Player's Guide to Faerun: Buying?

Liolel · Mar 20, 2004

Not buying it not going to. I don't run the forgotten realms, and there are so many other sources to mine ideas from that are campaign neutral.

johnsemlak · Mar 20, 2004

I'm visiting a FLGS in Helsinki next weekend and I'll look at it if they have it, but I don't plan on buying it. My FR campaign stopped a while back and we're gaining in other settings now.

johnsemlak · Mar 20, 2004

...Though I may pick it up later if I play in the Realms again.

One thing about WotC products is that most of them are easily available for quite a while so if I don't really need/want it, I wait on it. 3rd party products, on the other hand, I buy quicker if I decide it's a product I definitely want, even if not in the near future.

Gez · Mar 20, 2004

johnsemlak said:
I'm visiting a FLGS in Helsinki next weekend and I'll look at it if they have it, but I don't plan on buying it. My FR campaign stopped a while back and we're gaining in other settings now.

Wow! The game shop the closest to Moscow is in Helsinki?
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Brother Ezra · Mar 20, 2004

The only thing in the entire book that I'm even remotely interested in is the regional updates. I have already updated the prestige classes that I will use IMC to 3.5, and I don't use the regional feats. Too much crunch, not enough fluff. I buy FR for the fluffiness, dammit

Altalazar · Mar 20, 2004

I am buying, because a junkie has to get his fix.

Faraer · Mar 20, 2004

This is largely a book of rules updates labelled 'Player's Guide' because it's a more appealing title. As a Realms fan, I'd like to have the bits of actual new material (the planar information, the timeline update), but the book doesn't have much to excite me to spend all that money. (The new Thames & Hudson book on the art of the Picts looks more interesting.) An actual Realms player's guide (with lore players in a Realms campaign should know) I'd get, no question.

For someone who doesn't use the Realms, I don't think (not having seen it) the book is much less campaign-neutral than a 'generic' title set in an implicit setting that just doesn't have a name, history or context.