Dragon #400

[AntlerDruid]

I have to say....I was impressed with May's Dragon and definitely impressed with June's Dragon.

Yay warlock updates!! my favorite class!

Yay shadow themes! love themes

Yay shadow items!

 

[Destil]

I don't see anything about the warlock, but I see this:


A playtest? That's interesting. Will the CC: Cleric article become a playtest now, retroactively?

Yeah, that was the most surprising thing on there. If they're afraid of the changes they may make to the rogue setting off the community at this point, listening to some of the feedback on the cleric would be great.

Hell, maybe I can even champion some of my own preferred changes to the wizard once they get to the Aracnist.

 

[I'm A Banana]

There's a lot of stuff, but I kind of wonder how much of it is one-off "400 ISSUES CELEBRATION!" stuff.

I mean, that's awesome and all. Definitely interesting content. But I kind of expect this to be "bigger and badder" than we'll get for #401-499, y'know?

Anyway, this issue looks to have some very interesting things...

 

[Zaukrie]

Those are some of the most memorable articles from the past. Let's hope they do them justice this month.

Looking forward to the content....

 

[Aegeri]

I really hope they keep the monster updates coming. Wights and Ghosts would be a good place to start with. I'd love to see them make Abominations non-crap, starting with the Tarrasque while they are at it.

 

[Nemesis Destiny]

I really hope they keep the monster updates coming. Wights and Ghosts would be a good place to start with. I'd love to see them make Abominations non-crap, starting with the Tarrasque while they are at it.

That's a shame about the Tarrasque. I've always wanted to use one, and I thought up a really cool idea for a 1-30 arc borrowing heavily from Dark Sun, and tying into the mythology and history of my campaign world, but if the Tarrasque, which was to be my capstone, sucks, then I'll have to fix it, find a way to make the fight still work or wait for it to be fixed.

 

[Aegeri]

The Tarrasque, like most high level MM solos is worthless. Too little damage, hardly any significant actions, no resistance to status effects, is a big bag of HP/defenses and is a brute (so has laughable attack bonuses). Also throw on crappy power design and you have one very sad little solo. I want to see it redone because the concept of the Tarrasque with the current teeth of a MV solo has a ton of potential.

I mean if Rodney Thompson gets the Tarrasque the result would be amazing. Check out the level 30 solo stat block he did in Kalidnay. It's a thing of terrifying beauty. If he gets his hands on the Tarrasque we'd be in for something special I feel.

 

[Nemesis Destiny]

The Tarrasque, like most high level MM solos is worthless. Too little damage, hardly any significant actions, no resistance to status effects, is a big bag of HP/defenses and is a brute (so has laughable attack bonuses). Also throw on crappy power design and you have one very sad little solo. I want to see it redone because the concept of the Tarrasque with the current teeth of a MV solo has a ton of potential.

I mean if Rodney Thompson gets the Tarrasque the result would be amazing. Check out the level 30 solo stat block he did in Kalidnay. It's a thing of terrifying beauty. If he gets his hands on the Tarrasque we'd be in for something special I feel.

Ill keep my fingers crossed then

 

[Shroomy]

The Tarrasque, like most high level MM solos is worthless. Too little damage, hardly any significant actions, no resistance to status effects, is a big bag of HP/defenses and is a brute (so has laughable attack bonuses). Also throw on crappy power design and you have one very sad little solo. I want to see it redone because the concept of the Tarrasque with the current teeth of a MV solo has a ton of potential.

I mean if Rodney Thompson gets the Tarrasque the result would be amazing. Check out the level 30 solo stat block he did in Kalidnay. It's a thing of terrifying beauty. If he gets his hands on the Tarrasque we'd be in for something special I feel.

Here's another vote for updating the abominations. Updating a lot of the epic MM monsters would be a good thing.

 

[Mentat55]

I called it!

http://www.enworld.org/forum/4e-discussion/305499-something-special-issue-400-a.html

I agree, all the abominations could use a serious boost. The astral stalker, atropal, phane, and tarrasque are flavor-wise pretty awesome, but the early MM1 design really kills them. The blood fiend is kinda boring, but it could be made into something cool if updated.