I also have the books [merged] (info on upcomming Power sources and more)

[Voss]

The lightly armoured, mobile finesse fighter now goes by the name of Ranger. Despite the name of 'Ranger', this class has no magic, no animal companion, and doesn't even necessarily know that much about nature.

By the same token, anyone wanting to play a woodsman with druidic magic and a trained attack lion/tiger/bear/(oh my!) is SoL for now.

Hooray and hooray, respectively. Though to be fair, D&D has never supported a mobile finesse fighter. At least not well. You certainly couldn't do it effectively with the fighter class.

 

[Khaalis]

Curious about the number of epic monsters in the book (a general ballpark figure will do), and who are the top ten highest level (or should that be by XP Value I suppose) monsters in the book (Name, Level & Role)?

The Top 10:

1) Orcus - Level 33 Solo Brute
2) Ancient Red Dragon - Level 30 Solo Soldier
3) Tarasque (Abomination) - Level 30 Solo Brute
4) Runescribed Dracolich - Level 29 Solo Controller
5) Godforged Colossus - Level 29 Elite Brute
6) Efreet Karadjin - Level 28 Soldier
7) Sorrowsworn Deathlord - Level 28 Lurker
8) Earthrage Battlebriar - Level 28 Elite Brute
9) Atropal (Abomination) - Level 28 Elite Brute
10) Adult Blue Dragon - Level 28 Solo Artillery


By epic, did you mean Elites? If so about 90.
If you meant "epic Tier" ... about 75.

 

[Ishmayl]

I think they hired weapons consultants on the images of weapons - some of them look much more realistic and are better represented than all the previous editions.

 

[Ulthwithian]

Cool stuff, all.

The question I have regarding the Warlock powers is:

If a Warlock power says it is associated with a given Pact, do you need to have that pact to pick the power? E.g., if I'm a Star pact Warlock, can I choose Infernal pact powers?

Looking forward to hearing more.

 

[RigaMortus2]

I'm a bit let down that there's reused art in the MM. You'd think that in a production of this magnitude, Wizards could afford ten more illustrations or so......

This isn't unusual. In fact, 3E is the only edition DIDN'T recycle old art.

 

[Fifth Element]

I don't know if this is the right place to put this, but:
The fact that phoenixes are now unintelligent, fiery cousins of rocs is stupid.

This probably isn't the right place to put that.

 

[Ulthwithian]

Re: reused art, I would be willing to bet any money that the only reason it's reused is that the new art submitted was not accepted.

 

[Zinger2099]

To the lucky bookowners:

What other goodies can be found in the DM's Toolbox?

 

[LostInTheMists]

Class Templates

Hey folks!

Since my books are still a few weeks off (they're going to be a Father's Day gift from my wife), could someone give examples of a few of the "class templates" that were mentioned? I've been dying to know how those work.

Thanks!

 

[RigaMortus2]

Would like to re-ask... Can we get any info on alignments? Is Neutral Good and Chaotic Good rolled into Good? Do Paladins have to be Lawful Good, or can they be of other alignments? Any other classes have alignment restrictions?

Any other info you can give regarding alignments?