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<blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 7684685" data-attributes="member: 6801060"><p>So, after a few days of frustration, I've finally snagged myself a copy of the book. To answer a few things brought up in this thread (as well as other things):</p><p></p><p>The non-Sword Coast areas do get brief, but for their length, fairly detailed descriptions. I was honestly surprised in how much info was packed into just a few paragraphs for each entry.</p><p></p><p>1489 DR is heavily hinted, but not outright stated, to be the present year. One paragraph in the history section starts with "By 1489..." and the next begins with "The world today..." It's a bit murky with the tenses used in the paragraphs in question, but I'd say 1489 would be the most likely candidate, given that every year from 1482 through 1489 - excepting only 1483 - gets date-checked in the section. It would seem odd to go up to 1489 and stop there without it being the present year (and if, for some reason not, then 1490 is just about the only other viable candidate).</p><p></p><p>Amaunator and Lathander are distinct deities - both get in-depth descriptions, and both sections use the present tense, indicating that both are worshiped separately in the here and now.</p><p></p><p>The human deities all get fairly detailed descriptions - much more than expected given the length of the section in the pre-released table of contents. The only exception to this are the four elemental deities for some reason. Also, there are a few missing holy symbol illustrations at the bottom of the deity pages - Gwaeron Windstrom and Melil are the two I noticed as missing. But beyond that the artwork for the symbols is top-notch. Only some of the demigods did make it into the book however; like other posters, I'm surprised by the exclusion of Sharess when Jergal somehow made the cut (surely the former has far more worshipers than the latter!)</p><p></p><p>The non-human deities are less covered. At first it seems that they only get tables for each pantheon, but later in the book, under each race, all of them do get at least some brief coverage. The poor dragonborn, however, have to make due with the info on Bahamut and Tiamat in the Player's Handbook; even though the deities are mentioned repeatedly in the dragonborn section, neither they, nor any of the other draconic deities, merits even a table in this book. Conversely, all of the deities for playable races appear to be fully listed (other than Ghaunadaur, who seems to have been, not unreasonably, recast as a Great Old One patron for warlocks).</p><p></p><p>The actual main geographical areas covered in the book are surprisingly detailed. The Island Kingdoms section especially stood out for me - given its length and various hints I suspected the Moonshaes might be covered, and indeed they are, quite fully, but I certainly wasn't expecting anything on Lantan or Nimbral! Granted, much of what is said for them (and for Evermeet as well) comes in the form of hearsay from the narrator of the section (a gnome sailor - all the geographic regions covered has their own specific narrator talking about the cities and regions), but even then just the half page or so on Lantan compares favorably to the entirity of the coverage we've had in all previous editions <em>combined</em>...</p><p></p><p>The races and classes section are chock-full of good stuff - too much to go into in detail, other than the fact that after I got the book today, I now have a variant tiefling, an arcana domain cleric (of Mystra), and a swashbuckler suddenly in my party...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Demetrios1453, post: 7684685, member: 6801060"] So, after a few days of frustration, I've finally snagged myself a copy of the book. To answer a few things brought up in this thread (as well as other things): The non-Sword Coast areas do get brief, but for their length, fairly detailed descriptions. I was honestly surprised in how much info was packed into just a few paragraphs for each entry. 1489 DR is heavily hinted, but not outright stated, to be the present year. One paragraph in the history section starts with "By 1489..." and the next begins with "The world today..." It's a bit murky with the tenses used in the paragraphs in question, but I'd say 1489 would be the most likely candidate, given that every year from 1482 through 1489 - excepting only 1483 - gets date-checked in the section. It would seem odd to go up to 1489 and stop there without it being the present year (and if, for some reason not, then 1490 is just about the only other viable candidate). Amaunator and Lathander are distinct deities - both get in-depth descriptions, and both sections use the present tense, indicating that both are worshiped separately in the here and now. The human deities all get fairly detailed descriptions - much more than expected given the length of the section in the pre-released table of contents. The only exception to this are the four elemental deities for some reason. Also, there are a few missing holy symbol illustrations at the bottom of the deity pages - Gwaeron Windstrom and Melil are the two I noticed as missing. But beyond that the artwork for the symbols is top-notch. Only some of the demigods did make it into the book however; like other posters, I'm surprised by the exclusion of Sharess when Jergal somehow made the cut (surely the former has far more worshipers than the latter!) The non-human deities are less covered. At first it seems that they only get tables for each pantheon, but later in the book, under each race, all of them do get at least some brief coverage. The poor dragonborn, however, have to make due with the info on Bahamut and Tiamat in the Player's Handbook; even though the deities are mentioned repeatedly in the dragonborn section, neither they, nor any of the other draconic deities, merits even a table in this book. Conversely, all of the deities for playable races appear to be fully listed (other than Ghaunadaur, who seems to have been, not unreasonably, recast as a Great Old One patron for warlocks). The actual main geographical areas covered in the book are surprisingly detailed. The Island Kingdoms section especially stood out for me - given its length and various hints I suspected the Moonshaes might be covered, and indeed they are, quite fully, but I certainly wasn't expecting anything on Lantan or Nimbral! Granted, much of what is said for them (and for Evermeet as well) comes in the form of hearsay from the narrator of the section (a gnome sailor - all the geographic regions covered has their own specific narrator talking about the cities and regions), but even then just the half page or so on Lantan compares favorably to the entirity of the coverage we've had in all previous editions [I]combined[/I]... The races and classes section are chock-full of good stuff - too much to go into in detail, other than the fact that after I got the book today, I now have a variant tiefling, an arcana domain cleric (of Mystra), and a swashbuckler suddenly in my party... [/QUOTE]
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