Forgotten Realms and 4e DM's Screen
I just picked up the 4e FR campaign guide and DM's screen on my lunch break, and from the short perusal I managed before coming back to the office, both products look fantastic. The screen is made of a durable, glossy hardback material and full of all the handy charts you'd expect, plus the artwork is fantastic, featuring a menagerie of monsters sure to instill fear in any goup of PC's.
The campaign guide is wonderfully organized, with beautiful artwork and approximately 75-80% fluff content - in a good way. While the FR Player's Guide, coming out next month, is sure to have all the crunchy bits I long for, the campaign guide full of everything a DM needs to run the Realms: lore, artifacts, monsters, and more. The appearance of statblocks for famous NPC's such as Jarlaxle, Fzoul Chembryl, and Szass Tam was a fanboy win, but I was dissapointed to see fewer NPC stats than in previous FR products. Perhaps we'll find those in the Player's Guide.
In short, I give these products two thumbs up. So go, give Wizards of the Coast your money! Game designers gotta eat too!
Seriously, good stuff. Buy these books.
The campaign guide is wonderfully organized, with beautiful artwork and approximately 75-80% fluff content - in a good way. While the FR Player's Guide, coming out next month, is sure to have all the crunchy bits I long for, the campaign guide full of everything a DM needs to run the Realms: lore, artifacts, monsters, and more. The appearance of statblocks for famous NPC's such as Jarlaxle, Fzoul Chembryl, and Szass Tam was a fanboy win, but I was dissapointed to see fewer NPC stats than in previous FR products. Perhaps we'll find those in the Player's Guide.
In short, I give these products two thumbs up. So go, give Wizards of the Coast your money! Game designers gotta eat too!
Seriously, good stuff. Buy these books.