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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 6756553" data-attributes="member: 12388">I picked up a copy of the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide tonight. At this time I am not involved in any campaigns, but I try to write gaming material every day and the SCAG has already proven itself useful for my Realms work. First impressions: The book is like a cross between 3E's FRCS and Forgotten Realms Adventures. I love the image of Elminster surrounded by children (on page 6), the smoke from his pipe forming into images to accompany the stories he tells. The return of the Unreliable Narrator voice is long overdue. The sections I've read that use this voice are a little dry and not quite flavorful enough--that is, they come close to reading like the omniscient sourcebook-communicating-to-DM voice--but I've only looked up sections I want to update myself on (like Elturgard), so I can't say this is true of the whole book.In order to find Elturgard, I had to look it up in the index. It's been a long time since a comprehensive index found its way into a Realms guide, and I'm damn pleased to see it return. WotC, don't ever omit a comprehensive index from any Campaign Guide or Players Guide again. Effigies will be burned, otherwise!In order to get this post on topic vis-a-vis the OP: I don't think I'm the target audience for this book (forty something gamer that has played in the Realms for nearly thirty years). The target is new gamers and gamers with some experience in the Realms.After browsing through the book, it appears to me the writers hit all the right points (Calendar of Harptos) and including the extra bits that some have (foolishly, in my not so humble opinion) discounted, like instruments and coinage, so I think new gamers will be well served by it.  The only quip I have, as of now, is this: the map on page 5 lists only one city--which I am fine with--but it's the wrong one: Marsember. It should have been Suzail, the capitol of Cormyr.</blockquote>

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