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<blockquote data-quote="muhcashin" data-source="post: 846803" data-attributes="member: 5346">To whom?RoF is for players? or for DMs? I mean sure mindflayers and giants are definitely wayyy too powerful to be PC races, I just hadn't thought that RoF was aimed at PCs. I assumed it was DM oriented, considering that most of the sourcebooks are (Lord of Darkness, Silver Marches, Faiths and Pantheons.) Besides many of the races in book are so reclusive and odd that not many players could play them adequately. All those curiosities are the DM's stuff, made to show players how diverse the cultures on Faerun are. Rather than always meeting elves in the forest, they can stumnle upon a community of forest gnomes.Personnally, I feel that details on giant would be nice. Though, I could try to find 2e book about giants... What was it called? Giantcraft? Something like that.And yes, mindflayers can be found in many many many products. But so are shades. Lords of Darkness' information on the shadovar is much more extensive than that found in the RoF. One final thing, the only time I've heard about the Avariel is in Baldur's Gate II. Where else (besides RoF) are they mentionned? The notion of flying doesn't sit well with me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="muhcashin, post: 846803, member: 5346"] [b]To whom?[/b] RoF is for players? or for DMs? I mean sure mindflayers and giants are definitely wayyy too powerful to be PC races, I just hadn't thought that RoF was aimed at PCs. I assumed it was DM oriented, considering that most of the sourcebooks are (Lord of Darkness, Silver Marches, Faiths and Pantheons.) Besides many of the races in book are so reclusive and odd that not many players could play them adequately. All those curiosities are the DM's stuff, made to show players how diverse the cultures on Faerun are. Rather than always meeting elves in the forest, they can stumnle upon a community of forest gnomes. Personnally, I feel that details on giant would be nice. Though, I could try to find 2e book about giants... What was it called? Giantcraft? Something like that. And yes, mindflayers can be found in many many many products. But so are shades. Lords of Darkness' information on the shadovar is much more extensive than that found in the RoF. One final thing, the only time I've heard about the Avariel is in Baldur's Gate II. Where else (besides RoF) are they mentionned? The notion of flying doesn't sit well with me. [/QUOTE]

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