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.

Click here for the PDF version
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[MonsterEnvy]

I think you're right but am holding out hope that they will avoid it (by which I mean I am hoping that, for example, the subclasses are actually all tied into the Realms).

This reminds me of the 3e Monsters of Faerun book, which appropriated a whole bunch of previously generic, non-Realms monsters. The problem was that 2/3 of the book was stuff that was almost useless outside of an FR campaign, so that killed my urge to buy it. Same thing is happening here. I am the target audience for generic splat material, but man, I am not going to buy a book if 75% of it is Realms-specific.

It's looking like 60% of it is realms specific.

Which is fine with me. As I want to learn about the updated realms.

 

[Parmandur]

I think you're right but am holding out hope that they will avoid it (by which I mean I am hoping that, for example, the subclasses are actually all tied into the Realms).



This reminds me of the 3e Monsters of Faerun book, which appropriated a whole bunch of previously generic, non-Realms monsters. The problem was that 2/3 of the book was stuff that was almost useless outside of an FR campaign, so that killed my urge to buy it. Same thing is happening here. I am the target audience for generic splat material, but man, I am not going to buy a book if 75% of it is Realms-specific.

They've been pretty specific that they are doing that; so far as we know, all of the subclasses can be generic: even the Purple Dragon Knights are probably just knights.

 

[gyor]

There is a specific section in the book devoted to porting the crunchy content into other settings.

 

[Parmandur]

There is a specific section in the book devoted to porting the crunchy content into other settings.

Not very long, though; the material is probably pretty generic, based on the fact that they have the section to port, but that it is miniscule...

 

[gyor]

I don't think it would take much to port it, I doubt any of the mechanics, except for maybe for a couple of backgrounds like Waterhavian Noble (even that you could probably just switch it local in the title to another, simular cosmopolitian city), require a forgotten realms location, character, or asset to work, at least none where you can't replace it with another asset, character, or Location from your campaign setting easily.

 

[abirdcall]

I would think the hardest things to port would be faction specific.

 

[pukunui]

They've hit $70k! Hopefully we'll see the urban bounty hunter background soon.

 

[Irennan]

They've hit $70k! Hopefully we'll see the urban bounty hunter background soon.

They could have offered at least one lore entry preview, rather than just mechanics, though.

 

[pukunui]

They could have offered at least one lore entry preview, rather than just mechanics, though.

Agreed. I particularly would like to see the entry on Baldur's Gate, since that's where my Tyranny of Dragons campaign is at the moment.

Also, they still haven't updated either page with a link for the greenflame blade cantrip, let alone the urban bounty hunter. What's up with that?

 

[Parmandur]

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...

I just checked, about the same length of the 3E CS, minus the cosmology section.