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Thank you. I don't have the time or level of dedication to follow the teeming gleemax posts, track down all the tidbits buried in designer blogs, and buy and pore over every new supplement; and I don't have the encyclopedic knowledge of what's already been leaked to cull what's truly new from...

I came up with this before I saw your post, but the two interpretations are very different and not necessarily incompatible, so they could potentially co-exist. If it's not too late :) Gnarlytoes, the oldest and wisest elder treant, lives high in an almost impassable mountain range, where he...

It's been a long time, but a few things I seem to recall (parts may be faulty): A four-armed gargoyle. Three entrance tunnels, but the real entrance was hidden off to the side of one of them. In fact, that was a theme. The obvious entrance was almost(?) always a trap. A "lady or the sack (of...

Added (see attached). Interesting... it looks like Exemplars of Evil must play with the NPC special abilities because many CRs aren't the expected value. -Pat

Simply use the new "points of light" concept. In my mind, the allure of the Forgotten Realms was at its peak when all we had were hints, scattered across dozens of Dragon magazine articles. When the stories were passionate, the characters were isolated and mysterious, and the world was dark...

Very, very steeped in the 80s, but quite funny. From Dragon #72: Valley Elf, He's a Valley Elf, Valley Elf, He's a Valley Elf . . . So cool, so fair, With chartreuse hair, So young, secure —— "Fer sure, fer sure, like, oh, man, I was really down today, like, sooo down, I almost flunked...

Out of curiosity, I measured my biggest RPGs. I didn't use a caliper or anything particularly accurate, just a ruler flat against the table. Three fattest books: Talislanta 4th Edition — 1-7/16", 499 numbered pages (504 actual excluding end leafs) The Great Pendragon Campaign — 1-1/4", 429...

You're just thinking about it the wrong way. A Large or a Huge or a Gargantuan weapon isn't just a really big weapon being wielded by a Medium-sized creature. It's a weapon scaled to fit a creature of enormous size. A Gargantuan creature is between 32 and 64 feet tall. If a 6' human can wield a...

And since a Medium greatsword weighs 8 lbs, and weight octuples each time an object's size increases a category, the Gargantuan zweihander weighs 4,096 lb (more than 2 tons). Oof. Paging Thor...

The Rim of Fire book is very well done, but it won't appeal to everyone. The book covers Earth's sector, and the majority of Earth-descended humans are portrayed as racist supremacists. While I admire the quality of the book, I wouldn't want to play there. The other GT sector book is Behind the...

Thouls are hiding everywhere: The good: "Thoul be mine ere the dawn's fair light!" saith the sinister villaineth, speakingeth to the fair princess(-eth). The bad: The thoul Lord of the dismal keep, looming over the huts of the terror-striken villagers. The cutesy-wutsey: Athena just loves the...

For the lurkers who can't download attachments, here's a current semi-colon delimited version (minus the sourcebook page): CR; Name (or role); Race; Classes and Levels; Alignment; Sourcebook; Page; Setting; Nation 0.5; Edar; kobold; expert 3; LE; Races of the Dragon; p. 144; ; 0.5; Haydith...

How do you think I've been checking the list? :) The consistent semi-colon delimiters make it easy to import into any spreadsheet. I think both the pure text and the spreadsheet version are useful (pure text is more transportable, and it's more accessible since you need to register before you...

You got beat for once! Echohawk snuck in Savage Species and PHBII. The master list of all NPCs is current up to this post (see http://www.enworld.org/showpost.php?p=3095367&postcount=45)

I think Ogrork's "abnormal" standard is a good start (unique, class levels, etc). No plain monsters, and no sample template creatures unless they meet those criteria (e.g. no to an axiomatic bulette, yes to a human vampire fighter 5). But I'm not sure about advanced creatures like the Golden...

Thanks! Caught up through the ELH. The complied list of all NPCs is here: http://www.enworld.org/showpost.php?p=3095367&postcount=45 Any other books? -Pat

That's an interesting question. Does the Frost Giant Jarl from the Monster Manual qualify? We have at least these to go: Deities and Demigods (3E) Epic Level Handbook (3E) Players Handbook II Savage Species (3E)

Statistics NPCs: 615 CR: average 9.62, mode 10, mean 9 Alignment: 66 CE, 59 NE, 88 LE, 76 CN, 64 N, 63 LN, 61 CG, 63 NG, 64 LG, 2 any E, 2 any L, 7 any or V

Thanks, Echohawk! Looks like that's all of them. I updated the master list in post #45 with all the fixes up to this point. I also included Ogrork's suggestion (labeled which books were 3E), and added the books DM_Jeff indicated had no NPCs. -Pat

(Updated list a couple posts above with Races of the Dragon.) Yes, thats one of the silly typos I came across. Even though it'd be easy to derive, I'd prefer to have it confirmed by somone with the book if possible. Here's the complete list: CR 0?; Hill Giant Brute; hill giant; barbarian 2...