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lelorien
Acolyte
Canada
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 Posted - 19 Dec 2006 : 21:42:10
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What version of d&d Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (3rd Edition) is compatible with?
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Mace Hammerhand
Great Reader
Germany
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Posted - 19 Dec 2006 : 21:58:55
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| The information can probably be used for every edition, the stats only for 3rd and 3.5. 3.5 may need some adjustments tho, which are found in the Player's Guide to Faerūn. |
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lelorien
Acolyte
Canada
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Posted - 20 Dec 2006 : 00:34:24
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turox
Learned Scribe
USA
145 Posts |
Posted - 20 Dec 2006 : 00:43:38
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| Yes, you see they brought out 3rd edition and then a bit later changed to 3.5 version. So when they made the Players Guide to Faerun the updated it instead of putting out another FRCS book. |
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Blackwill
Seeker
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lelorien
Acolyte
Canada
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Posted - 21 Dec 2006 : 19:35:41
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| Well isn't it better to get the players guide to fearūn than the forgoten realms campaign setting? What are the differences? |
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Kuje
Great Reader
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Posted - 21 Dec 2006 : 19:40:11
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Well isn't it better to get the players guide to fearūn than the forgoten realms campaign setting? What are the differences?
I'd say no, it's not. The FRCS has a lot more info since it's double the pages of the Player's Guide. However, the Player's Guide has the updates to the rules for 3.5e plus a few other lore related items like the details of the Return of the Archwizards trilogy and book 1 to 3 of the Spider Queen series and then a little more about the new cosmology.
Basically most of the Player's Guide is just updates for 3.5e while the FRCS has pages and pages of lore. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 21 Dec 2006 : 23:31:09
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Originally posted by Kuje
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Originally posted by lelorien
Well isn't it better to get the players guide to fearūn than the forgoten realms campaign setting? What are the differences?
I'd say no, it's not. The FRCS has a lot more info since it's double the pages of the Player's Guide. However, the Player's Guide has the updates to the rules for 3.5e plus a few other lore related items like the details of the Return of the Archwizards trilogy and book 1 to 3 of the Spider Queen series and then a little more about the new cosmology.
Basically most of the Player's Guide is just updates for 3.5e while the FRCS has pages and pages of lore.
At most you'll likely want both -- if only because of the "Campaign Journal" section in the PGtF which updates FR source material up to the end of the RotAW trilogy and Condemnation of the WotSQ series.
The expanded planar cosmology section is also a treat, especially if you make use of the revised Great Tree planar structure, as originally detailed in the FRCS 3e, in your campaigns.
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