Useful Forgotten Realms products for other campaigns

[Knightfall]

Ok people, which Forgotten Realms 3E products do you consider the most useful in other campaign settings? How's the convertablity-cost ratio of these products?

(I have the FRCS and Lord of Darkness but have balked at buying any of the other products due to expense.)

Opinions?

 

[Dagger75]

Magic of Fearun is pretty cool, so is the monster manuel. I also like the Archmage prestige class from FRCS and use that quite often.

If you use DM screens the FRSC one is pretty handy

 

[EricNoah]

Magic of Fearun is pretty cool, so is the monster manuel. I also like the Archmage prestige class from FRCS and use that quite often.

If you use DM screens the FRSC one is pretty handy

Hate to say a "me too" but ... me too -- Magic of Faerun in particular.

 

[Crothian]

Magic of Fearun is by far the most useful. I also really like Silver Marshes. Reading through the book gave me great ideas and ways to expand areas in my world that are similiar.

 

[ThomasBJJ]

I have liked most of the FR 3E stuff so far. I do not yet have City of the Spider Queen, or Silver Marches. And AVOID Pool of Radiance Attack on Myth Drannor & Into the Dragon's Lair.

FR Campaign Setting had pleanty of great stuff. Spells, feats, PrCs, ...

Monsters of Fearun is nice too.

 

[Fast Learner]

Thumbs down to Monsters of Faerun, but a big thumbs up to Magic of Faerun: lots of great spells. Some are a bit overpowered, but still lots of great ideas for importing into your campaign.

 

[the Jester]

Oh, I dunno, Monsters of Faerun was okay. I didn't bother with any of the others since I don't run FR and I didn't think enough of it was worth the price to me (I didn't think I'd use much of it). (Nothing against FR, I just prefer my campaign world.)

Anyway, a bunch of the monsters are old-school good ones like the deepspawn, firenewt, bullywug, shadow dragon, etc. There really aren't that many things too exclusively FR. A lot of stuff can be adapted into a game pretty easily; I used a ghaunadan as a cleric of Juiblex, f'rinstance.

Like I said, I haven't checked the other stuff out too much.

 

[psionotic]

Magic of Faerun is one of the best 3E products Wizards has put out, in my opinion. The FRCS also has some great rules stuff for other campaigns, but its $40 price tag makes it best for those who will actually run or play there.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Jester, this wouldn't be a cleric of Juiblex inspired by my Deity-A-Week thread, would it?

I nominate Magic very highly as well. Monsters is good, because you can never have too many.

The rest...meh....I'm even debating Races, to tell you the truth.

 

[the Jester]

No, actually I love Juiblex... it was a sewer adventure I ran a couple of months back. I did enjoy your version a great deal, though!

Yes, there was this pc cleric of Juiblex imc back in 1e... it was my first experience with interparty treachery: he waited until the rest of the party was on the verge of unconsciousness and slew them all. I didn't really know what to do, but I just kinda ran with it. He ended up being a very long-running evil pc in my campaign world, finally coming to a truly terrible end.

I was a novice dm at the time, really, and had no idea it was coming. Live and learn.

I also played in a 'Juiblex and the Slime-Mold Mafia' campaign that a friend ran in 2e where you could play almost anything (I was a doppleganger, there was a faerie dragon, a tako, an undead, a vegepygmie, a crabman, etc) that was hilarious. We were an evil party and we had some wild adventures with the big J as our patron, but we rapidly left his service to do our own thing. Ya know how it is.