck first though, as I'm going by memory.)

--Eric

 

[Templeton580]

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[Ralif Redhammer]

Agreed. I wish TSR had done a line of Dwarves Deep style products instead of the Complete Racials Handbooks. I also wish someone hadn't palmed my copy.

Dwarves Deep contains some of the best, and most useful, information about FR dwarves ever published.