D&D 4E manual of the planes 4e

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yipwyg42

First Post

• Mar 10, 2008

• #1

Please tell me the creature on the cover of the book is actually in the book.

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LordArchaon

Explorer

• Mar 10, 2008

• #2

yipwyg42 said:

Please tell me the creature on the cover of the book is actually in the book.

Here is the product link

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dndacc/218937200

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I would bet it, cause it's a classic: Astral Dreadnought. It's on the 3.0 Manual of the Planes and also on the 3.0 Psionics Handbook if I remember correctly:
Astral Dreadnought in Manual of the Planes Art Gallery
I don't know much about previous editions, but I bet that it comes from 2e Planescape...

 

Mouseferatu

Hero

• Mar 10, 2008

• #3

LordArchaon said:

I don't know much about previous editions, but I bet that it comes from 2e Planescape...

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Nope. Because it's also on the cover of the 1E MotP.

 

Atlatl Jones

Explorer

• Mar 10, 2008

• #4

LordArchaon said:

I would bet it, cause it's a classic: Astral Dreadnought. It's on the 3.0 Manual of the Planes and also on the 3.0 Psionics Handbook if I remember correctly:
Astral Dreadnought in Manual of the Planes Art Gallery
I don't know much about previous editions, but I bet that it comes from 2e Planescape...

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It was on the cover of the 1e Manual of the Planes. The 4e cover is an homage to it.

 

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Soel

First Post

• Mar 10, 2008

• #5

I like Tony D's version of the Dreadnought from Planescape Monstrous Supplement 2, but I am actually jazzed for this book, as opposed to the 3e version, which I never bothered with (as well as the Planar Handbook, just left it on the shelves.)

 

Echohawk

Shirokinukatsukami fan

• Mar 10, 2008

• #6

Mouseferatu said:

Nope. Because it's also on the cover of the 1E MotP.

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Obscure monster trivia: Curiously, that creature was called an "ethereal dreadnought" in the 1st Edition Manual of the Planes (see the first Illusions/Phantasms example on p19). It only became known as an astral dreadnought with the publication of the 1991 AD&D trading cards, where it was merely a large creature. It reappeared as the astral dreadnought in the Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix II and again in the 3rd Edition Manual of the Planes).

 

Klaus

First Post

• Mar 10, 2008

• #7

Mouseferatu said:

Nope. Because it's also on the cover of the 1E MotP.

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And that cover rocks a fair ammount, I reckon.

 

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Steely Dan

Banned

Banned

• Mar 10, 2008

• #8

Klaus said:

And that cover rocks a fair ammount, I reckon.

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Yep, my buddy bought the book back in 1987 simply because of the cover (I don't think he ever actually read it).

I originally thought it was the Astral plane itself taken a form to attack the poor schmuck on the cover.

 

Mercule

Adventurer

• Mar 10, 2008

• #9

Echohawk said:

Obscure monster trivia: Curiously, that creature was called an "ethereal dreadnought" in the 1st Edition Manual of the Planes

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Then I'm not insane. I recognized it as an ethereal dreadnought, but everyone else was calling it astral. Of course, I did the 1E MotP and skipped Planescape and all the planar lore that is descended from it.

 

Nikosandros

Golden Procrastinator

• Mar 10, 2008

• #10

Atlatl Jones said:

It was on the cover of the 1e Manual of the Planes. The 4e cover is an homage to it.

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It was on the cover, but IIRC there's only a passing mention of it and no stats in that book.