Player's Guide to Faerûn

Player’s Guide to Faerûn is an accessory for the Forgotten Realms campaign setting using the 3.5^th-edition Dungeons & Dragons^® ruleset.

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The heroes of the Forgotten Realms are as diverse and varied as the regions from which they hail. This collection of Faerûnian lore and arcana allows you to create and equip an endless array of characters braced for the challenges they'll encounter. From races, feats, and spells to prestige classes, magic items, and more, Player's Guide to Faerûn provides a v.3.5 update to the Forgotten Realms setting, reintroduces some old favorites from 1st and 2nd Edition, and offers all-new character-building material.

Over 60 feats
More than 30 prestige classes
90 spells

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Contents[]

Introduction
Chapter 1: Races and Feats
Chapter 2: Prestige Classes
Chapter 3: Domains and Spells
Chapter 4: Magic Items
Chapter 5: Epic Levels in Faerûn
Chapter 6: Cosmology of Toril
Chapter 7: Campaign Journal
Appendix

Description[]

Player’s Guide to Faerûn updates many rules from the 3rd-edition Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting and provides additional and update spells, magic items, and prestige classes; expanded cosmology; psionics lore; adaptations for Book of Exalted Deeds and Book of Vile Darkness; and more.

Index[]

Spells: Acid storm • Ball lightning • Battletide • Black talon • Blinding spittle • Blindsight • Bombardment • Briartangle • Caligarde's claw • Claws of the beast • Cloud of bewilderment • Create magic tattoo • Dread blast • Elminster's effulgent epuration • Eye of power • Favor of Ilmater • Fiendform • Fireward • Fleshshiver • Forceward • Gedlee's electric loop • General of undeath • Glory of the martyr • Greater shield of Lathander • Greater sword and hammer • Handfire • Harmony • Holy star • Howling chain • Icelance • inferno • Lawful sword • Lightning ring • Lively step • Mace of Odo • Manyjaws • Mold touch • Moonweb • Mystic lash • Mystra's miasma • Nature's balance • Nchaser's glowing orb • Nybor's gentle reminder • Nybor's mild admonishment • Nybor's stern reproof • Obedient avalanche • Pact of martyrdom • Possess animal • Presper's moonbow • Prismatic eye • Rosemantle • Ruby ray of reversal • Shield of Lathander • Shroud of flame • Simbul's spell matrix • Simbul's spell sequencer • Simbul's spell trigger • Skull eyes • Skull of secrets • Skull watch • Spectral stag • Spell enhancer • Spell name • Spell phylactery • Spell shield • Spellmantle • Stone body • Stone walk • Strength of the beast • Summon undead I • Summon undead II • Summon undead III • Summon undead V • Sunrise • Surelife • Sword and hammer • Thorn spray • Transcribe symbol • Tree healing • Triple mask • Undead bane weapon • Undeath after death • Undeath's eternal foe • Understand device • Vipergout • Wall of moonlight • Wall of sand • Warning • Wieldskill

Gallery[]

Credits[]

Designers: Richard Baker, Travis Stout, James Wyatt
Developers: Mike Donais, Andrew J. Finch, David Noonan
Editor: Penny Williams
Managing Editor: Gwendolyn F.M. Kestrel
Design Managers: Christopher Perkins, Ed Stark
Development Manager: Andrew J. Finch
Director of RPG R&D: Bill Slavicsek
Production Manager: Josh Fischer
Art Director: Robert Roper
Cover Artist: Adam Rex
Interior Artists: Thomas Baxa, Beet, Wayne England, Carl Frank, Randy Gallegos, Rafa Garres, Jeremy Jarvis, Raven Mimura, Scott Okumura, Jim Pavelec, Steve Prescott, Rick Sardinha, Ben Thompson
Graphic Designers: Kate Irwin, Robert Roper
Cartographers: Dennis Kauth, Robert Lazzaretti
Graphic Production Specialist: Angelika Lokotz
Image Technician: Jason Wiley
Playstesters: Todd Meyer, Rasmus Pechuel, Jon Pickens, Monica Shellman, Michael S. Weber, Penny Williams

Appendix[]

Trivia[]

A copy of Player's Guide to Faerûn can be glimpsed in this image in the Eberron sourcebook Sharn: City of Towers, though with its spine on the right rather than the left.

External Links[]

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Player's Guide to Faerûn on the DMs Guild store (affiliate link)
Player's Guide to Faerûn on the DriveThruRPG store (affiliate link)
Player's Guide to Faerûn Art Gallery. Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on 2016-08-16. Retrieved on 2020-04-01.
Richard Baker and James Wyatt (2004-03-13). Monster Update (Zipped PDF). Web Enhancement for Player's Guide to Faerûn. Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on 2016-11-01. Retrieved on 2018-09-10.
Excerpts: Player's Guide to Faerûn (HTML). Excerpts Archive. Wizards of the Coast. (2004-03-05). Archived from the original on 2016-11-01. Retrieved on 2021-12-27.
Player's Guide to Faerûn (HTML). Product Spotlight. Wizards of the Coast. (2004-03-05). Archived from the original on 2004-06-04. Retrieved on 2021-12-27.
Player's Guide to Faerûn Errata (Zipped PDF). Wizards of the Coast. (2004-07-16). Archived from the original on 2017-10-28. Retrieved on 2018-09-05.

Connections[]

Forgotten Realms Sourcebooks

3^rd edition and v.3.5

Champions of Ruin • Champions of Valor • City of Splendors: Waterdeep • Dragons of Faerûn • Faiths and Pantheons • Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting • The Grand History of the Realms • Lords of Darkness • Lost Empires of Faerûn • Magic of Faerûn • Monsters of Faerûn • Mysteries of the Moonsea • Player's Guide to Faerûn • Power of Faerûn • Races of Faerûn • Serpent Kingdoms • Shining South • Silver Marches • Unapproachable East • Underdark
Adventures
Anauroch: The Empire of Shade • City of the Spider Queen • Cormyr: The Tearing of the Weave • Into the Dragon's Lair • Pool of Radiance: Attack on Myth Drannor • Shadowdale: The Scouring of the Land • Sons of Gruumsh • The Twilight Tomb