Did the original official guide contain much lore?

[captnamazing]

I forget how to access it, but there's literally dozens of lore stories accessible in game. Pras EQ

[uygi]

Originally Posted by captnamazing [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I forget how to access it, but there's literally dozens of lore stories accessible in game. Pras EQ

Thinly veiled RMT scheme.

I got the Prima guide, it sucked. It had huge lists of item stats, but the items were stuff like cloth armor, fine steel plate (the original storebought stuff), fine steel weapons etc. It DID have good spell lists, and the skill lisys were mostly correct but you dont need those nearly so much. I played in beta and remember lots of wacky things, but none of it made the majority of the Prima guide make sense.

The real use was you didn't have to print out the spell lists and even if you did, your mom wouldn't throw away a book whereas she'd assume anything printed out that was a school assignment was trash.

[Whirled]

http://wiki.project1999.com/Lore_of_Norrath

there was a Journal and some other character quest list, i think?

[Safon]

Originally Posted by Whirled [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

http://wiki.project1999.com/Lore_of_Norrath

there was a Journal and some other character quest list, i think?

I absolutely love your avatar pic lol, I hope you made it yourself

[Whirled]

Originally Posted by Safon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I absolutely love your avatar pic lol, I hope you made it yourself

Hey thanks, but negative, I clicked and it was there. I found it on a google search I think; iirc /shrug
Computer stuff I try to keep basic.

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[GnashingOfTeeth]

Prima was written by folks that never played the game, and was horrid.

[LizardNecro]

Wow, blast from the past. I wrote several of the chapters of that book. Absor was also an author, and he eventually became community manager, replacing the much reviled Abashi.

I made up all the lore I wrote, straight from the top of my head. I wrote it and expected it would get corrected by the EQ lore team with feedback, but nope! It went straight through.

Fun times, thanks for linking the PDF.

[polishanarchy]

Ah man, I still have my Kunark prima guidebook from when I was like 8. It's super worn out and both covers have fallen off. I love the little stories in it, though they hardly count as lore, and some are pretty poorly written. But hey, nostalgia is nostalgia.

Anyway, I read it for the stories and the class/race/deity descriptions, and the old maps. There isn't really a purpose to a lot of the lists in the book but they can be fun to glance at when you don't actually want to learn anything useful...

Also, my avatar is an image scanned from that book that I colored in photoshop.