Dungeonscape art gallery is up. Notably the return of the rotgrub!

[Shemeska]

I did not have much room in the book for monsters (and a couple got cut),

Are you allowed to tell us what got cut?

 

[D.Shaffer]

Mmm. Rot grubs.

Nice collection of art. I like the old school references.

 

[|)ar|{]

Looking through the pics I have to say the art looks pretty decent. Its not the Eberron Art but as ussual its way better than the forgotten realms crap. Pretty solid.

I'm kinda surprised we haven't had any leaks about either of the books yet. Amazon must be slipping this month and accually sending out their books at the right time. Either that or its a late release month. You gotta love it when they say its a March release and they come out March 31.
Not that this is a "I can't wait" month. Both look decent but the only thing I'm really looking forward to are some of the new feats in SoS and the new base class in DS. I don't think we really need more new base classes but with casters generally high power level and ToB giving fightery types a new boost I'm looking for anything to help out the poor trapmonkey role.

 

[Qualidar]

Looks like she got the shaft.

LOL!

I love the art in this book.

~Qualidar~

 

[Qualidar]

At least anyone seeing these will not think that 3e players will interpret these pictures to mean that they are invincible.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

 

[Desdichado]

I must be missing something. What makes the rot grubs so exciting? I mean, they're entertaining enough, but so are plenty of other hazards.

Was there some famous module that I didn't play that utilizes them to great effect or something?

 

[frankthedm]

Was there some famous module that I didn't play that utilizes them to great effect or something?

No. They were just a hazard of dungeon delving. Touch the wrong rotting corpse and bam, a few moments later you might realize there are maggots burrowing into you. If you don't catch them quick enough you die in 10 to 30 minutes.

Rot Grub
These maggot-like creatures live in refuse. If they touch exposed skin (they have a percentage chance to do this equal to the victim's AC, not counting shield), they burrow into the flesh and secrete a mild poison that deadens the burrowing area; a victim must make a successful Wisdom check to notice the burrowing; one check is allowed each round. Fire kills 2d10 grubs per application to infested flesh, but after 1d6 rounds they are too deep to be burned. A cure disease will kill the rot grubs. If the worms are not stopped, they reach the heart in 1d3 turns, killing the victim.

 

[Anti-Sean]

I must be missing something. What makes the rot grubs so exciting? I mean, they're entertaining enough, but so are plenty of other hazards.

It's closing in on twenty years since I first saw it, but the illustration from the 1E MM still skeeves me the hell out whenever I think about it.

The fact that they were a favorite toy of the DM I played with in high school doesn't help any.

--still won't put his ear to a door for fear of ear seekers Spikey

 

[AuraSeer]

The most undignified character death returns with a vengence!

The most undignified death? Rot grubs are definitely high on the list, but I always had a soft spot preference for the ear seeker. Do we know if this book has those too?

"Shh, I think I hear something.... ew! Ew ew ick OW oh god it's eating my brain!"

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I gotta agree: Bugs in the ear from listening at a door is a really undignified death. (And a rather clumsy way to penalize someone for listening at doors.)