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<blockquote data-quote="Sanglorian" data-source="post: 5970062" data-attributes="member: 83822"><p>The strangest place I have seen this picture show up is as part of the cover of the <em>Fantasy Figure Modeller </em>magazine that layabout Jez masturbates to in the terrific British comedy <em>Peep Show. <</em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RnKtn7_4cQ#t=5m20s" target="_blank">Peep Show S01E02 P01 - YouTube</a>> It shows that the picture has widespread appeal, if nothing else!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's such a long article I didn't re-read the whole thing, but the parts that I skimmed seemed like interesting touches. The halflings it describes are still fairly sedentary, more likely to roam within a small area than a large one. The riddles and the collecting things are nice touches.</p><p></p><p>Four in darkness: Ah yes, a tie-in article for their new product. Not a great surprise. The creatures of elemental evil aren't THE most iconic or expanded upon of D&D's creations, but they retain their own reasonably solid fanbase, thanks to the classic module. (and persistent eaten by a grue meme) This is definitely worth maintaining and building upon. So Monte updates their stats for the new edition, and also gives us a template for corrupted elementals, and 8 new spells giving elementalists lots of options to grief you, whatever your resistances and weaknesses are. So lots of useful material here, and a little bit of advice on how to use it. Evil creatures don't generally get along, so you can play one off against another, and maybe get a little extra profit for yourself into the bargain. A no-nonsense, well balanced article, providing some updated old stuff, some new stuff and some advice on how to use it? Sounds like a pretty decent combo to me.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>I agree—the spells in particular are well-done, giving more options for low-level elementalists. At the time, the idea of elementals shaped like humanoid moles and humanoid flames really appealed to me—since then, I've seen elementals-shaped-like-other-things done to death! </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You can see that they had a lot to learn about prestige class design, with obnoxious requirements (Alertness!). A lot of harm was done by the rule that level could not be a prestige class requirement, but prestige classes shouldn't be available before about 5th or 6th level. The consequence of this is that prestige classes had high skill requirements, since that's one way of ensuring that characters are of a particular level. But the Lightbearer requiring 8 ranks in Knowledge (religion) makes it basically impossible for many characters to take it until a very high level—by which point, there are better options open to them.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's the terrific Carlo Arellano illustrations that really make this article for me. The breathdrinker, in particular, is haunting and frightening. The singing underworld aberrations the Tralusk are another cool monster. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This was a really cool location.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p>I thought the felldrakes were so cute! Now I wonder if it might not be easier to just use real dinosaurs.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Sanglorian, post: 5970062, member: 83822"] The strangest place I have seen this picture show up is as part of the cover of the [I]Fantasy Figure Modeller [/I]magazine that layabout Jez masturbates to in the terrific British comedy [I]Peep Show. <[/I][url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RnKtn7_4cQ#t=5m20s]Peep Show S01E02 P01 - YouTube[/url]> It shows that the picture has widespread appeal, if nothing else! It's such a long article I didn't re-read the whole thing, but the parts that I skimmed seemed like interesting touches. The halflings it describes are still fairly sedentary, more likely to roam within a small area than a large one. The riddles and the collecting things are nice touches. Four in darkness: Ah yes, a tie-in article for their new product. Not a great surprise. The creatures of elemental evil aren't THE most iconic or expanded upon of D&D's creations, but they retain their own reasonably solid fanbase, thanks to the classic module. (and persistent eaten by a grue meme) This is definitely worth maintaining and building upon. So Monte updates their stats for the new edition, and also gives us a template for corrupted elementals, and 8 new spells giving elementalists lots of options to grief you, whatever your resistances and weaknesses are. So lots of useful material here, and a little bit of advice on how to use it. Evil creatures don't generally get along, so you can play one off against another, and maybe get a little extra profit for yourself into the bargain. A no-nonsense, well balanced article, providing some updated old stuff, some new stuff and some advice on how to use it? Sounds like a pretty decent combo to me.[/QUOTE] I agree—the spells in particular are well-done, giving more options for low-level elementalists. At the time, the idea of elementals shaped like humanoid moles and humanoid flames really appealed to me—since then, I've seen elementals-shaped-like-other-things done to death! You can see that they had a lot to learn about prestige class design, with obnoxious requirements (Alertness!). A lot of harm was done by the rule that level could not be a prestige class requirement, but prestige classes shouldn't be available before about 5th or 6th level. The consequence of this is that prestige classes had high skill requirements, since that's one way of ensuring that characters are of a particular level. But the Lightbearer requiring 8 ranks in Knowledge (religion) makes it basically impossible for many characters to take it until a very high level—by which point, there are better options open to them. It's the terrific Carlo Arellano illustrations that really make this article for me. The breathdrinker, in particular, is haunting and frightening. The singing underworld aberrations the Tralusk are another cool monster. This was a really cool location. I thought the felldrakes were so cute! Now I wonder if it might not be easier to just use real dinosaurs. [/QUOTE]
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