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| paydirt2104-05-04, 04:04 PM | Silven Crossroads posted a review of Player's Guide to Faerūn on the 5th of April. Review Excerpt: "While the Player's Guide to Faerūn seems to lose focus near the end, overall it is an excellent book and is one of the top 3rd edition or later Forgotten Realms® accessories. If you are playing in or running a Forgotten Realms® campaign, you should find this book extremely useful especially for the mechanics that resemble the specialty priests of the old Faiths and Avatars book. It's one thing to have your character say, "I'm Samuel, Dawnbringer of Lathander." But, it's an entirely different thing to have that character be able to blast undead with beams of pure sunlight as a Morninglord. BAM! The feats and prestige classes and spells are definitely something to sink your teeth into." D&D Review: Player's Guide to Faerūn (http://www.silven.com/adnd.asp?case=show&id=284) |
| Mystery Man04-05-04, 04:09 PM | What, no 18's? BAH! |
| paydirt2104-05-04, 06:34 PM | I view our scoring system a little bit like a real bell curve. Giving a certain stat an 18 means that it is the best I have seen in recent memory. A 16 means that I would put it on my top shelf of games in regards for the statistic. If all the material were original and the book was more focused and didn't try to appeal to everyone and everything, then there would have been a couple of 18s. If you wanna see what an 18 Charisma would be, then get a hold of Construct Mechanus by Ronin Arts. |
| Klyden04-05-04, 10:35 PM | My personal rating. STR: 10 (Physical): My PGtF's front and back cover was bent before I bought it. Unfortunately it was the only one in stock. DEX: 16 (Organization): Pretty damn good but thats coming from me and I couldn't organize if my life depended on it (sad but true). CON: 15 (Quantity of the Content): Good stuff but lacking in substance (aka lacking in things making this book worth $33.00)INT: 11 (Quality of Content): A decent amount of the material is revised versions of old material. The original material is creative. WIS: 12 (Options & Adaptability): Missing links and plot holes make this book suffer from unanswered questions for some rules. CHA: 13 (Look & Feel): Cool art but adding the monsters or some extra material to thicken the book up would have been better. |
| paydirt2104-05-04, 10:56 PM | Thanks for the feedback and input. You can hardly blame the bad STR rating for your book on WOTC though. The charisma also entails the layout of the book (how the pages are laid out, text size, chapter headings, etc). I just really love how they are doing the layout for these recent FR books, and the art is very good too. Klyden, what books would you give a higher Charisma score to? |
| Klyden04-05-04, 10:59 PM | Your welcome. Yeah, the book was deformed all right. Nothing a big stack of hard books on top can't fix but deformed it was none the less. Wierd if you ask me. The Waldens in my area is usually good at selling good condition books. |
| paydirt2104-05-04, 11:02 PM | That's when you gotta whip out your Merchantile Background feat and haggle with them. "I'll give you half for this busted up book" |
| Klyden04-05-04, 11:07 PM | lol |
| Misyrr04-05-04, 11:14 PM | The two copies purchased by people in my group also suffered from a sort of deformity, the covers are slightly curved. I keep stacking all of my role-playing books (has to be more than 100 lb.) on top of my copy at night to try and straighten it, but it hasn't helped at all. :( |
| paydirt2104-06-04, 12:06 AM | maybe you should put it under your pillow at night, then you can learn it all by osmosis and straighten out the cover. ;) |
| Kuje3104-06-04, 01:01 AM | The warping of WOTC's hardback books has been discussed by many of us over the past two years. There really isn't much you can do to fix it except stack books on it. |
| Mystery Man04-06-04, 06:57 AM | I've found that eventually the warping goes away on its own, book stacking or no. Must be just one of those things. |