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<blockquote data-quote="Erik Mona" data-source="post: 5513950" data-attributes="member: 2174">I always sort of looked at this book as a very high point in the creative development of the Forgotten Realms. This thing was used HEAVILY in the RPGA's Living City campaign, and all of the little cultural details in this book brought a lot of life to characters I encountered when traveling around the country playing in the campaign around this time.The follow-ups, Powers &amp; Pantheons and Demihuman Deities, were also quite good, but got more tertiary and less &quot;tenderloin&quot; as far as the gods went and were thus a bit less interesting overall. As a Dragon-appropriate side note, most of the gods in Demihuman Deities were culled from Roger E. Moore's original Dragon magazine article series of the same name.When they tried to rekindle the magic in 3rd edition with the hardcover Faiths &amp; Pantheons (by original series co-author Eric L. Boyd and yours truly), most fans seemed to prefer the original Faiths &amp; Pantheons for its focus on mythical and cultural detail rather than the &quot;you can kill Thor&quot; stats-based focus of the newer book.--Erik</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Erik Mona, post: 5513950, member: 2174"] I always sort of looked at this book as a very high point in the creative development of the Forgotten Realms. This thing was used HEAVILY in the RPGA's Living City campaign, and all of the little cultural details in this book brought a lot of life to characters I encountered when traveling around the country playing in the campaign around this time. The follow-ups, Powers & Pantheons and Demihuman Deities, were also quite good, but got more tertiary and less "tenderloin" as far as the gods went and were thus a bit less interesting overall. As a Dragon-appropriate side note, most of the gods in Demihuman Deities were culled from Roger E. Moore's original Dragon magazine article series of the same name. When they tried to rekindle the magic in 3rd edition with the hardcover Faiths & Pantheons (by original series co-author Eric L. Boyd and yours truly), most fans seemed to prefer the original Faiths & Pantheons for its focus on mythical and cultural detail rather than the "you can kill Thor" stats-based focus of the newer book. --Erik [/QUOTE]

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