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- Interview with Lead Designer of Pathfinder Interview and some small spoilers for the Pathfinder RPG from Jason Bulmahn, lead designer of the Pathfinder RPG.
- More options for Hexographer hex mapper Users can now customize the background colors and icon sizes of each terrain type as well as change the colors of individually placed symbols.
- Mother's Day Sale Generic Universe Publishing is celebrating Mother's Day with a 25% discount now through May 10th (Mother's Day in the US).
- Official D&D Updates:
- 4E Monster Manual Art Gallery Before the Monster Manual 2 releases later this month, we wanted to first present the art gallery from the first Monster Manual. Over 300 creatures, from aboleth to zombie!
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[*]Excerpts: MM2 Beholder Ultimate Tyrant In today’s final Monster Manual 2 preview, we present the most fearsome eye tyrant of all -- the Beholder Ultimate Tyrant!
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Some Early D&DI information:
Hey guys. I posted this over on our forums, but I wanted to make sure you guys had it here for you own discussions/perusal. Just an early look at things that should be showing up in the next update for Character Builder and Compendium and a bit about some possible future developer support:
In related sneak peek news, we are working on another project in the same vein as the XML output version for Character Builder, with the intention of getting more information into the hands of people who want to make tools that interact with the Character Builder and Compendium. You can check out Don's blog to get an idea of the type of information you might see included in this project. I have no clue when we’ll have something like this compiled and ready for people, but I knew some of you would be interested to hear about it.
- Character Builder/Compendium Update - Starting on Tuesday, June 2nd, we will release new updates for the D&D Character Builder and the D&D Compendium on the first Tuesday of every month instead of the fourth Tuesday. The scheduled May 26th update will be moved to June 2nd, and updates will fall on the first Tuesday of every month going forward.
- Hybrid Classes – Originally we held off on including the Hybrid Class rules in the Character Builder because of the heavy playtest nature of the rules. You guys have given us a lot of feedback and R&D is behind it too, so it looks like we’ll be seeing Hybrid Class rules in the June update to Character Builder.
- Monk Playtest – With the way information is compiled and added to the Character Builder and Compendium, it generally takes four to eight weeks to get Dragon content into the tools. We all want to get our hands on the monk, and the devs must love us because it looks like we’ll be getting the Monk in the Character Builder and Compendium on the June 2nd update.
In related sneak peek news, we are working on another project in the same vein as the XML output version for Character Builder, with the intention of getting more information into the hands of people who want to make tools that interact with the Character Builder and Compendium. You can check out Don's blog to get an idea of the type of information you might see included in this project. I have no clue when we’ll have something like this compiled and ready for people, but I knew some of you would be interested to hear about it.
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