Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide, 4th Edition by Bruce R. Cordell, Ed Greenwood, Chris Sims, Philip Athans Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide, 4th Edition
Book Review: New Realms
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is great for anyone starting out in the Forgotten Realms, as there is a clean slate from which to begin your campaign. For the avid Realms fans, there is enough information to carry you over into 4th and many of your favorite characters and locales are still there for you to enjoy. Overall, a good start for Forgotten Realms in the 4th edition setting, very impressive.Book Review: Fluff?
Summary: 1 Stars
Unfurtunately for me, I didn't buy this book from amazon, trying to be loyal to my local game store.
The tragic result of this being that I paid almost $40 (taxes, blech) for garbage, instead of $25 for garbage.
If you are going to stab me for $40, sell me something that doesn't make me feel like I should have taken 2 twenties, set them on fire, and saved myself the trip to get this wretched thing.
Intricacies aside, which have already been discussed by other reviews, I would like to point out that I actually like 4E. I like the play, the build options available for multiple classes, and adjustable difficulties in the monster manual.
Paladins that aren't human, or have an 18 charisma?
This means you have more than a 1/216 chance to be able to play one.
Fighters can do more than smash heads, halflings have a point to playing them apart from size advantage in combat, Wizards can influence battle in the scale to which they are intended, and (imagine this) don't have to sit on the bench every time there is a fight.
However this book is a farce.
Not the funny, Mel Brooks-type farce.
Light your $20 bills on fire, save the shipping.
Book Review: How times have changed
Summary: 5 Stars
In keeping pace with the release of the 4th edition, FR has shaken things up themselves. 100yrs have passed and the landscape although familiar, has changed drastically. The book describes the events and changes in a manner that is easily understood for firstimers to the realms and devistastingly brutal to the oldtimers. A few points of interest are detailed in depth, but for the most part, descriptions are generalized allowing DM's their creative input. I enjoyed reading about the changes to the realms, almost as much as I anticipate adventuring within them.Book Review: Not a bad read
Summary: 3 Stars
This book was interesting to read but I think the map could have been done better. Book Review: It's all about adventuring opportunities
Summary: 4 Stars
Very good book with a lot of adventures hooks
The 4e FRCG offers more directly useful information than the 3e FRCS.
Everything in a 4e region entry is useful to you as a GM, whereas there's info in a 3e region entry that many GMs likely won't use.It matches up with the feel of the PHB and DMG. It's all about adventuring opportunities in a points-of-light world, and less about painting a tapestry of cultural details about the Realms
I didn't like the index, it leaves out all the details I might actually want to find in a index