Dragon #357

[heirodule]

How so?

It reminded me of a stats-free article on magical plants that was in Dragon 79


http://www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/periodicals/drgscans/dragon87.html

 

[WhatGravitas]

Me too! That looks great, and I usually don't have much good to say about 3E art. I prefer paintings like this to the obvious-computer-generated-graphic approach.

But you know, since it's probably Andrew Hou, who has painted it, it's probably a computer-generated painting as well?

 

[Alzrius]

One thing that slightly marred an otherwise great issue for me was how the Ecology of the Titan didn't reference the Elder Titan at all from the ELH. I had figured that'd be worth at least a notation.

That seems to be thrown into sharp relief when the stats for Cronus, the biggest baddest titan of them all, are given. As he's a CR 53, it doesn't seem inappropriate to have made him an elder titan, instead of the "garden variety," since his CR is already incredibly high.

 

[Shemeska]

One thing that slightly marred an otherwise great issue for me was how the Ecology of the Titan didn't reference the Elder Titan at all from the ELH. I had figured that'd be worth at least a notation.

*nodding* There were a number of things that weren't mentioned, which is unfortunate because there's a lot of the titans' history within D&D that could have been expanded upon and explored.

 

[Nlogue]

One thing that slightly marred an otherwise great issue for me was how the Ecology of the Titan didn't reference the Elder Titan at all from the ELH. I had figured that'd be worth at least a notation.

That seems to be thrown into sharp relief when the stats for Cronus, the biggest baddest titan of them all, are given. As he's a CR 53, it doesn't seem inappropriate to have made him an elder titan, instead of the "garden variety," since his CR is already incredibly high.

Hey Alzrius!

Yeah, I toyed heavily with the idea of making Cronus an elder titan instead of a titan, and I can't remember why exactly I didn't, except that I vaguely recall reading the Elder Titan in the ELH and thinking...panzy (at least for his CR). I can't double check why I thought this (I'm moving this week and my ELH is packed away), but I also remember not digging the general flavor of the Elder Titan too, at least not for the way I wanted to slice the article...the whole sit back, lethargic, have no interest in anything take on the Elder Titan, while cool, just wasn't the way I wanted to go (emphasis on their connection to the primoridal well-spring of life and chaos). I probably should have given them a shout out though in a sidebar, just didn't think of it and word count limits were crushing in.

 

[Nlogue]

*nodding* There were a number of things that weren't mentioned, which is unfortunate because there's a lot of the titans' history within D&D that could have been expanded upon and explored.

Yeah, I also wanted to include more history on Hyperion, Cronus and other titans mentioned in Planescape as well, but didn't want the whole Ecology to turn into a Historiography instead. I ended up cutting most of the history fleshing out secitons. I may have went too far the this direction, but I wanted to give them some fresh stuff too, and not mire the whole article down in too much history.

 

[chaotix42]

Would someone be so kind as to pony up some info on the new obyrith demon in the Demonomicon this month? What it looks like, and a few of its abilities maybe?

 

[Nightfall]

*five*

Al,

PM/email me. I got a few questions I'd like to ask.

Nick, thanks for the article! Guess I'll pick this up day after tomorrow.

*agrees with MH that this is a nice cover* Though the cover to Dungeon 120 is a tad better in my book.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

*nodding* There were a number of things that weren't mentioned, which is unfortunate because there's a lot of the titans' history within D&D that could have been expanded upon and explored.

So what is covered in the Titan article? Is there an advanced Titan statblock given?

 

[Schmoe]

So what is covered in the Titan article? Is there an advanced Titan statblock given?

Is there ever!

The article has a statblock for Cronus who, at CR 56, is an advanced Titan, Barbarian 20/Legendary Dreadnaught 10. His melee attack is pretty sick, as you can imagine.