Realms - Lords of Darkness vs Champions of Ruin

[Elodan]

Can anyone tell me what the difference between these two books is? They both seem to cover the same material.

Thanks.

 

[Nightfall]

Lords of Darkness is 3.0 stuff mostly but it covers in better detail (IMHO) societies, power groups, and peoples of influence in the evil aspects of the Realms

CoR deals with 3.5 stuff, some looks at a few new races. Overall I was vastly disappointed in both since NEITHER dealt with what I consider the best and most overlooked evil powers in the realms, the Archfiends. Sure we got a mention and statting of Eltab. So what? Eltab is a pozer compared to the likes of Fraz'uur'luub, Pazuzu, Orcus, Graz'zt, and a few others. Basically I was looking for Champions of Ruin to devle deeper into their cults, their followers etc. Neither did any thing close to adequate for me.

Regardless there you are.