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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 3812018" data-attributes="member: 48965">But, that's sort of my point...this article in no way ramped me up for an online Dragon mag.  The point of the ecology articles has always been fluff...if I'm changing it then what's the point?I meant sympathetic in this way (not cry for you sympathetic but understandable sympathetic)...but I think you explained it better than I did in my original post.So again I ask, and this is really pertinent when the mag starts costing money, why am I paying for an ecologies article I would change everything in.  I guess I just feel that this representation of the Deathknight is very trite and cliched.  Someone who wants power and does a nasty ritual to become an undead immortal.  I'm sorry, what's the difference between a Deathknight and a Liche again?  Oh yeah, one uses a sword and one uses magic.  The ecologies I'm used to in the print magazine, on the average, just seem to go deeper than this one.  The two articles on the Deathknight in Dragon 290 & 291 made me want to use one in my campaign NOW(another really good example was the one on the Shadar-kai)...this article makes me feel kind of meh about them.NOTE: The article in the print mag also gave a template(not sure if it's an alternate one), that didn't have all these spellcasting abilities everyone's talking about.  He had an abyssal blast 1/day and a touch attack(negative energy) as his only magical-like abilities.  Everything else was already straight up melee focused.</blockquote>

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