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Ex Libris: Monster Slayers

A few years ago, a quirky illustrated book entitled A Practical Guide to Monsters was published, authored by a now-missing wizard named Zendric. Within this tome the description of a number of shapeshifters, goblinoids, and aberrations could be found, explaining their weaknesses, strengths, and general lifestyle.

Now this Practical Guide is being used as the source [...]

Ex Libris: The Ghost King

The Ghost King, by R.A. Salvatore  is the epitome of what I have come to expect from a Drizzt story ramped up to awesome. This is the third and final book in the Transitions Trilogy that is intended to help us breach the gap between the 3rd edition of the Forgotten Realms and the 4th [...]

Ex: Libris: The Pirate King

The Pirate King, by R.A. Salvatore is the second book in the Transitions Trilogy and features the ever popular adventures of a dark elf named Drizzt. One of the stated purposes of this trilogy of books is to help it’s readers transition from the 3rd edition version of the Forgotten Realms to the 4th edition [...]

Roll the Dice: Player’s Handbook Races – Dragonborn

Of all the races presented in the original Player’s Handbook of the 4th edition of Dungeons & Dragons, two races stood out as being new – dragonborn and tieflings. Both of these races had appeared in previous editions (dragonborn cropping up in the 3e book Races of the Dragon), but their 4th edition counterparts were [...]

Roll of the Dice: Underdark (4e)

Underdark from Wizards of the Coast for 4e D&D is a book that should give a DM everything that they need to run a game in the deadly underground setting below many fantasy realms in the game. And in this book succeeds in doing just that, IF you are willing to accept their story for the Underdark, a story which is vastly different than any previous story of the [...]

Roll the Dice: The Quintessential Rogue

The Quintessential Rogue is the third book in the Quintessential Range of D&D 4th Edition supplements from Mongoose Publishing and Asterion Press. Each book in the Quintessential Range features supplemental rules and more powers, feats, paragon paths, and magic items for a particular class. In my next installment of reviews for The Quintessential Ranger, we’ll [...]

Ex Libris: Swords of Eveningstar (Book 1 of the Knights of Myth Drannor)

If you are a Forgotten Realms geek then it’s essential. If you want to have a better understanding of realm of Cormyr then this is a great way to immerse yourself. If you are looking for casual D&D fantasy then this may not be the perfect novel for [...]

Roll of the Dice: The Quintessential Wizard

The Quintessential Wizard is the first book in the Quintessential Range of D&D 4th Edition supplements from Mongoose Publishing and Asterion Press. Each book in the Quintessential Range features supplemental rules and more powers, feats, paragon paths, and magic items for a particular class. In this case, the material focuses on (you guessed it, gold [...]

Roll of the Dice: D&D – Dungeon Master’s Guide II Preview

As part of a coordinated release event,

FFoCaG received a preview image

of an entry in the upcoming DMG2…

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Hardcover: 224 pages

Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (September 15, 2009)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 078695244X

ISBN-13: 978-0786952441