The Unapproachable East

[Fenes 2]

My all-favorite FR 3E-sourcebook is still the Lords of Darkness - so much material for DMing, complete with tables if you need cannon fodder quickly.

 

[JPL]

Re: Re: The Unapproachable East

I really hope it is so. I really find players who like elves really don't have enough subrace choices in the Realms. Really clearly not enough elves. After all, who need something wholly new when you can have a new variant of elves ?

Well, if these are, in fact, Spelljammer elves, they're not really new.

And there are a lot of non-elf choices on deck, too.

But why censor "star elves"? Hmmm...

 

[Knight of Neraka]

Star Elves

Most likely the Star Elf is a group of elves that wandered east or something. You already have the Moon Elf, the Sun Elf, now a Star Elf (hippies), a pretty celestial group of elves

 

[JPL]

Well, I could be totally off-base about the star elf thing...

But maybe this ties into Something Big? I mean, otherwise, why try to keep it secret?

 

[Orias]

Like others said, I would love to see a Halruaa book. That happens to be my favorite Realms country. I would like to also see what is going on with Cormyr & The City of Shade, being that those are two huge Realms issues that for the past year hasn't relaly been touched on except in novels.

 

[Davelozzi]

Centaurs?

Regarding the censored race, star elf does seem pretty likely considering its later mention. However, another possibility is centaur. IIRC. there's supposed to be a large centuar population in the woods of the Great Dale, and there was a centaur main character in one of the old Harper novels that was set in the area. Plus it fits alphabetically, before gnoll.

 

[jester47]

Marches was good, Lords of Darkness was too. I think we can expect a city of splendours book soon because strangely missing from the LoD was the Xanthanars guild. I think they plan on covering it in whatever waterdeep supplement they come up with. However I wish that they would cover the rest of the north and the heartlands before they cover everything else.

One pet peave that I had about Silver Marches was that there was not an entry for every thingon the map in the geography section. Some of the town you had to dig for to find out about. That does not mean not everything on the map was mentioned, it just was not that accesible. Other wise it is a great book.

Aaron.

 

[jester47]

I would bet star elf...


Aaron.

 

[haiiro]

That's right - the 1e FR box even said as much. Something like "Oh, and this country over here we leave open so you can do stuff there on your own."
The idea is sound, but Sembia was a poor choice in the matter. It's too central - the heart of FR is Cormyr, the Dalelands and the Moonsea. Sembia is right in the middle of that. . It would have been better if they had used Unther or some other out-of-the-way place instead.

I actually liked the fact that they chose such a central location to leave undeveloped. What sort of nation you decide Sembia to be will affect every other region nearby, without having to subtract a bunch of existing info from the setting -- as you would have to do if you made drastic changes to one of the existing countries. I think that's pretty cool, and it remains one of my favorite things about that boxed set.

Edit: clarification.

 

[JoeGKushner]

I'm sure it'll be like crunchy peanut butter -- plenty of cream holding the crunch together.

So long as it sells (I'm buying) -- I'm hoping for a future 3E version of the Dalelands, Cormyr, or Waterdeep and the need the sales to encourage WOTC.

Say, we haven't had a string city-based product for 3E have we? Not a WOTC, anyway. Come on, WOTC -- update City of Splendors!

Last thing on earth I'd want to see. So many 1st and 2nd edition versions of these products that it'll be a long time before I need to see them again, especially with so many other, worthy places to go to and see.

I do agree that we need a citybook but I completely disagree that it needs to be Waterdeep.