Here's That SCAG Table of Contents!

WotC's Extra Life charity funding campaign hit $50,000 just now, and as promised they added the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide table of contents to the already released preface. The chapters are Welcome to the Realms, The Swords Coast and the North, Races of the Realms, Classes, Backgrounds, and a two-page appendix dealing with using the aforementioned options in Dragonlance, Eberron, Greyhawk, and Homemade Worlds.

Find the preface, released yesterday, here. At $60,000, they will release a new cantrip, Greenflame Blade.

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[machineelf]

I was actually hoping for a full-fledged Sword Coast campaign setting, and it appears to only be half of the book (if I include the races of Faerun section). I'm a bit disappointed. I was hoping for detailed exposition and maps of all the major cities, and good exposition about the rest of the region. In other words, I was hoping for one nearly exhaustive source book about the region of the Sword Coast (or as close to it as possible in a 200 page book), and it doesn't seem like I'm getting that.

 

[AaronOfBarbaria]

Hey, let me know a campaign source book you like the outline and organization of so I can compare and see your thoughts.

Pathfinder's Inner Sea World Guide is one that comes to mind where I like the organization of the book, even though I'm not a fan of the setting itself or all of the aesthetic choices. It is the one that is currently my front-runner for use as a general outline, but I fear matching the organization would result in unintentionally matching the page count too.

 

[Caecafortuna]

Looks pretty cool to me. Already had mine preordered through my local store. Can't wait to pick it up.

 

[SkidAce]

Pathfinder's Inner Sea World Guide is one that comes to mind where I like the organization of the book, even though I'm not a fan of the setting itself or all of the aesthetic choices. It is the one that is currently my front-runner for use as a general outline, but I fear matching the organization would result in unintentionally matching the page count too.

Thanks, I'll take a look at its TOC.

 

[ppaladin123]

I am thinking the cleric domain will be a non-evil Death...stripped of undeath spells. You really need that sort of domain in FR given the neutral death god commonly served by players.

 

[pukunui]

They're so close to $60k now! Shouldn't be long till we get to see the greenflame blade cantrip! Sounds like something Chris Perkins came up with. Green flames are a bit of a running joke with him, aren't they?

 

[Curmudjinn]

They're so close to $60k now! Shouldn't be long till we get to see the greenflame blade cantrip! Sounds like something Chris Perkins came up with. Green flames are a bit of a running joke with him, aren't they?

Greenflame/greensteel are relics of the abyss in 2nd edition, specifically the PlaneScape setting.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Especially with wikipedia 1 second away on any connected device. As others mentioned, an article would be enough to avoid a ton of boring prose about what such and such represents, what his chosen wear, and what kind of temples they like to build.

It's fine world-building info, but there's so much of it that really isn't that gameable except under extremely specific circumstances. I mean, beyond a single descriptive line or two per temple/high-level cleric, how many GMs out there are really taking the time to make every one of those things feel markedly different, and moreover, true to canon?

Well, at minimum, the 37 human deities listed on page 294 of the Player's Handbook will need to be covered; as there are 3 sidebars in the section, at 20 pages, that will come out to approximately 2 deities per page at most. And that number per page could increase dramatically should the human demigods (one of whom, Uthgar, almost certainly would need to be included), the pantheons of the other playable races, or the various deities of more monstrous creatures, are included. The drow, dwarf, elf, gnome, halfling, and orc pantheons have a total of 53 deities (and if we include the draconic deities for dragonborn, another 10 or so, although the Realms version of that pantheon is a bit fluid due to setting idiosyncrasies and sources not agreeing with each other); given that some non-human deities would almost certainly have to be included so as not to leave players of the other races out in the cold, it could very easily turn into 4 - 5 deities per page. And if that is the case, we're not going to get much more than very basic info...

 

[Edwin Suijkerbuijk]

GREEN FLAME.

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[CapnZapp]

See the new thread on greenflame.