Module Database, FA series

FA series:

Series overview:

FA1: Halls of the High King

Setting: AD&D 2nd Edition, Forgotten Realms

Characters: 6-9 of levels 5-8

Written by: Ed Greenwood

Year: 1990

New spells: Mist Magic (W2), Call Undead (W3), Flamsterd's Flamestrike (W4), Starharp (W6), The Doom of Bane (P4), Mystic Lash (P5), Moonveil (P7), Stone Walk (P7), Death Symbol (P7)

New magical items: Black Hand, Blast Scepter, Handharp, Holy Hand of Bane, Mace of Darkness, The Scimitar of Souls (Artifact), Seat of Bane, Vestments of Power (Greater/Lesser)

New creatures: Bonebat, Helmed Horror, Nishruu, Nyth, Peltast, Shee, Weredragon

What you get: ???

Summary: This is an adventure set mainly in the Moonshae isles. It features a large color map of the ship, the dungeons, etc. It also features appendixes on such subjects as campaign adventuring, harping by firelight, the risen cult of Bane, and other short notes on various aspects of the Moonshae isles. In the adventure, the PCs are charged with the safety of a shipment of swords destined for the High King of the Moonshaes. They'll meet pirates, fairy creatures, cultists, as well as other pleasures and/or dangers.

FA2: Nightmare Keep

Setting: AD&D 2nd Edition, Forgotten Realms

Characters: ? of levels 18-20

Personal views

This was written during the grime period of module production. It suffers from the tradition faults of the period, mostly that it under estimates players abilities so the monsters are set at a woefully low level and secondly that it uses hokey rooms and encounters instead of trying to pull off a great idea. The highlight here has to be the undead squirrels and the lame attempts to justify illogical rooms designed to frustrate any reasonable party.

FRC series:

Series overview:

FRC1: Ruins of Adventure

Setting: AD&D 1st Edition, Forgotten Realms

Characters: ? of levels 1-6

Itís a tie in of the computer game that then spawned a book. To be fair is not as bad as I thought but its hardly a great adventure book.

FRC2: Curse of the Azure Bonds

Setting: AD&D 1st Edition, Forgotten Realms

Characters: ? of levels 6-9

Worse than FRC1 but not as bad as some of the junk that was passed for release in the grim days.

FRE series:

Series overview: These three modules take the world through the Time of Troubles, and tie in very closely with the Avatar trilogy of novels. These modules are also designed to take the Realms through the change to 2nd Edition.

Personal notes

This has to be the lowest part of the book module tie in era. Rigid scenarios that left no room for DM's, strict story plotting that made them a joke if someone had read the novels. bad bad bad, terrible, avoid.

FRE1: Shadowdale

Setting: AD&D 2nd Edition, Forgotten Realms

Characters: 4-6 of levels 5-8

Written by: Ed Greenwood

Year: 1989

New spells: None

New magical items: Whip of Frost, Fire and Fear, Blink Ring, Smokespear

New creatures: Baneguard, Crawling Chaos, Curst, Hakeashar, Netherbird

What you get: 48 page booklet and cover with fold-out map, full-color map

Summary: This module follows the first book of the Avatar Trilogy with the same name, whereby the Gods walk the Realms and magic is unstable.

Notes: This module is compatible with both 1st and 2nd Edition AD&D.

FRE2: Tantras

Setting: AD&D 2nd Edition, Forgotten Realms

Characters: 4-6 of levels 5-9

Written by: Ed Greenwood

Year: 1989

New spells: Hand of Torm, Elminster's Effulgent Epuration (W9)

New magical items: Mace of Spellwarding, Tooth of Torm, Wand of Viscid Globs

New creatures: Quelzarn

What you get: 48 page booklet and cover with fold-out map

Summary: This module follows the second book of the Avatar Trilogy with the same name, whereby Elminster has been murdered and the PCs are blamed!

Notes: This module is compatible with both 1st and 2nd Edition AD&D.

FRE3: Waterdeep

Setting: AD&D 2nd Edition, Forgotten Realms

Characters: 4-6 of levels 6-9

Written by: Ed Greenwood

Year: 1989

New spells: None

New magical items: Tablets of Fate, Cyric's Sword

New creatures: Denizen, Night Rider

What you get: 48 page booklet and cover with fold-out map

Summary: This module follows the third and last book of the Avatar trilogy with the same name, whereby the God of Strife is dead and the PCs have one tablet of fate, but must find the other.

Notes: This module is compatible with both 1st and 2nd Edition AD&D.

FRM series:

Series overview:

FRM1: Jungles of Chult

Setting: AD&D 2nd Edition, Forgotten Realms

Characters: 6-8 of levels 5-8

Written by: James Lowdner and Jean Rabe

Year: 1993

New spells: None

New magical items: None

New creatures: Pteraman

What you get: 64 page booklet

Summary: ???