Dragon #349

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It's a wonder that there's any humans left in Faerun without a dash of something alien in their veins.

 

[edbonny]

It's a wonder that there's any humans left in Faerun without a dash of something alien in their veins.

Whizbang,

We need a new race, the "Almost-Human" -- somewhere back in time, some ancestor of yours mated with something other than human although nobody knows what it was and you have gained some minor ability that could be just as easily attributable to an elemental as it could a fiend, dragon, dwarf or flumph.

- Ed

 

[Razz]

Surprisingly, I got mine in the mail today so I can help answer questions too.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

We need a new race, the "Almost-Human" -- somewhere back in time, some ancestor of yours mated with something other than human although nobody knows what it was and you have gained some minor ability that could be just as easily attributable to an elemental as it could a fiend, dragon, dwarf or flumph.

That or a comparable template would certainly streamline things.

 

[Ranger REG]

Hitting the Bullseye, by Eric Cagle - This article covers a large number of new bows and crossbows, as well as new types of ammunition. Sidebars reprint the information on composite bows and firing crossbows.

The Horde, by Edward Bonny, Brian Cortijo, and Laszlo Koller - A massive fourteen-page article covers the Hordelands of the Forgotten Realms! It has an overview of the Endless Waste before covering the peoples that live in the Hordelands. A full-page map precedes the gazetteer of the area which takes up most of the article, before ending with 3.5 stats for the dzalmus dragon (a true dragon). Sidebars cover where to get more information on the Hordelands (the 2E supplement on WotC's website, and a web enhancement for this article on Paizo's site), as well as the Taangan and Tuigan people, two new regions FR characters can choose (the Endless Wastes and the Lake of Mists), a timeline of the Endless Wastes, Tuigan sayings and superstitions, and two new regional feats (Horse Nomad and Raumathar Heritor).

The Ecology of the Ogre Mage, by Tim Hitchcock - This article covers the history of ogre magi, their phsiology, their psychology and society, advanced ogre mages, and gives stats for an ogre mage fighter 5/kensai 3. Sidebars cover Knowledge checks about ogre mages, ogre mages in the real world, and alternate ogre mages (altering their spell-like abilities for either psionics or shadow-based magic to bring them in line with other strains of ogre mage as per their creation myth).

These three above are enough to drop $8 (US) for the issue. The rest I'm not so sure.

 

[Shemeska]

Between Dagon and the article on the Horde, this was a really nice issue.

Regarding Dagon: The line about the Obyriths predating the deities is nice, fitting in nicely with the earlier timeline of lower planar prehistory from Hellbound. What I most liked though was the name dropping of various Obyrith lords and their fates, some of whom we've heard about before and one or two of which IIRC are new. Very cool.

Regarding the Hordelands: The surviving Imaskari wizard was a nice touch, as well as the abandoned kobold nation under the region. I really liked the map, though I have some questions about some locations on it that aren't expanded in the article and I'm not keen on the 2e material on the area to know if they were ever detailed back then.

And as always, Zogonia made me laugh. Love it.

 

[frankthedm]

sweet! that's an enormous article!

Maybe even cyclopean.

 

[Nightfall]

Stupid B&N doesn't have it yet! I so was looking forward to picking this up today. Guess I'll have to wait for next week.

 

[dargoth3]

Legacy of the Ancients
by Eric L. Boyd
More planetouched races inhabit the forgotten realms than just aasimar, tieflings, and the elemental genasi. Four new planar-blooded races: the azerblood, celadrin, d'hin'ni, and worghest.

Dragon 349

The Horde, by Edward Bonny, Brian Cortijo, and Laszlo Koller - A massive fourteen-page article covers the Hordelands of the Forgotten Realms! It has an overview of the Endless Waste before covering the peoples that live in the Hordelands. A full-page map precedes the gazetteer of the area which takes up most of the article, before ending with 3.5 stats for the dzalmus dragon (a true dragon). Sidebars cover where to get more information on the Hordelands (the 2E supplement on WotC's website, and a web enhancement for this article on Paizo's site), as well as the Taangan and Tuigan people, two new regions FR characters can choose (the Endless Wastes and the Lake of Mists), a timeline of the Endless Wastes, Tuigan sayings and superstitions, and two new regional feats (Horse Nomad and Raumathar Heritor).

It has been a VERY long time since Ive bought 2 Dragons in a row

 

[Cthulhudrew]

It's a wonder that there's any humans left in Faerun without a dash of something alien in their veins.

Hmm... maybe Gamma World isn't set on Earth at all, but Toril? All the mutants and the Pure Strain Humans finally having had enough?