Waterdeep old products [Archive] - Wizards Community

Waterdeep old products [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Flecha
03-22-06, 11:01 AM I must say, I like Waterdeep. It's origin -as the starting point of Greenwood's campaign- brings me memories of the good old days of roleplaying, when campaigns were usually a labour of love, while today it's difficult to find gamemasters than just run a couple sessions withouth even reading the books.

I like the Realms as it's the best fantasy campaign ever created for roleplaying, like playing in Middle Earth but with freedom to roam and do great things. And since urban fantasy gaming is so atractive -almost to me-, I find Waterdeep irresistible.

In fact, it's an old first edition product about Waterdeep that still makes me fascinated with this kind of gaming, as it's this one. Just two words.

City System.

Yes, I have it. Twice, in fact.

I plan to put one all over the wall of my home's gaming room.

The thing is that I don't own any of the 2nd edition Waterdeep products (namely "Waterdeep" and "Waterdeep and the north"). Just could skim over the first some time ago, and my impression is that it was more meaty than the current D20 book. For those of you that own them and played, am I right in this? Should I get those products on ebay right away? What about your gaming in Waterdeep?

Cheers!
Faraer
03-22-06, 12:08 PM FR1 Waterdeep and the North is 64 pages, small 'mouse type'. The City of Splendors boxed set is a much bigger (loss-making) work that incorporates most of FR1 (losing mainly the adventures) with much new information: the fullest treatment of Waterdeep to date. Volo's Guide to Waterdeep has a different focus: individual neighbourhoods and mostly commercial buildings, is the best street-level sourcebook on the city, and doesn't overlap much either with FR1/CoS or the new City of Splendors: Waterdeep, which does an admirable job, given its page count, of summarizing as much old lore as possible and adding as much new lore. (City System, for those who don't have it, is a box of large-scale poster maps making a huge tapestry of the Waterdeep, plus some building plans, an artistic view of the city, and a booklet mostly incorporated into the 1994 City of Splendors.)

I would get all three, and the Ed Greenwood/Elaine Cunningham novel The City of Splendors.
Flecha
03-24-06, 08:42 AM Thanks, pal! I'll get them all as soon as I can at ebay. The Volo book seems specially interesting...
Old Sage
03-24-06, 08:57 AM You can try nobleknight.com and dragontrove.com also... for printed copies of these Waterdeep sourcebooks.

And if you don't mind PDFs, I suggest you visit paizo.com for PDF versions of these tomes for just $4 US.
Tiruvel
03-28-06, 08:30 AM Hello, there's some old products here: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads. I didn't find Waterdeep, but there's some other Volo guides. Just though I'd mention it. :)

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Flecha 03-22-06, 11:01 AM	I must say, I like Waterdeep. It's origin -as the starting point of Greenwood's campaign- brings me memories of the good old days of roleplaying, when campaigns were usually a labour of love, while today it's difficult to find gamemasters than just run a couple sessions withouth even reading the books. I like the Realms as it's the best fantasy campaign ever created for roleplaying, like playing in Middle Earth but with freedom to roam and do great things. And since urban fantasy gaming is so atractive -almost to me-, I find Waterdeep irresistible. In fact, it's an old first edition product about Waterdeep that still makes me fascinated with this kind of gaming, as it's this one. Just two words. City System. Yes, I have it. Twice, in fact. I plan to put one all over the wall of my home's gaming room. The thing is that I don't own any of the 2nd edition Waterdeep products (namely "Waterdeep" and "Waterdeep and the north"). Just could skim over the first some time ago, and my impression is that it was more meaty than the current D20 book. For those of you that own them and played, am I right in this? Should I get those products on ebay right away? What about your gaming in Waterdeep? Cheers!
Faraer 03-22-06, 12:08 PM	FR1 Waterdeep and the North is 64 pages, small 'mouse type'. The City of Splendors boxed set is a much bigger (loss-making) work that incorporates most of FR1 (losing mainly the adventures) with much new information: the fullest treatment of Waterdeep to date. Volo's Guide to Waterdeep has a different focus: individual neighbourhoods and mostly commercial buildings, is the best street-level sourcebook on the city, and doesn't overlap much either with FR1/CoS or the new City of Splendors: Waterdeep, which does an admirable job, given its page count, of summarizing as much old lore as possible and adding as much new lore. (City System, for those who don't have it, is a box of large-scale poster maps making a huge tapestry of the Waterdeep, plus some building plans, an artistic view of the city, and a booklet mostly incorporated into the 1994 City of Splendors.) I would get all three, and the Ed Greenwood/Elaine Cunningham novel The City of Splendors.
Flecha 03-24-06, 08:42 AM	Thanks, pal! I'll get them all as soon as I can at ebay. The Volo book seems specially interesting...
Old Sage 03-24-06, 08:57 AM	You can try nobleknight.com and dragontrove.com also... for printed copies of these Waterdeep sourcebooks. And if you don't mind PDFs, I suggest you visit paizo.com for PDF versions of these tomes for just $4 US.
Tiruvel 03-28-06, 08:30 AM	Hello, there's some old products here: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads. I didn't find Waterdeep, but there's some other Volo guides. Just though I'd mention it. :)