There is to be a D&D marathon overnight tomorrow. Four Gentlemen Nerds.Opening - Imagine a world of bold warriors, mighty wizards and terrible monsters.The art work alone is worth the skim through. Fab!
I've always been a fan of the forgotten realms as a setting. To my mind it is one of the most detailed, well-thought out fictional worlds specifically designed for gaming.The 3rd edition D&D version of the campaign setting updates the overarching meta-plot and is absolutely packed full of flavour an...
Desperately needs better indexing and cross-referencing. Otherwise, I'm a fan of the fourth edition rules.
Interesting... adding half dragon and half demonic races; but with all the math and modifiers, if this had been the book I found over 20 years ago, I'd never have played the game... and never met my better half!
Perhaps it's a measure of my geekhood but I take great pleasure in just reading volumes like this. For me, the attraction of RPGs has always been the "back story."Like MAR Barker (see my Tekumel entry), however, Ed Greenwood is better at imagining fantasy settings than writing about them -- I've tri...