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Subject: Re: TSR Initiative: TSR 11626 Forgotten REalms Volos Guide to Baldur's Gate II - "Forgotten Realms - Volo's Guide to Baldur's Gate II (2E).pdf" (00/77) 22.5 MBytes yEnc
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On Thu, 07 Jul 2016 09:11:01 -0400, Spanky The Man
<SpankyTheMan@gmail.com> wrote:
>Don't let the name fool you, "TSR 11626 Forgotten Realms: Volo's Guide
>to Baldur's Gate II" has only a passing connection to the eponymous
>video game mentioned on the cover (or, for that matter, with the city
>Baldur's Gate). Rather, it is a sourcebook (done in the "Volo's Guide"
>style travelogue) of the regions in which the computer game take
>place. It's an obvious cash-in on the popularity of the video game,
>but still a worthwhile resource. Nonetheless, if you are looking for
>something that retells the story of the Bhaalspawn (or gives you hints
>on how to get past some of the trickier bits of the game) this isn't
>the book for you. And no, there was never a "Volo's Guide to Baldur's
>Gate I" either.
>
>Having said that, it's actually one of the more enjoyable Volo's
>Guide, being both fairly wide-spread in area (covering much of the
>nation of Amn) whilst still providing a lot of spot-detail. Even if
>you don't want to use the Forgotten Realms setting, many of its
>characters and locations are easily transposed to other gameworlds. My
>only major complaint - and this held true for all the Volos Guides -
>was the use of icons to represent things like priceness of products
>available. Oh, and the lack of a poster-sized regional map; you'll
>definitely need the campaign maps from the Forgotten Realms boxed set
>to understand how all the regions fit together.
>
>Complete scan, OCRd, bookmarked, numerated, metadata'd and all sorts
>of other things.
Published in 2000, a late entry for 2nd edition, and one of the last
such by WotC. I wonder when Ed Greenwood wrote it. It does have a TSR
part number, after all.
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