Who bought the Silver Munches?

[Telor]

I bought it the day it arrived. I had to choose between ELH and SM since I didn't have the cash for both. I'm getting the ELH tomorrow... yes my hobby shop owner was amazed I picked SM over ELH.

3 of the 5 PCs in our group are from the Silver Marches. I've been making the best effort to be accurate with 2e and 3e FRCS stuff but this book allows me to be extremely accurate.

I have a druid in my group and so long as we're in that region I can give him detailed weather reports (and I'm currently extending the weather coverage to the rest of Toril, what an excellent crunchy bit). I used to just think in my head, 'umm... its winter... its partly cloudy/snowing today' or 'umm... its summer its pouring/sunny today.'

Being able to hand the group a map of Silverymoon (our elected base since 5 months ago) was great. We all love handouts.

I've been using all the FR books as much as possible. My reasons: full-time college student, 2 jobs, and a lovely fiance. I wish I had the time to ponder my own multiverse with all its inhabitants. Until that day, Toril and its planes have been doing a wonderful job.

I'm glad there are no new feats or skill uses and the 6 PrCs are suited for NPCs. I don't need anymore of that stuff; the previous class books and FR books have covered enough stuff. Although I would like to see some kind of 'Melee of Faerun.'

I can't wait until the mega-adventure comes out. I could actually play some video games in my spare time. Woohoo!

-Telor

 

[teitan]

I got the Silver Marches on Monday, been waiting for it for a long time. It is really excellent, surprisingly so. I was always bored by setting books because they were dry as in text book dry, but this one ranks up there with anything WHite Wolf did for flavor text in WOD or Scarred Lands. Just good, good stuff here. I just started a SM campaign and this book will be invaluable to me and my book. My PCs are even getting copies to help keep the fluff in the Realms. The price is better than past books have been. Have the execs realized that the price of Realms books is part of what hurts the sales of those books? I would not be upset if it went B&W again to save on production costs and some good high quality art can be executed in B&W, heck, look at Mike Mignola, he could do DnD books and make a killing. Wayne Reynolds is also just amazing in B&W. Color should be in the hardbacks and B&W in the Paperbacks.

I think a happy medium can be maintained to a limited degree. You need fluff or the crunch becomes boring. A lot of the class books had some really nice Greyhawk Fluff, but then again they also seemed lacking in fluff for me. The PrCes made no sense to me in any context as to how they could fit in my campaign setting or where the hey they even fit in Greyhawk. Defenders of the Faith and Sword and Fist had some nice Greyhawk fluff, but not enough to get me into a Greyhawk campaing. I switched to FR because of the fluff. It makes or breaks a setting. Fluff is just crucial to make a world exist. Fluff is the ingredients that make the cake and crunch is the icing that sets the fluff in motion.

These idiotic Hasbro mandates are part of why I started checking out the Scarred Lands, just a nice price on all the books and very high quality stuff. SOme rules gaffs, but those are not even a hassle to fix at all. Just good setting material for me. Unique and virant world. Dark Sun meets Greyhawk would be a good comparison.

Teit

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