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Well, Sage, if you moved to the USA, you won't have to wait for stuff. Troy MO is a nice place, if a bit empty.

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Originally posted by Jeremy Grenemyer

It was my understanding that Ed's players voted not to play through the Time of Troubles. So their timeline continues, sans ToT.

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I like that idea...but did you ever hear of any events which caused any of the "Dead Three" to be killed off in his game, Bane returning, or Midnight/Kelemvor/Cyric ascending?

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No... Why? We already know this book contains some info that is not strictly related to Ed's home Realms...

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Originally posted by Dalor Darden

I like that idea...but did you ever hear of any events which caused any of the "Dead Three" to be killed off in his game, Bane returning, or Midnight/Kelemvor/Cyric ascending?

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Originally posted by George Krashos

Well mine has just been re-ordered from the supplier. It won't even ship till 10/11/12 at the earliest. Not happy.

-- George Krashos

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Let's face it, if you're a fan of the Forgotten Realms, you know there has been a lot of material released for the setting.

None of it has been like this.

We've had books detailing areas of the Realms. We've had histories of nations, lists of rulers, and broad overviews of towns within those nations. We've had maps of castles and dungeons. We've learned the secrets of innkeepers. We've learned about the plants and critters found in a region, and the magic used in that area.

That's not this book.

We've had books detailing power groups of the Realms. We know about avatars. We've read about trading companies, churches, power-hungry mages, knightly orders, xenophobic elves, noble houses, and adventuring bands.

That's not this book.

We've had books detailing the magic of the Realms. We've learned about magical tomes, powerful spells, wondrous items, and the magic used by a noteworthy group of female siblings. We know about mage sigils, flying ships, gemstones that can be turned into ioun stones, and of a magical hangover cure.

That's not this book.

What we've never really had is a book about *living* in the Realms. We've never had a book that listed Realms-specific common words. We've never had a book that discusses how temples earn money. We've never had a book that discusses elven cuisine. We've never had a book that discussed the flow of trade and those who facilitate this flow. We've never had a book that discussed hygiene in the Realms.

In other words, we've never had a book that shows us the Realms from the perspective of the common 0-level NPC. We've been told about the history, lands, magic, and movers and shakers of the Realms, but we've never learned how people of the Realms are shaped by that history, what their lives in those lands are like, how they view magic, and how they are protected and/or used by those movers and shakers.

This is that book.

Don't pick up this book expecting rules. Don't pick up this book expecting you're going to get lots of nifty new things to write down on your character sheet. Don't pick up this book thinking you're going to get history or another regional splatbook.

Pick up this book expecting to see life in the Realms. Pick up this book to make the setting come alive for your character. Pick up this book expecting something that will tell you how your character lives when he's not slinging a spell or swinging his sword.

Pick up this book for those countless little minor details too small to be mentioned in novels that rush about blowing up the setting. Pick up this book to help you understand living in the Realms.

This book is for those who want to keep the role in their RPG.

Ed Greenwood has spent decades thinking of every single aspect of life in this sprawling wonderland he's shared with us. This book holds the words of the master; this is him sharing what he sees when he looks at the Realms.

The Realms is more than spells, monsters, wizards, and drow. The Realms is history and wonder intertwined. The Realms is where stories happen. And this book shares the facts of life for those characters living those stories.

This book is the Realms.

One can only hope that we'll have many sequels to this wonderful resource.

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Originally posted by The Sage

Sorry Krash!.

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Originally posted by crazedventurers

Sigh it has been pushed back a month in the UK - Amazon wont be delivering to me now before Dec 14
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert

I just did something I never do... I posted a review on the Amazon. And it was of this book, because I really want to see more.

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Some higher directive might require the balance of gods be maintained, so that if one slays the war god, one must take his place. The DM can in this manner remove characters of stratospheric level from the campaign. Another mechanism for keeping things under control is the “Godswar.” This concept is also a good justification
to cover the changeover of a campaign from D&D rules to AD&D rules and will also justify any other divine revisions the DM feels necessary, once. Simply put, the Godswar is strife among the gods —- direct, physical battle in which gods are destroyed, or their powers
undone, wrested from them, or distorted, and a new hierarchy is created.

The most important feature of this conflict is that worshippers are not involved; all clerics and other servants are completely cut off from their deities — unable to communicate with them, renew spells above 2nd level, or receive accurate or complete information regarding the war afterwards (for deities may not wish to tell all to just any mortal.

The Godswar truly can cover a “multitude of sins,” in the manner described in the battle between the Vom and the Guardian in Alan Dean Foster’s novel Bloodhype; side effects of the energy released
in the conflict can transform or teleport landscapes, people, and any
number of items on the various planes.

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Originally posted by PaulBestwick

My copy is on order, but it is my Christmas gift from my girlfriend, so no reading of it until December 25th , when I expect to get into trouble for ignoring her and everyone else because I will be reading my book .

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Originally posted by BlackAce

Without kicking off Edition War MMXXXVII, as someone who walked off into the sunset with the advent of the Spell Plague and is curmudgeonly wary of 'edition neutral' stuff should I or shouldn't I purchase this?

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Originally posted by BlackAce

Without kicking off Edition War MMXXXVII, as someone who walked off into the sunset with the advent of the Spell Plague and is curmudgeonly wary of 'edition neutral' stuff should I or shouldn't I purchase this?

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