Rating: [ 6.23 / 10.00 ]

Game Info

Title  Faiths & Avatars
Authors  Eric L. Boyd, Julia Martin
Book Type  Stats: Deities
Rank: [ 3 / 69 ]
Genre  Fantasy
Setting  Forgotten Realms
Series 
Edition Info  TSR (1996)
Stock: 9516
ISBN: 0-7869-0384-8
System  AD&D 2
Parent: [ D&D / OSR ]

Game Summary

Includes the most prominent religions and deities of the Realms. Each divine power is covered in depth by an entry that includes information about the deity's appearance, personality, worshipers, portfolio, aliases, domain name, superior, allies, foes, symbol, worshipers' alignments, avatar, manifestations, church, and specialty priests. The information on each religion includes its core dogma, day-to-day activites of priests, holy days and important ceremonies, major centers of worship, affiliated orders, and the priestly vestaments and adventuring garb of members of the clergy. Finally, each entry contains spells specific to each of the relgions - some new, some long unavailable or hard to find, and some updated to conform with the current AD&D game rules.

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8 / 10FlexiI have never really understood the whole appeal of the FR but this is a very good sourcebook for that setting. Bland illios and the pictures of the priests in their rather silly costumes are quite underwhelming. The book is packed with impressive detail on each deity's church, dogma, holy days, speciality priests, specific spells for each deity and much more.
10 / 10Scrivener of DoomThe single greatest RPG product of all time, IMO. It brought to life the history and priesthoods of the Forgotten Realms and finally removed the sclerotic sameness of generic clerics from the game (OK, balance was an issue but the flavour was right). This book brought me back to D&D and also launched so many campaigns it's not funny. The only product I would give a 10/10 to.

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