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<blockquote data-quote="gban007" data-source="post: 9033623" data-attributes="member: 56488"><p>Similar to aco175 above, though I think 3rd edition also has a fair amount, and has some of my favourite FR supplements, but any of those 3 I think has a good amount of information for any of the locales you may want to visit, with a good sense of what populates the world, what states / countries / entities there are, with a rich history behind it, and with quite a bit of variety across the different places, if some of it perhaps is coloured a bit poorly in some areas when drawing badly on real life history (e.g. Maztica if look too far into it, some of the Far East stuff), but I think if sticking from Moonshae in the west to Thay in the east, Icewind Dale in the north to Chult / Halruua in south (and everything in between) then it has some pretty rich material for all sorts of different lands. </p><p>I don't recommend 4th edition, and may be some bias, but felt like a lot less content available, and it looked to wipe a lot of the history the prior 3 editions built up, but depending on what you are after it arguably allows for more of a clean slate with a bit of minimal fleshing out to give you prompts, so 4th is that 'sketches everything in a fairly detail-light way', whereas the 3 prior give a lot more detail, which I personally like but YMMV.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gban007, post: 9033623, member: 56488"] Similar to aco175 above, though I think 3rd edition also has a fair amount, and has some of my favourite FR supplements, but any of those 3 I think has a good amount of information for any of the locales you may want to visit, with a good sense of what populates the world, what states / countries / entities there are, with a rich history behind it, and with quite a bit of variety across the different places, if some of it perhaps is coloured a bit poorly in some areas when drawing badly on real life history (e.g. Maztica if look too far into it, some of the Far East stuff), but I think if sticking from Moonshae in the west to Thay in the east, Icewind Dale in the north to Chult / Halruua in south (and everything in between) then it has some pretty rich material for all sorts of different lands. I don't recommend 4th edition, and may be some bias, but felt like a lot less content available, and it looked to wipe a lot of the history the prior 3 editions built up, but depending on what you are after it arguably allows for more of a clean slate with a bit of minimal fleshing out to give you prompts, so 4th is that 'sketches everything in a fairly detail-light way', whereas the 3 prior give a lot more detail, which I personally like but YMMV. [/QUOTE]
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