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[kenobi65]

While we wait for the official magazine preview, here is the previews data they sent out a few months ago:

The Savage Tide Adventure Path surges forward in “City of Broken Idols,” a foray into the center of the infamous Isle of Dread. “Vile Addiction,” the first installment of the new “Servants of Sahan” three-part campaign arc, leads the PCs into the vices of the Far Realm. A Backdrop for Exag: City of Clay supports the new series. “The Distraction” puts the PCs behind the enemy lines of a gnoll army. All this, plus Dungeoncraft, Downer, and Mt. Zogon!

Got mine on Saturday.

Here's the entire preview section:

The Distraction, by Tim Hitchcock

A band of settlers awaits certain death upon the vicious blades of massing gnoll hordes. Can the PCs distract the ravenous army long enough for reinforcements to arrive? A D&D adventure for 3rd-level characters.

Vile Addiction, by Stefan Happ, Stephen S. Greer, B. Matthew Conklin III, Tom Ganz, and Ashavan Doyon

A horrific drug has seized the population of the strange city of Exag, yet confronting its source only reveals the true extent of a dire new threat. Part one of the three-part Seeds of Sehan Campaign Arc, this is a D&D adventure for 8th-level characters.

Backdrop: Exag, by Stefan Happ, Stephen S. Greer, B. Matthew Conklin III, Tom Ganz, and Ashavan Doyon

Explore the ancient streets of Exag, a secluded city whose secrets and mysteries are among the oldest in history.

City of Broken Idols, by Tito Leati

The central mesa of the Isle of Dread is taboo to the locals, a place shrouded in mystery and cloaked in rumor. The time has come to confront what dwells atop the island's savage crown. A Savage Tide Adventure Path scenario for 13th-level characters.

 

[BOZ]

Trust me...there's no way you could fit all the altraloths in an article with the other yugoloths. You'd be hard-pressed to even fit them all into a single article on their own.

seriously. what are there, like 10?

 

[Shemeska]

seriously. what are there, like 10?

7 of them: Anthraxus, Bubonix, Cholerix, Charon, Typhus, Taba, and Xenghara.

But it'd be heck to try to squeeze them all into a single article and do justice to them all. Much better to pick one or two to go wild on, and give a summary for the others IMO.

 

[BOZ]

yeah, too true. not sure how they managed it in 2E!

well, if we're seeing updated yugoloths, maybe an article on their lords is not too much to hope for...

 

[Alzrius]

Even the original "Pox of the Planes" article only had stats for six of them, with Cholerix receiving merely a brief mention in Bubonix's entry.

 

[BOZ]

good point. and then there's diptherius (only mentioned in MM2 so far), and possibly other unnamed ones!

of course, there are no where near as many as demon lords or the whole of the devilish nobility and lords of the nine...

 

[Shade]

Nope; generally, if we do a Critical Threat, we won't do a Wandering Monster. There's plenty of new/updated monsters in the issue though. Aside from the updated arcanaloth and modron, there's the non-epic version of the brain collecter (which also first appeared way back in X2: Castle Amber), and the all-new bilewretch of Holashner.

I finally got mine. I haven't had a chance to spend much time with it, but from a brief skim, these all look fantastic. The bilewretch is really pushing the envelope. Nice!

 

[Nightfall]

*likes things that push the envelop.* I really need to order this.