Excerpt from the D&D Miniatures Handbook up at the WoTC site

[F5]

I'd say the most interesting thing about the preview, to me anyway, is the Marshal. Pretty cool class, I can definitely see where it would be useful, but it fills a very similar niche to the bard, only without spells. I have to wonder how much fun a Marshal would be to play. Granting a +2 to all your allies' hit rolls is great, but not as immediately gratifying as, say, raining holy fire down upon the heads of infidels. Not to say I wouldn't like to try it out...there's a lot of good role playing hooks to the class. I'm just curious to see how it plays out.

Also, does anyone else think the class is a bit front-loaded? Take 2 levels of Marshal and you've got the Lesser and Greater aura ability, usable all day, then multiclass into just about anything, and you have a potent power. Could the Marshal be the new Ranger? Maybe, but in order to make use of the ability, you need a decent charisma, everyones' favorite dump-stat. Again, I'm curious as to how this plays out.

The monsters...eh. The Aspect of Hexor could be fun for some summoner-type characters to play with. But nothing spectacular.

I'm curious enough to take a look at the Miniatures Handbook. I'll let y'all know if I'm interested enough to buy the sucker when it actually comes out.

And I'll second the request for anyone who's seen Cry Havoc to compare and contrast what we;ve seen of the MinHB so far.

 

[Green Knight]

A couple of quick notes.

1) Any mods or admins reading this post? If so, you may want to update the front page of the website. THIS is the cover of the D&D Miniatures Handbook, not this thing with Drizzt.

Speaking of Drizzt (And going a bit off-topic, as this isn't related to the Handbook)...

2) The Archfiends Expansion Pack will start selling figures which include Forgotten Realms specific miniatures. One of whom will be Drizzt. Check out who's on the cover of the third Expansion Pack to the left.

http://www.geocities.com/merricb/archfiends.jpg

So if you're the type who's always hated Drizzt, then you'll soon have the opportunity to kill him over, and over, and over, again.

 

[Piratecat]

Meta note: Green Knight, your sig picture is about four times larger than it ought to be! Please shrink it or remove it. In addition, it's usually considered polite to only show a picture sig once per thread.

Thanks, and email me if you have any questions.

 

[Joseph Elric Smith]

You can click the link, below, to see it.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ex/20030906a

They've got the following, there:

• Marshal (New Core Class)
• Dragon Samurai (New Prestige Class)
• Aspect of Hextor (New Monster)
• Nothic (New Monster)
• Sudden Empower [Metamagic] (New Feat)
• Invisibility, Swift (New Spell)

I'm particularly fond of the Marshal class and the Dragon Warrior Prestige Class, myself.

thanks for the link and info I am really looking forward to this book
Ken