D&D Outsider - Wilden & Shardmind

[DracoSuave]

Firstly, Stabmen sounds like the best thing ever. I will give all the money to Stabman.

Secondly, not every race appeals to me. I think drow are kinda stupid, as well as the whole 'If you put a race underground they turn chaotic or evil or both and get the name Dark _______' mentality. Or in the case of dwarves, more underground. Bah. But I don't think drow shouldn't be in the game, far from it. The game, as a whole, is made better by multiple options, and for every person that absolutely hates one option, someone else absolutely loves it. For whatever reason.

Just because drow are stupid doesn't make anyone stupid for liking them, or the game stupid for having them.

Ah, subjectivity.

Time to hop on the character creater and make that Wilden Wild Battlemind/Wilder/Wildrunner i've always wanted. Any ideas for an epic destiny?

 

[Kingreaper]

Time to hop on the character creater and make that Wilden Wild Battlemind/Wilder/Wildrunner i've always wanted. Any ideas for an epic destiny?

Multiclass into barbarian, and take Fury of the Wild?

 

[DracoSuave]

That's quite doable, seeing as I'm already in barbarian for Wildrunner!

 

[I'm A Banana]

Wilden Wild Battlemind/Wilder/Wildrunner

Make him in Dark Sun, so you can have a Wild Talent.

And then join him up with a shardmind battlemind, and a warforged warlord/warlock|warden.

WILDWARBATTLEMINDS UNITE!

 

[Nahat Anoj]

While I don't find their default racial stories to be particularly interesting, I really like the wilden and shardminds and feel they are valuable additions to my game. I especially like shardminds because they add a sci-fi flair to my games that I think is cool.

 

[Dungeoneer]

I actually thought the stories for Wilden and Shardminds were way cooler than hooks for playing sentient plants and sentient rocks had any right to be. They also have decent RP hooks and distinctive physical characteristics (I love that Wilden have seasons and Shardminds can lose their forms). They're not for every campaign, but they're there if you want 'em.

The art didn't grab me, though.

 

[Jhaelen]

You know what 4E needs?

Official art contests.

Didn't they actually do some? I vaguely remember a call for submissions to pick art for the ... uh ... catastrophic (?) dragons.

The 4e shardmind art is kind of okay, though I'd prefer them looking more weird (i.e. not bipedal, symmetrical humanoids) or even undefined (transformer-style).

The wilden art sucks big time, though. I'd prefer either something like the Wood Woads (or the Sylvans from the Dark Age of Camelot MMORPG) or something more sinister looking similar to the 4e dryad battleshape or 'Swamp Thing'.

 

[Dungeoneer]

Didn't they actually do some? I vaguely remember a call for submissions to pick art for the ... uh ... catastrophic (?) dragons.

The 4e shardmind art is kind of okay, though I'd prefer them looking more weird (i.e. not bipedal, symmetrical humanoids) or even undefined (transformer-style).

The wilden art sucks big time, though. I'd prefer either something like the Wood Woads (or the Sylvans from the Dark Age of Camelot MMORPG) or something more sinister looking similar to the 4e dryad battleshape or 'Swamp Thing'.

To be fair to the artists, if the art direction was in fact 'plant-like cat people' then I suppose they were doing the best they could.

 

[phloog]

The big problem is that there IS a Wilden word for their race, but it translates roughly as Battleblademind.

 

[Ryujin]

As far as the Shardmind artwork is concerned, to me they tend to be somewhat less symetrical than I would prefer for creatures that were formed out of the gate holding back the ultimate stuff of chaos. I think of creatures as being like the Star Trek Tholians are sometimes depicted; formed of large and perfect crystals, in logical arrangements. I don't see chaos being opposed by things that are 'imperfect.'