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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8329209" data-attributes="member: 508">Funny you should mention that.&nbsp; When I was writing &quot;The Ecology of the Darkmantle&quot; for Dragon, I immediately made the connection between the two species but wasn't allowed to formally acknowledge it at the time.&nbsp; In my mind, everything that had come before (in previous editions) should still be true, but the WotC team was more of the position that this was a whole new game and that things that were once true could easily be reworked - like infravision becoming darkvision.&nbsp; (At the time, they hadn't yet decided whether the Demiplane of Shadows was going to be an actual plane or remain a demiplane so I wasn't allowed to mention it and my idea of piercers being warped on the Plane of Shadows and returning to the Material Plane as a new species was nixed.)&nbsp; But with the small handful of new monsters being introduced in 3.0 I was provided (I was writing my article with only the bits of draft documents that would eventually become the three core books for 3.0), I went with the darkmantle specifically because the very first &quot;Ecology&quot; article ever had been &quot;The Ecology of the Piercer&quot; and I thought using the darkmantle for the first 3.0 &quot;Ecology&quot; had a nice symmetry to it.Johnathan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Richards, post: 8329209, member: 508"] Funny you should mention that. When I was writing "The Ecology of the Darkmantle" for [i]Dragon[/i], I immediately made the connection between the two species but wasn't allowed to formally acknowledge it at the time. In my mind, everything that had come before (in previous editions) should still be true, but the WotC team was more of the position that this was a whole new game and that things that were once true could easily be reworked - like infravision becoming darkvision. (At the time, they hadn't yet decided whether the Demiplane of Shadows was going to be an actual plane or remain a demiplane so I wasn't allowed to mention it and my idea of piercers being warped on the Plane of Shadows and returning to the Material Plane as a new species was nixed.) But with the small handful of new monsters being introduced in 3.0 I was provided (I was writing my article with only the bits of draft documents that would eventually become the three core books for 3.0), I went with the darkmantle specifically because the very first "Ecology" article ever had been "The Ecology of the Piercer" and I thought using the darkmantle for the first 3.0 "Ecology" had a nice symmetry to it. Johnathan [/QUOTE]

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