Previews for Dragon 356 and Dungeon 147

From the latest Previews data:

Dragon 356
The "Creature Catalog" returns to the pages of
Dragon magazine this month, featuring a hoard of new monsters including angry
mephitis, insect lycanthropes, planar swarms, vile plants, and much more. This issue also
features “The Ecology of the Linnorm," which explores the dragons of Norse mythology,
and Sean K. Reynolds reveals the twisted ideology of tyranny in “Core Beliefs: Hextor.”

Dungeon 147
This month’s Dungeon features three pulse-pounding D&D adventures
including “The Andurian Job,” a low-level Eberron adventure in which the PCs have a
chance to participate in a dangerous heist; “The Inscrutable Ones,” a mid-level adventure
and the final installment of the “Seeds of Sehan” Campaign Arc that pits the PCs against
a horrific infection from the monstrous and maddening Far Realm; and “Into the Maw,”
the ninth installment in the hugely popular Savage Tide Adventure Path, featuring a
perilous voyage into the Abyss itself wherein the PCs must infiltrate a Prison Isle deep in
Demogorgon’s realm of Gaping Maw.

Note that the contents of Previews may not reflect what is actually printed. Previews data for Dragon 355 included the same blurb for the Creature Catalog.

(Hurray for another Eberron adventure! Hopefully this one isn't a murder mystery or yet another spotlight of trains, warforged or Sharn...)

Hey takasi!

takasi said:

From the latest Previews data:

Dragon 356
The "Creature Catalog" returns to the pages of
Dragon magazine this month, featuring a hoard of new monsters including angry
mephitis, insect lycanthropes, planar swarms, vile plants, and much more. This issue also
features “The Ecology of the Linnorm," which explores the dragons of Norse mythology,
and Sean K. Reynolds reveals the twisted ideology of tyranny in “Core Beliefs: Hextor.”

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Its about time someone fixed the Linnorms...their entry in Monster Manual II was atrocious. Although it might have been cooler if Paizo had waited until Dragon #364 which would have been double the issue number (#182) when they were initially introduced.

takasi said:

Dungeon 147
This month’s Dungeon features three pulse-pounding D&D adventures
including “The Andurian Job,” a low-level Eberron adventure in which the PCs have a
chance to participate in a dangerous heist; “The Inscrutable Ones,” a mid-level adventure
and the final installment of the “Seeds of Sehan” Campaign Arc that pits the PCs against
a horrific infection from the monstrous and maddening Far Realm; and “Into the Maw,”
the ninth installment in the hugely popular Savage Tide Adventure Path, featuring a
perilous voyage into the Abyss itself wherein the PCs must infiltrate a Prison Isle deep in
Demogorgon’s realm of Gaping Maw.

Note that the contents of Previews may not reflect what is actually printed. Previews data for Dragon 355 included the same blurb for the Creature Catalog.

(Hurray for another Eberron adventure! Hopefully this one isn't a murder mystery or yet another spotlight of trains, warforged or Sharn...)

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Demogorgon you say...

Bah, the Dragon editors have been told there already exists an insect lycanthrope template on the WotC website, why do they have to confuse people and post TWO insect lycanthrope templates in D&D?

Razz said:

Bah, the Dragon editors have been told there already exists an insect lycanthrope template on the WotC website, why do they have to confuse people and post TWO insect lycanthrope templates in D&D?

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Our definitions of "confuse" vary. Iq utie like it when I come across a second template that does something similar, but not quite the same as another one, because some times the power level is different and it can be applied in different situations. Also, how old and easy to find is that insect lycanthrope template?

GQuail said:

Our definitions of "confuse" vary. Iq utie like it when I come across a second template that does something similar, but not quite the same as another one, because some times the power level is different and it can be applied in different situations. Also, how old and easy to find is that insect lycanthrope template?

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You go the website, type in "entomanothrope" or "insect lycanthrope" and you'll get it fairly quick.

It's right here in fact from typing "insect lycanthrope", first result: Entomanothropy

Upper_Krust said:

Its about time someone fixed the Linnorms...their entry in Monster Manual II was atrocious.

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I couldn't agree more, but it's only an Ecology article. Ecologies don't redesign monsters even when their stats are wildly unpopular- take the elemental weirds, for example.

Hmm.. it appears that the preview text for that issue is almost completely off the mark. The creature collection is actually quite different from what is described there. I will try to get an updated preview for it and post it up here next week. The insect lycanthropes, for example, got cut.

Jason Bulmahn
Managing Editor of Dragon

Jason,

Darn. Oh well at least we get a Creature Catalog. Is Core Beliefs: Hextor in this issue Jason or another one?

we submitted a number of critters for CC VI; here's hoping some made the cut!

I'm sure they did Boz.