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The heroes of the Forgotten Realms are as diverse and varied as the regions from which they hail. This collection of Faerûnian lore and arcana allows you to create and equip an endless array of characters braced for the challenges they’ll encounter. From races, feats, and spells to prestige classes, magic items, and more, Player’s Guide to Faerûn provides a v.3.5 update to the Forgotten Realms setting, reintroduces some old favorites from 1st and 2nd Edition, and offers all-new character-building material.

Includes

* Over 60 feats
* Over 30 prestige classes
* Over 90 spells

To use this supplement, you also need the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, the Player’s Handbook, the Dungeon Master’s Guide, and the Monster Manual.

About the Author

Richard Baker works as an Origins award-winning game designer and Creative Director for the Forgotten Realms game line. His most recent credit is authoring the New York Times best-seller Condemnation: R.A. Salvatore's War of the Spider Queen, Book 3.

James Wyatt is currently an RPG game designer for Wizards of the Coast, Inc. His most recent credits include authoring Oriental Adventures and City of the Spider Queen and contributing to Deities and Demigods, the Epic Level Handbook, Fiend Folio, and Draconomicon.

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Hundreds of different cultures sprawl across Faerun, each marked by its own language, history, mores, technology, and magic. Read the first page

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not worth your time nor money, Jun 18 2004

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rarbelaez "rarbelaez" (Somewhere) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Player's Guide to Faerun: Forgotten Realms Supplement (Hardcover)

This book is really, really, really bad. I don't think i'll be buying any more Forgotten Realms books after Underdark, and this one. It's NOT a player's guide, so don't be fooled. It's a FR campaing setting adaption to D&D 3.5, they use the book to change some stuff (some spells, the regional feat system, some regional feats, some prestige classes, some spells and some other stuff), and they they update historical information of Faer�n in a very small, very general way.

I really regret having spend my money on this book. And i really regret having placed my hopes on WotC to produce good quality products. I'm tired of extremely poor quality products, badly written, filled with useless information, mistakes, bad prestige classes used to fill space, rule contradictions, poor test reading, poor play testing...

Please! Some of use, in spite of our love towards D&D, are growing tired with your products!

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars a sore disappointment, with little useful content., July 1 2004

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B. Allen-Trick "Meatrace" (Madison, Wisconsin, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Player's Guide to Faerun: Forgotten Realms Supplement (Hardcover)

And I was so excited about this too. The Forgotten Realms books are generally pretty good, the FR campaign setting, monsters of faerun, magic of faerun, races of faerun, all solid books. And i had low expectations for this, all I wanted was a 3.5 update, with all the player race information as well as regional and racial feats and spells rolled up into one handy dandy place.
I got none of this. They refused to reprint the write-ups for the PC races (WHY?!) so you still need the campaign setting book. They refused to reprint any spells from magic of faerun or the campaign setting. The prestige classes they did re-do they either changed virtually nothing, completely botched, or attached an arbitrary region-specific name to (shadow thief of amn? what the hell? what's wrong with guild thief?
the regional feats are now only available at 1st level, and exactly who is eligible for what has been obscured beyond all recognition.
to top it off, the ONLY reason i was super-psyched about this was the purported inclusion of the fire-knives assassin which was removed for space. SPACE? this book has little to nothing of worth in it. there are two things that are sort of interesting in this book: a section noting various psionic organizations. for a psy-freak like me its enough information to stoke my curiosity, but its still very little. and the other is the Yathrinshee prestige class. which by the way is very cool, and ridiculously overpowered.
please people, dont waste your money.

if you REALLY want one i'll sell you mine cheap.

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3.0 out of 5 stars It's nice having all this stuff in one small book but..., May 18 2004

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David Petersen (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Player's Guide to Faerun: Forgotten Realms Supplement (Hardcover)

I was really looking forward to this book for a long time. When I first got it in the mail, it was a bit of a disappointment. I guess this was because I was comparing this to other FR releases like The Silver Marches, The Unapproachable East, Underdark, Lords of Darkness, etc., books whose quality were top notch (for WotC books) and had a good amount of fluff (for my taste). I started liking the PGtF when I started planning for a new campaign because it lessened the time for character creation significantly because I didn't have to look through multiple books for feats and stuff. The 3.5 revisions weren't too bad overall. My only real gripe now is the fact that the book had tons of typos. I had not seen any in the earlier FR campaign supplements.

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1.0 out of 5 stars What a load of junk....
Friends, heed my warning. STAY AWAY FROM THIS LOAD OF WORTHLESS JUNK! This book was in no way shape or form worth the money. Read more

Published on April 13 2004

3.0 out of 5 stars For the Player who wants everything
As a big fan of all things Faerun, I am disappointed to have to admit this book isn't a MUST-own. The fundamental difference between this and the free, 3. Read more

Published on April 9 2004 by Guy L. Gonzalez