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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 7233116" data-attributes="member: 57383">Okay, I've started up a mostly empty Working Draft as a placeholders.We ought to decide on what we're calling these things since there's another monster called a Figment in D&amp;D that appear in Dungeon #81 and are similar in concept:FigmentsAristeos’s spells call into being strange creatures formed of illusion, shadow, and negative energy. Called figments, these creatures are free-willed and malevolent, though they appear in the forms shaped by Aristeos’s illusion spells. The figments imbue his illusions with reality, however, making them truly dangerous to the PCs and other living creatures.Originally from Dungeon Magazine #81 (&quot;The Door to Darkness&quot; by James Wyatt, July/August 2000).That was published five years before Harbinger House, so the one we're currently working on has first dibs on the name &quot;FIgment&quot; and we could convert the Dungeon #81 as a &quot;Darkness Figment&quot; since they're weaker manifestations of creatures called Darknesses.That said, we could call the Harbinger House version an &quot;Astral Figment&quot; to distinguish it more clearly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 7233116, member: 57383"] Okay, I've started up a mostly empty Working Draft as a placeholders. We ought to decide on what we're calling these things since there's another monster called a Figment in D&D that appear in [I]Dungeon #81[/I] and are similar in concept: [FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=4][B]Figments[/B][/SIZE] Aristeos’s spells call into being strange creatures formed of illusion, shadow, and negative energy. Called figments, these creatures are free-willed and malevolent, though they appear in the forms shaped by Aristeos’s illusion spells. The figments imbue his illusions with reality, however, making them truly dangerous to the PCs and other living creatures.[/FONT] [RIGHT][I]Originally from Dungeon Magazine #81 ("The Door to Darkness" by James Wyatt, July/August 2000)[/I].[/RIGHT] That was published five years before [I]Harbinger House[/I], so the one we're currently working on has first dibs on the name "FIgment" and we could convert the Dungeon #81 as a "Darkness Figment" since they're weaker manifestations of creatures called Darknesses. That said, we could call the [I]Harbinger House[/I] version an "Astral Figment" to distinguish it more clearly. [/QUOTE]

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