Serpent Kingdoms - What Are You Doing With It?

[Davelozzi]

Sorry, Darrin, but I'm another one who's just got it sitting on the shelf. I do think it's a great book, but I'm not running FR anymore, and really just picked it up since it covers some parts of the Realms that were never detailed before. Though I don't have any plans to return to the Realms anytime soon, it may see some use next time one of my games takes us to a yuan-ti friendly-climate, but there's no signs of the current campaign heading there in the near future.

 

[Snotlord]

I'm not using it, but I enjoy reading the realmslore section.

I hope to use it when I get around to run the Dungeon Cauldron series. With SS (with its realmslore from the North) and some minor tweaking I should be able to set it in Neverwinter, which I think is great.
The realmslore from the North will be useful if I set the next campaign in Waterdeep (which is likely, with the new book coming out soon).

The ready-to-use villains and mini adventures are also cool, and I should be able to use then at some point. A cool book.

 

[Henry]

Serpent Kingdoms has to fall into the category of "Book I most wanted but couldn't justify buying." I don't have an active FR campaign, nor a campaign that uses anything vaguely serpentine, and probably won't for six months or more. The problem is that there have been many Eberron based products that have been capturing my imagination lately; therefore, WotC's been capturing my dollar, but just not on that particular book.

 

[MetalBard]

Reading it for now...

Well, since I helped write it, I'm curious. If you bought it, are you using it, or is it just another fancy looking book on the shelf? If you are using it, what parts are you using?

Well, for now, I'm reading it. I've only been able to read in-depth the Yuan-ti section, but my perusiing over the geography section is proving quite fruitful as well. I hope to read through the entire book in preparation for starting a new FR campaign in Calimport (or eventually getting to Calimport and based out of there). The campaign wouldn't start for a while, since a year ago I finished running a four year FR campaign and now I'm playing in a Dragonlance game. Once I start the campaign, though, Serpent Kingdoms will feature prominently in my next campaign. Assassins, naga/yuan-ti rivalries, sarrukh scariness... all in lovely Calimport, with fantastic access to scenic locales like Chult, Thindol, Tashalar, Lushpool and others...

 

[DM_Jeff]

Serpent Kingdoms

Well, since I helped write it, I'm curious. If you bought it, are you using it, or is it just another fancy looking book on the shelf? If you are using it, what parts are you using?

A large number of beasties from the tome are currently on swampland encounter lists in my homebrew campaign, and it is currently being researched for my Forgotten Realms game as the group is about to stumble into a portal leading there. Made the area much more interesting and active than the older descriptions.

-DM Jeff

 

[Ryltar]

It is one of the bases my new homebrew's gonna be built on - it's gonna be a post-cataclysmic era with the Scaled Ones being the Lords (and Ladies ) over man- and elvenkind. I'm really looking forward as to how this plays out.

 

[edbonny]

A conjurer I play in the Realms is using a few spells from SS. As I am not DMing now and our current game is set in and around the High Forest, I am mostly using the book for potential spells/items that my character could use (that and a good read of the snaky cultures there).

However, our next campaign is supposed to be an evil-ish party and my first choice of character is a yuan-ti (if the DM approves).

And (almost forgot), I expanded on the yuan-ti who traveled to the Nameless Dungeon for Lost Empires of Faerun. If you wrote that part, thank you!

- Ed

 

[Darrin Drader]

I believe Eric Boyd wrote that part.

I wrote the chapter on the sarrukh, as well as the chapters on the Hidden ones, and the other common races (troglodytes, Asabis, etc.).

 

[BlackFalconKY]

Oriental Twist

My party is currently in Kara-Tur after stumbling through a damaged portal outside Scardale. They've been there for some time trying to find some acceptance in T'u Lung. They are currently working as liasons with the local military trying to stop the Xin Nang barbarians along the Malatran border from raiding into T'u Lung. They learned last session that the Xin Nang are not particularly interested in war with T'u Lung, but they are being forced northward by "lizardfolk" in the south.

Soon to come will be where the party discovers the lizard creatures are led by a yuan-ti cell and a ssvaklor. Several of the feats, spells, monsters, and prestige classes from Serpent Kingdoms are right on the cusp of exploding into my campaign. Should be fun.

Charles Plemons

 

[Mapleaxe]

My current home brew is set in a jungle and the yuan-ti are definitely big shadow players in the setting, so I've gotten a lot of use out of the book--mostly snake themed creatures from the monster section and some pieces of equipment like the fang beads. Definitely worth my money.