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I just don't see why they even bothered with the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide.
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<blockquote data-quote="JeffB" data-source="post: 6756150" data-attributes="member: 518"><p>If you did that iss great, but it was not intended to be intro to the setting at all. I use it quite often in my games. It was a gap product while TSR worked up the " big gold box" (and later big grey box) sets. </p><p></p><p>Can you run a game just grabbing a city map? Sure. But FRA is nowhere near the same intended purpose as the SCAG. It does not provide a intro to the Realms or even the Heartlands. Its a collection of cities and maps that had previously not been detailed and a bunch of crunch as well as an extremely brief "lore" update about the ToT. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> see above. FRA is a horrible product to hand a new player and say "here, this will give you an overview of the setting and area as well as provide some character background/advice, and new character options for our upcoming Forgotten Realms campaign". THAT is actually what the SCAG is good for...I don't have any use/need for it personally, but It is far more akin to the 4E FR Players guide or the 2E Players Guide to Greyhawk, than it is to FRA.</p><p></p><p>If I gave FRA to the kids in my group and asked them to use it as prep for an upcoming FR campaign, I'd get a whole lot of "WTF?"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JeffB, post: 6756150, member: 518"] If you did that iss great, but it was not intended to be intro to the setting at all. I use it quite often in my games. It was a gap product while TSR worked up the " big gold box" (and later big grey box) sets. Can you run a game just grabbing a city map? Sure. But FRA is nowhere near the same intended purpose as the SCAG. It does not provide a intro to the Realms or even the Heartlands. Its a collection of cities and maps that had previously not been detailed and a bunch of crunch as well as an extremely brief "lore" update about the ToT. see above. FRA is a horrible product to hand a new player and say "here, this will give you an overview of the setting and area as well as provide some character background/advice, and new character options for our upcoming Forgotten Realms campaign". THAT is actually what the SCAG is good for...I don't have any use/need for it personally, but It is far more akin to the 4E FR Players guide or the 2E Players Guide to Greyhawk, than it is to FRA. If I gave FRA to the kids in my group and asked them to use it as prep for an upcoming FR campaign, I'd get a whole lot of "WTF?" [/QUOTE]
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