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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lazybones" data-source="post: 2008713" data-attributes="member: 143">Magic of Faerun has a lot going for it: background info, new prestige classes, a ton of new spells, new magic items, and even a few new monsters. The book follows the precedent set by the FRCS of including a wealth of information for the Realms DM to pick and choose from.  I feel that the book was an excellent value, but I had a few problems with specific areas. Some of the prestige classes seemed a little gratuitous, and some (the mage killer comes to mind) didn't really seem to have much to them given their potential. Some of the spell descriptions weren't entirely clear to me, and will no doubt spawn numerous threads on the ENWorld boards (or letters to the Sage). For example, the spell "Hunter's Mercy" seems to contain a contradiction in the descriptive text. And the illustrations... ah, the illustrations.  This is my own opinion, of course, but the illustrations in MoF are AWFUL. Most are apparently from the same artist, done in an abstract style that doesn't even seem to get the perspective of the human form down correctly in many cases. The pictures of the Incantrix, Crypt Spawn, and Reverse Arrows spell are particularly bad, but there are many examples.Still, I can recommend MoF to the Realms afficionado, although someone using another setting might want to wait until their local bookstore has a sale before picking up a copy.</blockquote>