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Dear God. This is really something, it's a red dragon with THREE heads and some pretty impressive powers. Most importantly, it's one of the first monsters I've ever seen that shrugs off marks like water. Each turn it just ends a mark upon him and then presumably eats the rest of the party at his...

Firstly, there is some solid stuff in here and most of it is buffs. That's right, I said BUFFS. There are a few powers that got damage downscaled, but the majority are up and sometimes by a fair amount. Biggest change if you can inflict curse damage more than 1/round, which means Warlocks can...

Damn this is a nasty as hell monster. Once again, a great monster with great mechanics combine to make one hell of an horrific creature. Nice upper heroic variety with a lurker, a soldier (swarm) and just a regular old angry head. Pretty nasty disease as well, now that I think of it. I liked the...

The Jester is out and it's a pretty neat blast from the past situation. For those wondering, no it has not been updated to 4E mechanics or anything similar. It's presented as is and it's a lovely blast for the past. If you were expecting them to do some kind of 4E update you'll be disappointed...

Another start of the week MV preview and this time its the Mages of Saruun. I didn't really find this all that invigorating in the end. The Bronze Warder is a monster published in H2 Thunderspire Labyrinth and the Mage wasn't really that exciting mechanically (Their magic missile is an...

I can't help but notice that Mordenkainens Magnificent Emporium has apparently been dug up from the dead and is back on the release schedule. From my point of view, this is one of the most important books released post essentials, particularly with how absolutely broken the magic item system...

So it's now up and we have all of the new themes. Having a quick read through there is nothing of the woeful level of Animal Master and nothing of the "Man Whut" factor of Order Adept. Fit quite nicely into the majority of these themes power levels and have some neat benefits. I still miss...

This is a simple monster presented on one page, with a reasonable enough story gimmick. I think the roleplaying potential and adventure set up here is worth the price of admission. Only problem is with the bound by blood trait, which is confusingly worded and doesn't get the intent of how they...

Force of Nature and the recent article on Kalidnay for Dark Sun just remind me why I actually like (liked?) Wizards and want to keep playing 4E. This adventure though is really neat and while I haven't read over it, my cursory glance through got me more and more excited. The adventure is nice...

Presumably the ???? should be profit, but your mileage may vary. Once again, another interesting monster to add to the ever increasing pile of great monsters*. This is one thing I won't get sick of any time soon from Wizards. There is one thing that makes this monster massively stand out: The...

Another group of really quite nicely designed monsters from the look of things, with quite a lot of fluff as expected - but it is looking ridiculously specific. Not something I really want from a general monster book, while it works perfectly in something designed specifically like Gloomwrought...

So I have got back from my FLGS with Gloomwrought in tow. I must admit it wasn't an easy purchase, as I was most disappointed with Heroes of Shadow and there was the new version of Betrayal at the Haunted House. After careful consideration, DnD won out but it was a very tough decision. In any...

Finally, for the first time in MONTHS and I mean MONTHS I have something unequivocally happy to celebrate. We are finally getting themes in the game as a whole. About damn time Wizards. I couldn't be more excited about this and can't wait to see them! I am most curious about the Outlaw and what...

I was having a discussion with a friend about his paladin and various neat ideas he had, when I suggested that he takes the Cavalier Mount. This was published in a dragon article and at the time, was listed as a paladin utility 4 (which meant a regular paladin could take it eventually as well)...

I was actually quite impressed with this article on upgrading a MV black dragon into epic tier. For one because it's something that is actually in epic tier and second because it's nicely designed (as most MV dragons are frankly). Actually both of the tutorials have been fantastic articles and I...

So now that we've seen the Weaponmaster and the Marshal, I was wondering how many here would have bought the class compendium? It's pretty clear for the most part these were not changed dramatically in any way: Being just errata for the PHB at most. So knowing the way these are turning out...

So I got a PM from Dice4hire today saying he got me some "gift" or another. It informed me it was a "Vagrant Hanger-On". I am of course completely lost by this point, especially because I was unable to PM him to ask what on earth it was about. Then I discovered I have some little dood under my...

Here is a direct link so you can go and get the feats. I'm not sure if they are behind the paywall or not. I would suspect not but I won't say for sure. After a quick look I totally called that you would need multiple feats for a wizard to pick up mage school benefits (from a discussion ages...

Finally something truly awesome from Wizards in every department. I really enjoyed reading this article and while it is merely explaining basics of these things, the logic and general "thought process" explained behind making them did actually help me considerably. I especially liked that many...

Looking over my posting since maybe about November or early December last year - I can't help but notice I really do come across as really bitter (for lack of a better word). Personally I really hate the current direction of the game for a multitude of reasons, but in reality there are only a...