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The Daggerburg Goblins are a group near Harkenwold that favor ambushing. They have the most new monsters of any entry, with 11 new stat blocks for goblins, hobgoblins, and bugbears. Higher level goblins than are found in the MV, with goblins going up to level 5, hobgoblins up to 7, and...

No monster math and as I said, as far as I can tell the only change is that brute solos are getting more HP. The Cadaver Collector doesn't have any way to raise it's defenses, but it loves grabbing and impaling PCs on itself. Not sure what else to say about the Barrowhaunts. They're a group...

Everything's tied in it's fluff to the Nentir Vale. It's all easily refluffable, and some ties are pretty weak. Here's a list of all the entries with my notes in parentheses: Abyssal Plague Demons Barrowhaunts (group of undead former-adventurers) Bitterstrike (Adult White Dragon) Blackfang...

Glad you asked! I've flipped past it a few times and the art's always popped out at me, but hadn't had a chance to read it yet. It looks really fun. It's an Elite Brute, so its defenses are a little lower than I might have liked, but it has resist 15 to all damage coming from outside, so...

Sure, what're you looking for? There's a few groups of undead, the Blackfang Gnolls, some Abyssal Plague demons, some orcs, some goblins, drakes, dragonborn, tieflings, witches, humans, elven druids, drow, things called mooncalves (aberrants I haven't read about yet), shadar-kai, treants...

No argument here. It's almost certainly the one I'll end up reusing the most (how often do I really need a town hall?). Also agree about DDM - I haven't even broken the plastic on the tokens that came with this, though I do see there's at least one more enorminator, which I've used to turn a...

I like it. It's part of a 4-page entry on Treants of the Nentir Vale. He's a controller, and I think he fulfills that role well (though he's a melee-based controller, not ranged). He's pretty vulnerable to fire, but gets to swing back if he gets hit by a fire attack, too.

Bitterstrike is a level 10 solo brute, so basically an adult white dragon. Mechanically, she's nearly indistinguishable from a level-up Young White Dragon from MV, though she gained a triggered attack to damage and push nearby enemies as an effect once per encounter. The entry for her though...

Completely serious. Here's the complete breakdown: Level 1: 4 2: 6 3: 14 4: 14 5: 20 6: 20 7: 18 8: 20 9: 14 10: 15 11: 3 12: 8 13: 4 14: 6 15: 7 16: 3 17: 2 18: 3 19: 2 20: 1 Looking through the HP math, it seems that Lurker Solos retain the old math [(8+Con+Level*8)*4], but Brute Solos are...

Sadly Aegeri, you're right. You're not going to be happy. I certainly agree with you that Paragon and Epic are horribly under-represented, but I'm not as personaly upset as this book happens to fall right in the range of my current campaign. If it was a more balanced approach (like MM3), I'd...

Love it! Each side has two "areas" that look to me like new art. One is a large generic building that still shows about 3 squares of street around it, so your PCs won't feel constrained to stay inside neccessarily. One is a generic outdoor wooded area with some hills and rocks. One is an...

The Peryton entry has two monsters and is two pages (one page all fluff and the other page is mostly stat blocks). The "Peryton" is a level 4 skirmisher and the "Elder Peryton" is a level 6 elite soldier. Both have the ability to pull creatures grabbed by them (no OAs), attack and grab at the...

I've barely flipped through it at this point. So far, I'm happy. The biggest drawback to me so far is the binding (hope you liked the Shadowfell book's binding), which I already complained about in another thread. That said, my Shadowfell book hasn't fallen apart yet, so I don't know that I...

Just picked this up from my FLGS a few minutes ago. Happy to answer questions as I'm available. The product comes in a sleeve of similar cardstock as the Shadowfell Box set. There's 8 sheets of tokens printed like the Shadowfell set (bloodied on one side with the name of the creature)...

I'm mainly a DM, and my campaign is wrapping up here in another month. The group was 90% people who'd never played D&D before at all, and Essentials had just launched, so I ran with it. It's worked really well for them, especially since the majority of them don't think about D&D outside the 3...

Calystrx actually originally appeared in the Hammerfast supplement (which I'm using for my current campaign right now - though I'm replacing Calystrx with Sata and Ekoba from SaveVersusDeath.com). This appears to be a slight tweaking of that dragon on the damage numbers, with the addition of...

I would have loved to hear from the authors how this page of the book happened. It looks like they had a piece of art they really liked, but just couldn't seem to justify to themselves that they needed to print 2 different troll stat blocks in the same level range (they're twins, so I guess the...

Yeah, I threw mine away too. I mean, I guess they had to have some sort of box, since that's probably the best way to package the cards with it (which are amazing, by the way - but only because it's a non-random selection of cards). But I feel like the price point of the box was a little bit...

Is there any liveblogging or coverage of the second Product Spotlight seminar that was supposed to happen today? I assume the presentation will be the same, but I was hoping for some clarification on the Hero Builder handbook (that's now supposed to have Themes - except it was also cancelled?)...

No, not even all the HotFL races - when he clicked through "Build a Quick D&D Essentials Character" at the beginning and made a thief there was no option for Dwarf (around 1:20 in the video). Presumably because Dwarves don't have a Dex bonus. I'd imagine you can still make a Dwarf Thief if you...