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The North. Guide to the Savage Frontier
The Savage Frontier, the Barbaric North, the Cold Wastes, the Uneducated Backyard. These, among many others, are nicknames for the North. This is a land of rabid monsters and ruthless barbarians, where nature is the strongest force for leagues in any direction. The North campaign expansion for the FORGOTTEN REALMS setting is the authority on the lands from Daggerford in the south to Ten Towns in the north, from Anauroch in the east to the Ice Peak in the west.
This new campaign expansion contains everything a player or Dungeon Master needs to adventure in this savage and perilous territory, including:
The Wilderness – A 96-page timeline and geographical overview of the north, featuring a description of the land's natives and monsters and including out-of-print information found in TSR's accessory FR5 The Savage Frontier.
Cities and Civilization – 64 pages of facts on all the cities, towns, and hamlets in the North.
Daggerford – a 32-page book describing a complete city designed to be a hometown for your campaign's bravest heroes, with detailed building descriptions based on information from the old TSR adventure N5 Under Illefarn.
Two Poster Maps – Full-color sheets showing the entire environs of the North. On the reverse side is a map of the town of Daggerford, plus an extensive set of random encounter tables.
This new campaign expansion contains everything a player or Dungeon Master needs to adventure in this savage and perilous territory, including:
The Wilderness – A 96-page timeline and geographical overview of the north, featuring a description of the land's natives and monsters and including out-of-print information found in TSR's accessory FR5 The Savage Frontier.
Cities and Civilization – 64 pages of facts on all the cities, towns, and hamlets in the North.
Daggerford – a 32-page book describing a complete city designed to be a hometown for your campaign's bravest heroes, with detailed building descriptions based on information from the old TSR adventure N5 Under Illefarn.
Two Poster Maps – Full-color sheets showing the entire environs of the North. On the reverse side is a map of the town of Daggerford, plus an extensive set of random encounter tables.
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Published January 1, 1996
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April 29, 2015
Another overtly detailed guide to a fantasy region
26 August 2013
While this is another obsolete Dungeons and Dragons product, once you strip away all of the 2nd edition rules, or spend some time updating it to the third edition, this product can still be quite useful. I guess its usefulness comes out of the descriptions of the regions in the Forgotten Realms that are pretty much North of Waterdeep. Once again, unless you are really interested in reading about fantasy lands where somebody has painstakingly sat down to write a book that gives a detailed account of a region within a fantasy world, and then walk away from it with no further understanding of the real world in which you live, and you are happy with that, then maybe this book has some value.
I would use it mind you, especially since I did run some adventures set in The North. A part of me liked that section of the Realms, and in a way it still holds some fond memories. One adventure that I ran involved an army appearing north of the Spine of the World and then slowly moving south towards Waterdeep. This, mind you, was based on, unintentionally mind you but it does show how we can be influenced by novels that we have read, the Magician series. Unfortunately I never got to finish that adventure because, well, I broke up with my then 'girlfreind' (read she got bored with me after a couple of weeks, as she was prone to do, and moved on to another guy that was living in the same block of flats).
Still, I think the cover is pretty cool.
26 August 2013
While this is another obsolete Dungeons and Dragons product, once you strip away all of the 2nd edition rules, or spend some time updating it to the third edition, this product can still be quite useful. I guess its usefulness comes out of the descriptions of the regions in the Forgotten Realms that are pretty much North of Waterdeep. Once again, unless you are really interested in reading about fantasy lands where somebody has painstakingly sat down to write a book that gives a detailed account of a region within a fantasy world, and then walk away from it with no further understanding of the real world in which you live, and you are happy with that, then maybe this book has some value.
I would use it mind you, especially since I did run some adventures set in The North. A part of me liked that section of the Realms, and in a way it still holds some fond memories. One adventure that I ran involved an army appearing north of the Spine of the World and then slowly moving south towards Waterdeep. This, mind you, was based on, unintentionally mind you but it does show how we can be influenced by novels that we have read, the Magician series. Unfortunately I never got to finish that adventure because, well, I broke up with my then 'girlfreind' (read she got bored with me after a couple of weeks, as she was prone to do, and moved on to another guy that was living in the same block of flats).
Still, I think the cover is pretty cool.
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