Forgotten Realms General

Pick your favorite character, now pick the character you hate the most. Got them both? Good. Due to random god/dess fuckery the two are forced into a quest where they have to work together and protect each other or wind up dead.

Tell me how this ends.

Bruenor Battlehammer and Matron Malice.

It couldn't have ended worse.

Tell me Bruenor at least survives.

Might run this soon for 3.5, any tips? Good first adventures? How to use a campaign setting when I'm used to homebrewing my own settings as the default way of DMing / playing since I was 13?

Wish I had some advice user, but I don't. Stick around though, someone else is bound to have some!

Does anybody have some forgotten realms books they recommend? And a place where I can read/download them online for free?

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Can anyone tell me how the afterlife works in Forgotten Realms? I read that goblins are supposed to go to Maglubiyet when they die (even if they rarely want to). Could a goblin escape this fate by worshiping another god with another afterlife?

Vingus the Vile and Lord Fronar Robairn would make quite the pair.

Well, things where shaken up in canon a bit recently by Aos, so I am not really sure. Before I would have said no. Drizzt had been worshiping Mielikki for several decades now, but before his soul pretty much still belonged to Lolth.

However, since gods are now dependent upon their worshipers in order to continue existing, then I don't see why they would be stupid enough to turn down any new followers. From their perspective, it shouldn't matter what species they are. Souls are souls. You gotta do what you gotta do in order to continue existing.

I think Lolth is probably still going to hold onto Drizzt though, out of sheer fucking spite.