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The Dragon 405 ToC and the Dungeon 196 ToC are up. Magic and fey are the themes this month. Lots of cool stuff. I hope you guys enjoy my swordmage article.

It's an archfey that Ari Marmell introduced in the last "Court of the Stars" article.

Yeah, I did the outline at the end of April and it seemed like a natural fit (same for Ari's Bramble Queen).

Well, it only took me 2 1/2 years and three pitches, but I finally was able to introduce one of my favorite monsters to 4e, the vampire rose. It has a special place in my heart since the first D&D adventure I ever owned was B3: Palace of the Silver Princess. I hope everyone enjoys it, as well...

This month's Kara-Tur themes ends with the release of the Samurai and Yakuza themes. I liked them, especially the samurai. I particularly love its iajiutsu power and its level 10 utility, riddle of steel. For some reason, I immediately wanted to make an arcane samurai using the swordmage...

Luckily, Intimidate is a Charisma-based skill. :) Make sure to send in your feedback to the playtest email!

While I was working on the article, two themes emerged: hengeyokai were extremely mobile and agile creatures (in fact, the majority of the subraces had a Dexterity bonus in earlier editions), and they were tricksters. That naturally led me to choose Dexterity as their fixed stat (and I hope I...

Technically, you can no longer talk to animals in human form... :)

Yep, if included every subrace that appeared in previous editions we'd also have the following: drake, weasel, panda, tiger, lynx, owl, hawk, frog, lizard, turtle, and octopus (there may be more, I'm listing these off the top of my head).

While it wasn't my target audience, I did get a lot of feedback during the writing that furries would love it.

I did get to decide which ones to include; it's basically the 3e list minus the weasel. I ultimately settled on 12 subraces, but I can't remember why I excluded the weasel.

Hey, I'm the author of this article, so if you have any questions about it, feel free to ask. Thanks!

I thought I read somewhere that it supports the o-assassin, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was support for both builds.

I think this is a good article. However, I wouldn't allow my players to use it if I didn't think they were mature enough to handle it; then again, I probably wouldn't game with them if they weren't.

Chris rejected one of my pitches the other day and made me feel good about it!

They changed that rule and got rid of it. All hover does now is prevent you from falling when you're stunned.

It's not like 5e is coming out tomorrow.

Though they are not listed on the Dungeon ToC, Greg Bilsland said that this month's MM Updates were going to be Kara-Tur themed. Given that theme, I'm guessing that we'll be getting updates of the Oni and Naga, since the Rakshasa has already been done in the MV.

Sorry, I didn't. While the 3e OA book was among my primary sources, I didn't really look at the nezumi or vanara while working on the article.

I wrote the "Ecology of the Hengeyokai" article, and yes, it does include options for playing a hengeyokai PC.