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Legend
(First, a premature apology for the admittedly snide tone of this post. It's been just one of those days, and I'm feeling grumpy and more old and bitter than usual!)
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/fc/20060707a Fight club, Vrock Berserker
For starters, this article presents a CR23 unique vrock when the Fiendish Codex (oh so controversially...) put the high end of Demon Lord power around about that range. Then it says that the Lords level of power is 'near-divine' Hmm. Not satisfied with that, they then used the 3e (Savage Species) ECL 16 for a vrock, rather than the 3.5e ECL 18. And the ECL doesn't include any modification whatsoever for the minimum 5 extra Outsider HD he would have had to gain to advance to Huge size.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/sh/20060710a Steal This Hook - Spawn of Evil.
Ooh, an article on introducing Spawn of Tiamat into your game (or 'Spawns' of Tiamat, as they put it). Mind you, the article doesn't actually give any hints for integrating the Spawn into the mythology of your campaign, which might actually have been useful. The whole push-selling of the Dragonspawn is really starting to get on my nerves. They take up a sizeable percentage of the pagecount of MMIV, a sizeable percentage of the miniatures in the WotDQ set, and pretty much all the preview material we've seen for the MMIV. Seriously, it looks like someone at WotC has decided to make these damn things popular through hype, advertising, and cross-promotion, no matter what it takes. Is there so little interesting material in the MMIV that the Dragonspawn are all they want to tell us about?
Oh, and 'Arcanisses' is the silliest-sounding plural ever, so there!
Ok, enough whining. Feel free to ignore!
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/fc/20060707a Fight club, Vrock Berserker
For starters, this article presents a CR23 unique vrock when the Fiendish Codex (oh so controversially...) put the high end of Demon Lord power around about that range. Then it says that the Lords level of power is 'near-divine' Hmm. Not satisfied with that, they then used the 3e (Savage Species) ECL 16 for a vrock, rather than the 3.5e ECL 18. And the ECL doesn't include any modification whatsoever for the minimum 5 extra Outsider HD he would have had to gain to advance to Huge size.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/sh/20060710a Steal This Hook - Spawn of Evil.
Ooh, an article on introducing Spawn of Tiamat into your game (or 'Spawns' of Tiamat, as they put it). Mind you, the article doesn't actually give any hints for integrating the Spawn into the mythology of your campaign, which might actually have been useful. The whole push-selling of the Dragonspawn is really starting to get on my nerves. They take up a sizeable percentage of the pagecount of MMIV, a sizeable percentage of the miniatures in the WotDQ set, and pretty much all the preview material we've seen for the MMIV. Seriously, it looks like someone at WotC has decided to make these damn things popular through hype, advertising, and cross-promotion, no matter what it takes. Is there so little interesting material in the MMIV that the Dragonspawn are all they want to tell us about?
Oh, and 'Arcanisses' is the silliest-sounding plural ever, so there!
Ok, enough whining. Feel free to ignore!
