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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide (Dungeons & Dragons)

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Get everything you need to adventure in the Forgotten Realms on the exciting Sword Coast, home to the cities of Baldur’s Gate, Waterdeep, and Neverwinter. Crafted by the scribes at Green Ronin in conjunction with the Dungeons & Dragons team at Wizards of the Coast, the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide provides D&D fans with a wealth of detail on the places, cultures, and deities of northwestern Faerûn. The Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide is also a great way to catch up on recent events in the Forgotten Realms, to get background on locations featured in the Rage of Demons storyline coming in September, and to learn the lore behind video games like Neverwinter and Sword Coast Legends. Here are just a few of the features you’ll find in the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide: · Immersive Adventuring: This campaign sourcebook provides players and Dungeon Masters material for creating vibrant fantasy stories along the Sword Coast. · New Character Options: The book offers new subclass options, such as the Purple Dragon Knight and the Swashbuckler, for many of the classes presented in the Player’s Handbook, as well as new subraces and backgrounds specific to the Forgotten Realms. · Adventure in the Forgotten Realms:Discover the current state of the Forgotten Realms and its deities after the Spellplague and the second Sundering. You’ll also get updated maps of this area of the Realms.· Compatible with Rage of Demons storyline: Make characters for use with the Out of the Abyss adventure and fight back the influence of the demon lords in the Underdark below the Sword Coast. · Insider Information: Learn the background behind locations, such as Luskan and Gracklstugh, featured in the upcoming digital RPG, Sword Coast Legends, from n-Space. With new character backgrounds and class options, players will love the storytelling possibilities of playing a noble of Waterdeep, an elf bladesinger, or one of the other new options, while Dungeon Masters will relish a book full of mysterious locations and story hooks to keep players adventuring on the Sword Coast for years to come. Look for Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide to be available on November 3. Read more


Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wizards of the Coast; Illustrated edition (November 3, 2015)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 159 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 09


Reading age ‏ : ‎ 14 years and up


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.4 x 0.5 x 10.9 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #8,817 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #17 in Puzzle & Game Reference (Books) #31 in Dungeons & Dragons Game #39 in Activity Books


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    • Great for DMs in the Realms and setting-devoted players
To start: this is not a full setting book like in editions past. Even with the most successful launch in DnD history, 5E's development team is down to around eight people, meaning they have to contract out - to Green Ronin Publishing in this case - and it shows: this is a strangely placed product, not a full setting book, not a low-priced addendum. The writing is great (and mostly in-character as a variety of people from the Realms), the art is okay. It's laid out well and the book quality overall is fine. Who is this for?: DMs. Players who love to roleplay in the Realms will want to pick this up as well, but the main thrust is for DMs. How are the new Subclasses?: Great and balanced (except for min/max fanatics who will inevitably complain). All the options are full of flavor and RP potential, and the permissive notes regarding the racially locked options - Battlerager and Bladesinger - give new DMs license to apply these subclasses however they want and not fall into the newbie trap of "only RAW." There are a few pages in the back about how to apply the new rules to different DnD settings (Greyhawk, Eberron, Dragonlance) and your own settings. There is no new content for Druids, Rangers, and Bards, although they, along with the rest of the classes, are given a write-up regarding how they work in the Realms. Races?: Yep! A few new races and new variants for existing ones. I was hoping for a more in-depth treatment of Aasimar, but alas. The only note here is the Winged Tiefling variant is probably too good. Each race is given a thorough review and discussion of its place in the Realms. New Spells?: Four new melee cantrips for Wizards, Warlocks, and Sorcerers. Eldritch Knights and Bladelocks rejoice! Setting Information?: Plenty of it (and most of the book). Deities and nations are given a good overview. Events have moved on since 4E's often-odd developments, which will probably enrage Realms purists regardless of what it says. For someone starting out in 5E or coming into the 5E Realms with an open mind, it's perfectly fine. As a note, all maps in the book are "setting-realistic" maps, meaning they are drawn as though someone in the Realms created them. Overall, it's a solid Realms book until WoTC can release a full campaign setting book in the future. If you're a player that loves to RP or a DM to a Realms game (or loves to use official rules in homebrew), this is a great buy. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 5, 2015 by Andrew
    • You will like this book if you understand what it is and what it isn't before buying
I'm going to attempt to explain why this book has gotten great reviews from some and terrible reviews from others. The answer is simple: some people are buying this book thinking it's something that it's not. I'll sum it up, then go into more detail. DON'T buy this book if: 1) Your campaign is not set in the realms or if your version of the realms largely ignores the canon in exchange for creative freedom. The Players' Handbook has enough info for both of these types of DMs, both on the Realms and on generic or non-realms settings. 2) You're doing it just for maps. The maps are each available to purchase for a couple of bucks from the artists' storefronts, in both printed and digital form. 3) You're looking for an exhaustive campaign setting. This is not a campaign setting. This book is for both DMs and Players, and includes 5e lore on major cities and settlements, deities, races, classes, etc, for a huge area. If it were that detailed, this book would need to be several volumes at minimum. 4) You're a player looking for custom classes. The class options are merely new paths for existing classes, albeit some of them might make the class feel wholly different like the swashbuckler rogue or bladesinger wizard. Still, they are class options. DO buy this book if: 1) You're running a 5e Forgotten Realms campaign, and want to stay true to the canon for the most part. This book is pretty good at showing where the realms stand in 5e without getting so detailed it puts a ton of constraints on your campaign. Still, as I mentioned before, if you like to go totally off canon, a huge portion of this book will be useless to you. 2) Players who are in a 5e Forgotten Realms campaign, and want to learn the lore without reading hundreds of novels or wiki articles. 3) Players who are in a 5e Forgotten Realms campaign that want to fit their character into the lore so it doesn't feel generic and out of place. Now if you find yourself among the listed groups who might enjoy this book and aren't familiar with the Realms, there are several typos on the Neverwinter map. You can easily find a 4e map of Neverwinter on the internet if you want to see what the places are really called versus what appears to have been some bad autocorrect changes (Moonstone Mark, Clock Tower, Bluelake District [errors] vs Moonstone Mask, Cloak Tower, Blacklake District [correct]). If you're still interested in the book, the book supplies a great deal of knowledge about what is currently happening in the Realms since the Second Sundering, a time for which there is little information on wikis and the internet (that will change with time, but currently, this book is great if you want to know who is the Waterbaron of Yartar, or whether or not a particular deity is alive again). Wizards of the Coast is rolling back a lot of the unpopular lore changes from 4e, so the 5e Realms feel a lot like 3/3.5e Realms, albeit over a hundred years later. The sections on race supply mostly Realms-flavor for your character, which some people feel is useless. I, personally, enjoy this sort of thing, as not everything needs to be a game mechanic or enhancement. There are more in depth looks at sun and moon elves for instance, and a list of rarer elf types such as the winged Avariel. There are also two new races for this supplement, the duergar and the svirfneblin (which overrides the one in the Elemental Evil pdf). The classes don't all get new paths, but all have a lore treatment, and the ones that do have been criticized for not being completely new classes. I feel like the playtesting required for new classes would have delayed this book until next year sometime, and the lore is something a lot of DMs wanted now. The bladesinger wizard is the standout here, allowing you to make a melee wizard and there are several new cantrips to go along with it (or the new warlock option). The book also contains a lot of information on the Realms deities, having lists of all the deities including the non-human deities like Moradin, Brandobaris, and Correlon Larethian. Each deity has a short write-up and a picture of its symbol. These are not exhaustive histories of each deity, but rather the basics and how that deity fits in post-Sundering. The wiki is a good place to look up older info, or if you have older campaign setting books. There are also many pages detailing various towns and cities in the extended Sword Coast area (because the Sword Coast specifically refers to only a portion of what this book covers) as well as the major city-states along the Sword Coast (Luskan, Neverwinter, Waterdeep, and Baldur's Gate). The book also includes brief overviews of areas well beyond the borders of the Sword Coast, as most people of the realms would have heard at least basic info on these more distant lands. Overall, as a reader of the FR novels who DMs a group set in 5e Forgotten Realms, this book was exactly what I wanted. I've read a lot of the negative reviews and what they all have in common is the expectation for this book to be something that it's not and wasn't advertised as, and these people are mostly deducting points for their own lack of due diligence before buying. Admittedly, I too bought the book blindly, but since I hadn't played in 20 years since 2e and just having recently started a 5e campaign, I wasn't spoiled by the dozens of FR sourcebooks for 3e and 4e and expecting this one book to encompass all of that. If you have all of those books already, you can use this book to show you what has changed and how that information is relevant to the 5e setting. I give this 4 stars, because the book was rushed and there are a few minor errors (the only ones I found that might actually affect play is the name errors on the Neverwinter Map). ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 24, 2015 by E. Brum
    • Great knowledge
Lots of knowledge and information about the regions, cities, and history of that part of the world.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 27, 2022 by Nordic301
    • Very happy!
This was exactly what I needed to expand my knowledge of the sword coast and the details in this book are great! Very happy with this purchase!!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 18, 2022 by James Young
    • I like it but it just isn't enough
It has some fun details and world building with some of my favorite subclasses, great if you want to play a campaign in the sword coast or forgotten realms, but other than that, it's just a little lack luster. The subclasses aren't very strong even compared to the phb and it just feels slightly incomplete, still worth buying though ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 12, 2022 by a nerd with bad spending habits

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