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| Mystery_Man |
Posted - 16 Jan 2006 : 13:57:07
Another thread on another board got me thinking...
Here's mine:
1. Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting
2. Faiths and Pantheons
3. Silver Marches
4. Player's Guide to Faerun
5. Races of Faerun
6. City of Splendors
7. Lost Empires of Faerun
8. Serpent Kindoms
9. Lords of Darkness
10. Underdark |
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| Skeptic |
Posted - 17 Jan 2006 : 18:35:27
Sorting out 10 products over 20 can be unfair, anyone interested in a top10 all-editions product ? |
| Alexander Heppe |
Posted - 17 Jan 2006 : 16:46:53
My Top 10 would be:
1)Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (First place is a no brainer)
2)Silver Marches (Best Regional Expansion. Ever! Nice Fluff)
3)Magic of Faerūn (To bring even more wonders to a wonderful world)
4)Players Guide to Faerūn (3.5 Crunchy Crunch)
5)Faiths and Pantheons (Realms without gods, pardon me, powers? no way!)
6)Races of Faerūn (Yep, need that to play, and to build better NPCs, nice flavour, a lot of stuff on humans and culture, good book)
7)Lords of Darkness (Bad Guys, oh yeah, and a lots of them, plus where tey're hanging out)
8)Lost Empires of Faerūn (a bag of holding of campaign ideas for burned out DMs, nice history update)
9)City of Splendors:Waterdeep (one of my realms "wannabethere"-places, love that book)
10) Monsters of Faerūn (outdated for being 3E, but still fun to read, nice pics)
because those are the books I use primarily. For the following I have hardly found a use yet (although most of the material ain't bad, don't get me wrong):
Dungeon Masters Screen (never really had much use for it)
Unapproachable East (I'd definitely would love to get my players there, very good book)
Underdark (environment too deadly, supplement too disappointing)
Serpent Kingdoms (nice race related info, but for my campaign, no thanks)
Shining South (never had the chance to get my players to go there - maybe too exotic)
Champions of Ruin (Some nice ideas for a DM to exploit, but not much for me)
Champions of Valor (too good for my taste) |
| Reefy |
Posted - 17 Jan 2006 : 16:35:38
1. Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting
2. Silver Marches
3. Races Of Faerūn
4. City Of Splendours: Waterdeep
5. Lost Empires Of Faerūn
6. Lords Of Darkness
7. Shining South
8. Serpent Kingdoms
9. Faiths And Pantheons
10. Unapproachable East |
| Bluenose |
Posted - 17 Jan 2006 : 15:40:14
I'd suggest that there's one essential book:
Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting. An absolute necessity for anyone using the Forgotten Realms.
The ones I find most useful as a player:
Players Guide to Faerun. It may not be an outstanding book, but I don't believe players can manage without it.
Races of Faerun. Even without as much information as it could have, it's a great improvement on the other race material.
Magic of Faerun. A good "feel" for magic in the Realms
Champions of Valour and/or Champions of Ruin. Aspirational. And a look at what some of your powerful enemies might be like.
For DMs:
Lost Empires of Faerun. So much of the Realms is built around it's history that I don't think you can manage without this as a source of lore and inspiration for adventures.
Lords of Darkness. Meet the bad guys.
Faiths and Pantheons. Though I think most players would find this useful too.
Silver Marches. Maybe not the best of the regional sourcebooks, but it's an interesting area and it's where the campaign I'm DMing plays, so I'm allowed to be biased in it's favour. |
| Firhyanda |
Posted - 17 Jan 2006 : 15:08:49
Greetings
1) The Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting.
2) City of Splendors: Waterdeep
3) Faiths and Pantheons
4) Magic of Faerun
5) Lost Empires of Faerun
6) Shining South
7) Silver Marches
8) Races of Faerun
9) Serpent Kingdoms
10) Unapprocheable East
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| Mystery_Man |
Posted - 17 Jan 2006 : 14:06:59
BTW y'all this isn't a first to worst list but rather the books you find most useful when running your games etc. My list of books are the ones that affect me most and the books I get the most use out of. |
| Eremite |
Posted - 17 Jan 2006 : 13:35:32
quote:
Originally posted by Mystery_Man Hey! Make your own list buddy! 
OK, but mine will be in alphabetical order (;)): Champions of Valour, Faiths & Pantheons, FRCS, Lords of Darkness, Lost Empires of Faerun, Magic of Faerun, Races of Faerun, Silver Marches, Unapproachable East, Underdark.
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| Shadovar |
Posted - 17 Jan 2006 : 11:58:02
1) The Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting.
2) Lords of Darkness
3) Lost Empires of Faerun
4) City of Splendors: Waterdeep
5) Faiths and Pantheons
6) Champions of Valor
7) Champions of Ruin
8) Magic of Faerun
9) UnderDark
10) Shining South |
| TonyMontana1638 |
Posted - 16 Jan 2006 : 23:20:57
I'm not going to make a list just because it wouldn't be doing some of the books justice, but I've enjoyed the campaign setting, Champions of Valor and City of Splendors books the most. I honestly didn't like the player's guide at all. It's pretty necessary to at least have the Guide at hand, I didn't find it all that enlightening: I thought more of just a rehash of the campaign setting. |
| Fletcher |
Posted - 16 Jan 2006 : 20:22:16
1: Forgotten Realms Campaing Setting
2: Lost Empires of Faerun
3: City of Splendors - Waterdeep
4: Silver Marches
5: Races of Faerun
6: Shining South
7: Unapproacheable East
8: Champions of Valor
9: Underdark
10: Champions of Ruin |
| Chosen of Moradin |
Posted - 16 Jan 2006 : 19:24:15
Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting
Lost Empires of Faerūn
Races of Faerūn
Champions of Valor
Champions of Ruin
Lords of Darkness
Serpent Kingdoms
Magic of Faerūn
City of Splendors - Waterdeep
Unapprocheable East
But to speak clearly, I find something that I like in all FR stuff  |
| Arivia |
Posted - 16 Jan 2006 : 19:12:45
Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting
Lost Empires of Faerun
City of Splendors: Waterdeep
Races of Faerun
Silver Marches
Serpent Kingdoms
Shining South
Magic of Faerun
Champions of Valor
Champions of Ruin
No rankings, though.
The ones not on that list either add little to 2e material I have(Lords of Darkness) or are just rules updates(the Player's Guide to Faerun). |
| Snotlord |
Posted - 16 Jan 2006 : 16:14:16
The top 4 slots are easy.
1. Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting
2. Lords of Darkness
3. Silver Marches
4. Player's Guide to Faerun
5. Faiths and Pantheons
6. Unapproachable East
7. City of Splendors
8. Lost Empires of Faerun
9. Shining South
10. City of the Spider Queen
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| Mystery_Man |
Posted - 16 Jan 2006 : 15:04:30
quote:
Originally posted by Eremite
I find that a tough question to answer as I have been really pleased with pratically all of the FR stuff released for 3E/3.5E.
I would find a way to include Unapproachable East in your list as I have found that to be one of the most inspirational books released, insofar as inspiring ideas for campaigns; ditto for Underdark (although it is already on your list).
Hey! Make your own list buddy! |
| Eremite |
Posted - 16 Jan 2006 : 14:50:00
I find that a tough question to answer as I have been really pleased with pratically all of the FR stuff released for 3E/3.5E.
I would find a way to include Unapproachable East in your list as I have found that to be one of the most inspirational books released, insofar as inspiring ideas for campaigns; ditto for Underdark (although it is already on your list). |
