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The Player's Guide to the Forgotten Realms Campaign (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 2nd Edition : Forgotten Realms)

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The PG (Player's Guide) series is a well-crafted, "user-friendly" set of guidebooks that introduces new players to the worlds of TSR. The approach is refreshingly light and engaging (gamespeak and rhetoric are kept to an absolute minimum), and as primary overviews of classic campaign worlds, these colorful sourcebooks are ideal! This one details the Forgotten Realms - chapters include lore on The Seekers (a great adventuring fellowship), and their journeys throughout the North - 128 pages, a fantastic story!

for a player who has just begun playing in this realm then it may be of some use, but it gives to broad an overview to get any real information on it, for that get the cam[paign setting

This product is basically a storybook to familiarize someone who knows absolutely nothing about the Forgotten Realms with a little bit of information from the campaign setting. Such a person could learn just as well from reading any one of the Forgotten Realms novels instead (but that might take a little longer). Or, such a person could just hop in and start playing with the rest of the group and learn as they go (which is what the majority of people do). The Forgotten Realms isn't very far off from the stereotypical medieval fantasy setting. It's not exotic like the Dark Sun campaign setting, and a guide like this really isn't necessary for Forgotten Realms.

The story IS entertaining, but anybody who's played in the Forgotten Realms will have no use for this book.

So far, the best use that I've had for this book is to have a character find a bottle floating in the Moonsea, and when they open it, I hand them this book and tell them that inside the bottle is this journal. The story in the book is sort of a cliffhanger, so the adventuring group could potentially pick up where the story stops and go rescue the characters in this book. Of coarse, it's totally up to the DM to write the rest of the story, but at least it's got a good start. If you want to try this, I'd recommend having the Ruins of Zhentil Keep boxed set.