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Faolyn

(she/her)

• Aug 8, 2022

• #301

Those aartuk look nice. Very alien.

 

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humble minion

Legend

• Aug 8, 2022

• #302

Jeez, they even changed the look of the ssurrans to an obvious riff off the classic Athasian dragon art.

 

pukunui

Legend

• Aug 8, 2022

• #303

Here's the Zodar:

Reminds me a lot of Maximilian from The Black Hole:

 

Parmandur

Book-Friend

• Aug 8, 2022

• #304

Actual defiling rules:

 

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Demetrios1453

Hero

• Aug 8, 2022

• #305

vecna00 said:

Back to the Athasspace/Doomspace thing: I found something interesting. I was looking to see if the Arcane had been brought into 5E yet or if they're just being replaced by the Mercane. I found a wiki about the Arcane in the Forgotten Realms Wiki and came across something that piqued my interest. I have no idea as to the validity of the information but it does get me thinking of a few things...

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The Mercane and Arcane are the same, they just received a re-name sometime in 2e since "arcane" as a name might have caused confusion implying they had more to do with arcane magic than they actually do.

 

Scribe

Legend

• Aug 8, 2022

• #306

This looks interesting enough to dig into further.

 

Yaarel

🇮🇱He-Mage

• Aug 8, 2022

• #307

Parmandur said:

Actual defiling rules:

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So. Doomspace = originally intended to be Dark Sun. Confirmed!



The "defiling" kills all normal vegetation and inflicts notable necrotic damage to creatures, within a 10-foot radius around the caster. Sounds about right.

Is there an image of the rest of the statblock? Probably, a spellcasting feature (or the new not-a-spell format) triggers the defiling?

 

Parmandur

Book-Friend

• Aug 8, 2022

• #308

Yaarel said:

So. Doomspace = originally intended to be Dark Sun. Confirmed!

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Yeah, the seams are pretty obvious.

 

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humble minion

Legend

• Aug 8, 2022

• #309

Yaarel said:

So. Doomspace = originally intended to be Dark Sun. Confirmed!

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Oooh, and the 'defiler' is actually a psionicist, which'll put Athas lore nerds' teeth on edge everywhere...

 

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Demetrios1453

Hero

• Aug 8, 2022

• #310

Parmandur said:

Yeah, the seams are pretty obvious.

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I'm guessing they originally planned it, realized that an incomplete cameo might annoy more than it would please, and are now using this as a trial balloon to gauge interest in a fuller update.

Relatedly, from the vibe I'm getting around here and elsewhere, it looks like, outside pricing, this Spelljammer update seems to be hitting all the right buttons. I'm not seeing much in the way of any real dislikes. Even the change in the cosmology has pretty well been accepted (probably as it's very simple to ret-con if you want to change it to something different or go back to the original).