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Elrond Half Elven
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 01 Feb 2004 : 20:01:03
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How many of you remember those tomes that you could pick up in the Baldur's Gate game. Those ones that give you alot of background information? Well here is a site that you can download them in a HTML format:
http://www.sorcerers.net/Fan_Worlds/FR/index.htm
I've used these in my games before, they are useful when you want to create the illusion that there is a world around the players. They are also useful to convey information to your players. In those library scenes rather than you reading out the infromation to your players, just have the appropriate one printed of on A4 paper, and Half it like a small leaflet and give it to them! If you have time you can Create a front cover for it! Great stuff here! Plus this tips free.
Thanks to Maecenus of Westgate for reminding me that this website existed!
Oh while I remember this information is the same, or at least similar to what you could find in the FRCS Grand tour of the Realms book.
Hanx
Elrond
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while i pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-
While i nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
-The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe |
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Adrian Moonbow
Seeker
Denmark
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Posted - 05 Feb 2004 : 10:16:42
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Thank you so much for that link Elrond.
I remember loving the details about those books when I played the games. Glad to see that they are available for 'easy reading'!  |
"I would have wanted not to die.
I would have wanted never to grow up!"
-Quidam
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Darkechilde
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 27 Apr 2004 : 07:32:30
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Elrond, Many Thanks!
I was asking around for these a few weeks ago, but no one could direct me to a place to get the text - and I wasn't looking forward to transcribing them from the game...
I'm planning to use many of them as handouts for my campaign.
Again, a multitude of thanks!
Bill |
Darkechilde
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
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Reefy
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
892 Posts |
Posted - 17 May 2004 : 20:24:53
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| Many thanks, that was very useful. I used to love reading the tomes on the game. I tried to collect as many as I could and deposited them all on a bookshelf in a house so I could go back and read them or find a specific one for a quest. |
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Sarelle
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
508 Posts |
Posted - 17 May 2004 : 20:36:37
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quote:
Originally posted by Reefy
Many thanks, that was very useful. I used to love reading the tomes on the game. I tried to collect as many as I could and deposited them all on a bookshelf in a house so I could go back and read them or find a specific one for a quest.
Heheh. I did the same thing. And in Icewind Dale II, when there wasn't a house that I could leave them in, I have ended up carrying them around in the inventory of one of my players.  Hey - they are much more fun than a bunch of +3 stuff!  |
Chair of the The Rightful Return of Monster Deities to FR Society (RRMDFRS)
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NightElf
Seeker
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 18 May 2004 : 13:36:52
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*hangs head in shame*
I did exactly the same thing, but I found that the many Bags of Holding available in the games to have the edge over any book case. I based a lot of my adventures on the tomes and books found in the Baldur's Gate & Icewind Dale games. I remember copying out one or two of them as well to use as hand outs for the players. Wandering throug the original BG with four of my characters overloaded with books and two fighting... trivial |
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Purple Dragon Knight
Master of Realmslore
Canada
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Posted - 18 May 2004 : 19:53:58
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| Thanks Elrond! |
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