D&D 5E Does anyone who got an mm at Gencon want to offer up spoilers to us?
the Jester
Legend
I, for one, appreciate a fairly lethal game.
It seems that you share my enthusiasm.
I'm A Banana
Potassium-Rich
I'm curious: what to the rogue modron get? Are they PC-race-able?
I, for one, appreciate a fairly lethal game.
It seems that you share my enthusiasm.
Why yes; yes I do.
Lancelot
Adventurer
Rakshasa link to the Nine Hells predates 2e. I recall a "creature frequency" table under the Devil section of the 1e Monster Manual 2 which included rakshasa alongside other inhabitants, such as imps, hellcats, stench kow, etc. I don't have my copy in front of me, but I'm pretty darn certain of this. It was either in the MM2, or it was in a Dragon magazine issue of the same era (e.g. the classic #75/76/91 Hells series, or a response/errata by Gygax or Greenwood to same).
Given this was (to the best of my knowledge) the very first mention of the plane of origin for rakshasa, then it's not necessarily odd or unprecedented. They've just decided to take it old-school. I kind of appreciate this. I also like the old school empyreans/titans (back to being Greek), the return to the arcanaloth (from the completely unnecessary ravasta), cambions = cambions, succubi = demons (or devils, whatever your preference), and modrons as core. Better days for us Planescapers.
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Li Shenron
Legend
Such a simple and yet good change.
Makes total XP match better the difficulty of an encounter every time and not just on the long term.
Allows for some creatures to even occasionally summon others more powerful than themselves.
As [MENTION=30022]Lancelot[/MENTION] noted, this is a return to 1st ed AD&D lore. The table that [MENTION=30022]Lancelot[/MENTION] refers to is found in MM2 (under the Devil entry). And in Dragon 75, Ed Greenwood's discussion of the 2nd Hell (Dis) refers to the role of rakshasas on that plane.
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