Sorry, had to dodge a hail storm here in Oklahoma.
Master's Forge: Introduces a new feat Artisan Craftsman. Each time you take the feat you gain the knowledge of how to incorporate one or more item quality (depening on how many ranks you have in the chosen skill).
Item qualties are Acid Washed, Basket Hilt, Blood Grove, Caster Armor, Deceptive, Enhanced Bracing, Enviromental Design. Folded Metal, Lightweight, Long-Range, Ornate, Pefect Balance, Razor Sharp, Reinforced, Resilient, Segmented, Serated, Vital Coverage.
Still reading the Core Beliefs: St Cuthbert.
No advanced Kaorti, but a new servant creature the Urquirsh is introduced.
The alternative Chess set side bar tells what creatureso use as what pieces. Yugoloth Chess would be Pawns=Skeroloths, Knights=Canoloths, Bishops=Mezoloths, Rooks=Piscoloths, Queen=Arcaloths, and King=Ultroloth.
Savage Tides: The River Styx: Includes a Knowedge (Planes) check, it's effects on people and where it flows through the planescape.
Have not read the Volo's Guide, but an overview includes the current status of the churches of Tiamat, Gilgeam and Hoar. The politics of Thay, Mulhorand and northern wizards. And the status of the organizations in the area.
Arcane Feats: Arcane Focus Item: Allows you to sacrifice a prepared spell to spontaneously apply a metamacic feat you know to lower level spell.
Arcane Shorthand: Spells take less room in your spellbook
Book Smart: You may make untrained Knowledge skill checks for DC's higher than 10
Eldritch Claws: Use an Eldritch blast as a Claw attack
Forcefull Spell: You spell slams the target
Grappeling Blast: You can use your Eldritch blast while grappeling
Slimy Spell: Your spells nauseate the target
Wedded to the light: Your connection to the Positive plane turns your familiar into a creature of living light.
And the next and last issue;
Super Villains of D&D
Demonomicon of Iggwilv: The Appendicies and new Demon Lords
Relics of Greyhawk
Mysteries of D&D: The Darkest secrets of D&D
The Wizard's Three: Where they discover their eavesdropper
Elminster vs Rastlin
The Ecology of the Tarrasque (staring the Monster Hunters Association)
And the final Volo's Guide, Dragonmarks, Savage Tidings, Class Acts, Nodwik and the Order of the Stick.
Sounds like I have another storm to duck, be back when it passes.