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Faiths of the Forgotten Realms
Publisher: Dungeon Masters Guild
by Charles A. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 10/01/2022 16:33:17

I can't rate this highly enough. I've used this book countless times. In addition to its exciting options for players, as a DM, I can take the abilities and spells from this book and turn them into new magic items or boons given by a particular god to someone very faithful to them. I've done this many times, and it never disappoints. Additionally, I have frequently used these new subclasses to create NPC's or villains that feel new and unique when the players encounter them.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Creator Reply:
Hi Charles, I apologize for the delay in responding to your wonderful review, but I wanted to express my heartfelt appreciation for your kind words and support. It's been a challenging few years since the book's release, and I haven't had the opportunity to stay in close contact with the other authors. Nonetheless, it brings me immense joy to hear that you've found our book to be so valuable and versatile in your gaming experiences. Your innovative approach to using the book's content, like creating magic items and boons from the abilities and spells, is truly inspiring! It's great to see that the book is not only helping you create memorable adventures but also sparking your creativity in ways I hadn't even imagined. Again, thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and experiences with our book. I hope it continues to serve as an invaluable resource for you and your players. Happy gaming! Best regards, Scott
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Faiths of the Forgotten Realms
Publisher: Dungeon Masters Guild
by Guy A. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 08/24/2022 19:09:50

Excellent source book. I would have organized the first two sections as one large section, but that is just a personal preference. Well written and plenty of obvious research from preivious edition sources. It would have been nice to see a little more "original additions though. Solid 4.75 out of 5 for me.



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[4 of 5 Stars!]
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Faiths of the Forgotten Realms
Publisher: Dungeon Masters Guild
by Kristopher C. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 07/24/2021 00:19:02

Trememdous sourcebook regarding religion in the Forgotten Realms. If you're a DM or religious PC, this book will provide depth to your campaign.



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[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Faiths of the Forgotten Realms
Publisher: Dungeon Masters Guild
by Kyle M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 12/27/2020 15:26:02

This is very useful to my game. I like how this gives the option of giving a unique fingerprint based on the gods worshipped. This book was a head of its time, as more subclasses are being released that parallel the ones found in this book.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Faiths of the Forgotten Realms
Publisher: Dungeon Masters Guild
by Ludovico A. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 12/23/2020 02:48:09

The subsubclasses and new spells are wildly unbalanced, tending towards being too weak; and the writing and editing are sloppy and definitely not worth the price tag. Buyer beware.



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[1 of 5 Stars!]
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Creator Reply:
Thank you for your purchase! I'm afraid I can't agree with you due to your points' broad ambiguity and evidence of the contrary. I hope you decide to give the book a chance for some inspiring roleplay.
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Faiths of the Forgotten Realms
Publisher: Dungeon Masters Guild
by Rewi L. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 06/23/2020 21:07:58

I bought this title looking for more depth to faiths in the Realms, and got it in spades.

Yet I still feel there was something lacking. Allow me to elaborate.

This is a great resource for adding depth to divine classes and to collect together and expand on the lore of the Forgotten Realms, but only expands the notion of faith beyond those characters and NPCs that dedicate themselves to those classes in a somewhat passing fashion.

If you're a cleric or paladin, this is the tome of lore and character creation options for you. Likewise, if you're a DM looking to build a campaign around divine themes it has a lot going for it.

But if your character is a non-divine class that follows a particular god there's flavour here, but not so much substance as it provides for clerics and paladins.

Don't get me wrong, I love what this supplement provides, but when I found it I was actually looking for what I later found in Oliver Clegg's Gods of Faerun: a ruleset that provides a reason (an incentive) for any character of any class to demonstrate piety to a particular god.



Rating:
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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Creator Reply:
Hi, Rewi. Thanks for your review. I'm glad you found great value in this book! I haven't checked out Oliver's title yet, but I like the concept of what you're describing, and it seems like it would be complementary to this book.
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Faiths of the Forgotten Realms
Publisher: Dungeon Masters Guild
by Stephen G. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/12/2020 14:40:47

Fantastic collection, with really great options to make your cleric and paladin characters much more flavorful and true to their divine parton. Great value!



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Faiths of the Forgotten Realms
Publisher: Dungeon Masters Guild
by Mario E. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 04/27/2020 12:42:49

I love the facts that the book respect all previous writings of the faith on Faerûn. That book is simply a fast way for me to make my players unique clerics or paladins or rangers Have a solid background in the Realms. Very very useful !!!



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Faiths of the Forgotten Realms
Publisher: Dungeon Masters Guild
by Daniel H. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 10/04/2019 08:30:22

Absolutely fantastic product! Filled with a lots of lore to flesh out your pantheon and a massive amount of great class archetypes for your players. The thing i love most about this book is that the domains and oaths feel like they belong with their respective god. My players love the fact that they get to play the domain of "their god" instead of just life domain of... Really can't recommend this enough for those that play in the forgotten realms setting. I eagerly await the release of their second book.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Creator Reply:
Thanks for the review, Daniel! I wish you many fun times ahead using the book as we intended. The second book is in final layout, and we hope it will be released within the next 30 days.
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Faiths of the Forgotten Realms
Publisher: Dungeon Masters Guild
by Ross W. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/25/2019 10:35:34

Find my full review here

This is a fantastic resource for DMs and players, bursting with new character options for clerics and paladins (and even a scattering of druid and ranger archetypes). Honestly, you'll get a lot of value from this book at the price.

The content is mostly well balanced (if anything, sometimes it's a little too conservative) and there's hardly anything in here that could be exploited to "break" your game. There's one particular spell which deals damage and can be cast as a ritual, which is a big mistake, but that's about it.

I would allow most of the content in the book in my game with very few reservations, and the rest could be easily adjusted with homebrew or simply monitored as we play to see if my reservations are undeserved.

I really wish this book assigned the spells to class lists, because it's such a waste for them to only be available to a cleric or paladin of a specific religion. In practice it means a lot of the great content is inaccessible to your players in any given campaign, which is a crying shame and a waste of the designers' considerable efforts in creating them. I ended up assigning the spells to class lists myself, and the table is available in the form of a googledoc for anyone else who'd like it. Find it here.

I've also compiled a list of editorial errors and personal feedback on various things in the book, which I hope the designers find useful pending any future errata. Find it here.



Rating:
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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Creator Reply:
Hi Ross, Thanks for the review! The spells are actually meant for any spellcasting class archetype of a particular deity that grants them; we didn't explicitly state that, but it was our intention. The book focuses on clerics and paladins, but the spells are available to all the deities' faithful who have the spellcasting class feature.
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Faiths of the Forgotten Realms
Publisher: Dungeon Masters Guild
by Jesse R. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 12/01/2018 03:41:50

I thoroughly enjoy the options this book has to offer. The only thing I would add would be options for Tiamat and Bahamut. I couldn't find anything in there for them, but I still think this book is the bomb!



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Faiths of the Forgotten Realms
Publisher: Dungeon Masters Guild
by Garin J. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/20/2018 08:33:31

This is a damn treasure hoard of Paladin, Cleric and even some Ranger subclasses. Each one is not only inspired by a Forgotten Realms god but really feels like it belongs to that deity.

A better value for your money that most of the content on this site. Just download it.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Creator Reply:
Garin, Thank you so much for your kind words and for leaving a review! It's reviews like this that make us creators feel great about putting all the effort and hard work into producing a supplement like this. We tried to to make this product a great value for both players and DMs who enjoy campaigns based in the Forgotten Realms; it seems we may have succeeded in accomplishing that goal! Wishing you many fun game sessions using the content in this book! Scott
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Faiths of the Forgotten Realms
Publisher: Dungeon Masters Guild
by James S. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 09/13/2018 07:59:23

As a big fan of the old Faiths and Avatars, Powers and Pantheons et al books, i have been waiting for something similar for 5th Edition. If your looking for (a lot) more options for your clerics, paladins, druids (and in some cases rangers) or your just a geek for FR lore (like me) this book is must have. Despite the rather gloomy cover the presentation throughout is nothing short of the highest quality, pretty much full colour throughout, nice thick paper with a faux parchment look and the binding on my copy is very sturdy. The writing (both fluff and crunch) is excellent, there are so many options, most which come across as flavourful rather than overly powerful (even the artifacts). My only personnel gripe is the lack of Garagos or Shaundakul (though i know the author states they are only using the gods from the Sword Coast Book). Still this is a well deserved 5 stars.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Faiths of the Forgotten Realms
Publisher: Dungeon Masters Guild
by Joshua T. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 08/31/2018 15:25:21

Great product! Highly reccomended if you want the the faiths of the your Forgetten realms campaign to have a individual feel.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Faiths of the Forgotten Realms
Publisher: Dungeon Masters Guild
by Matthew P. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 07/17/2018 21:15:54

Faiths and Avatars from Eric L Boyd to this day remains my favorite FR product because of two reasons.

The sheer amount of detail and secondly because intrinsically I love the concept of a Pantheon of Deities and their alignment to certain portfolios.

Faiths of the Forgotten Realms while not as exhaustive as that and related products, does a very good job of detailing the core Faerunian Pantheon which is itself one of the biggest numbers of any published setting. Of course this is a double edged sword. A large number means any product detailing them is also going to have a significant page counnt. Faiths of the Forgotten Realms however also needs to dedicate some of its hefty page count to 'crunch' or the mechanical aspect... a thing that I was not really truly interested in.

What this means is that in the initial section where the God is discussed we get mostly a paragraph and a half initially dedicated to talking about the gods. Each God's followers get a background table which is an incredibly useful source for background information. Information on holy days and centres of faith (ie temples) in the Realms is also provided. There is some information here which is useful but I would of like to have seen more. Straight up practical stuff like 'The Clerics and Paladins of the Faith wear colour x and colour Y, and the priests are given titles such as T.

All of this minute information goes towards making a fully rounded story and character. Still the information we get provided is still very useful.

In the second section comes the mechanics of the book (or essentially from here on), each faith listed in the previous sections gets something. Whether that be a new domain, A new Warlock path, a subclass for Paladins. On top of this new spells. It would take al ong time to go through and use them all to get a good idea of how well they worked or dont work, but some look very interesting. I think many campaigns would benefit from this section more than mine.

At this point I should also say these are were the 'current' holy Symbols are depicted. If you are unaware, more than a few gods DO change their holy symbol from time to time, reflecting often a change in the Gods outlook or a change in the 'mortal' faith. Its a good resource to have when you are trying to explain what your holy symbol actually looks like (although it would of been nice also to have it spelled out in words too.. trying to describe Asmodeus symbol might be a bit hard)

Chapter 3 or Holy Texts is probably my favorite chapter. It goes into some detail on the Holy Texts of most of the Gods found in this product. This is GREAT!. Obviously its not going to come up much in game but a Cleric that goes around proletysing their faith might get to scream out ' And now a reading from the Black Book of Beshaba!'. There is a lot of good information here and it is clear to read.

I should also point out that not every God seems to have a holy text listed.

Chapter 4 is a collection of Magical items , thematically tied to the Gods in this product going all the way up to Holy Artifacts that could be the focus of a campaign. Some look very Interesting

My Final Thoughts:

This book is nearly everything I want for a FR Product. It's an incredibly difficult book to write in my opinion because of how aligned to FR it is. FR is a dynamic setting (one of very few FR settings that are) and as such religous events happen and , Temples and cities are destroyed, new Gods appear then go and come back. 5e pressed a reset back to 3e in many ways, but time has still passed. Finding current information of where each gods temples are has to be an issue because its just not information that has been released by Wizards yet.

I would of prefferred the God Information from Chapter 1 and 2 to be put together. I do not see any reason to split the lore from the mechanics. You are simply making the user look up two different page numbers. It would have the secondary effect of making each God section appear larger.

One final point:

One of my greatest loves of Faiths and Avatars was actually SEEING what a Priest of a God looked like. TSR decided to get art done of the 'dress' of each priest and they were beautiful pictures. While very hard for a book like this to do, perhaps one day this might be possible.

All in all a Great buy.



Rating:
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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Creator Reply:
Hi, Mathew. Thanks for taking the time to review the product. I'm glad you liked most of what the title has to offer. We have been discussing the feedback we've received and are looking into making adjustments to the layout and organization for future title releases in this product line. I hope you continue to find the book useful at your tables.
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