Fiendish Codex II next month--Any scoop/rumors/etc.?

[Ripzerai]

No, only things like Pearza is obsessed with magic and interested in Mephistopheles' hellfire or that Baalzephon is the only surviving founding member of the Dark Eight, all other are replacements or replacments of replacements of replacements...

Better than nothing. In 2e, Furcas was also an original member of the Eight. Has he recently died?

Malebranche CR14 (I hope this is a new monster, at least google doesn't seem to know it)

No, it originally appeared in the 3.0 Monster Manual II.

 

[Ripzerai]

Damn, okay, if someone can tell me which monster is new (see the list of monsters I posted earlier), I'll write about it then.

These are new:

Assassin Devil (Dogai) - CR 11 - Skilled killers.
Ayperobos Swarm - CR 12 - A swarm of Diminutive devils.
Harvester Devil (Falxugon) - CR 7 - Seductive schemers.
Hellfire Engine - CR 19 - Artillery used in the Blood War.
Kalabon - CR 1/2 - Devils spawned from the carcass of the Hag Countess.
Legion Devil (merregon) - CR 3 - Hell's weakest food soldiers.
Orthon - CR 8 - Foot soldiers in Hell's armies.
Pain Devil (Excruciarch) - CR 7 - Diabolical torturers.
Steel Devil (Bueroza) - CR 6 - Soldier in the Blood War.
Worm of Minauros
Hell Louse

 

[Wycen]

Malebranche is also the 1E horned devil (evil branche).

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Indeed, but they would have been mentioned in the contents, right?

The two extra feats at the back of Complete Arcane weren't mentioned anywhere else in the book. WotC has a history of slipping in content like this.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Devil's Favor (An "entry feat" to all other devil-touched feats. It gives a small bonus (+2 on an attack, save, or check), which you can use a number of times per day equal to the devil-touched feats you have.)

Hmmm. I can see the argument for doing it this way, but I wish these feats had worked off the devil feat from BoVD. I can see wanting to create characters that have a BoVD prestige class and also these feats, but will have that particular Vile feat taking up a slot.

Still, it wouldn't be a big change to replace one feat with the other.

 

[Shemeska]

Malebranche is also the 1E horned devil (evil branche).

The 1e horned devil is the 2e/3e Cornugon.

 

[Wycen]

The 1e horned devil is the 2e/3e Cornugon.

Yes and this fact irks me. The FC 2 would have been the perfect place to explain the connection or "confusion" between malebranche-horned devil-cornugon, but I doubt it did. And it's probably only important to those of us who post in this thread

 

[Shemeska]

Yes and this fact irks me. The FC 2 would have been the perfect place to explain the connection or "confusion" between malebranche-horned devil-cornugon, but I doubt it did. And it's probably only important to those of us who post in this thread

I'm guessing that whoever wrote the malebranche for the 3e MMII must have remembered the Horned Devil (subtitled Malebranche as an alternate name) back in 1e, but not known that it was renamed the Cornugon in 2e and had already appeared under that name in the 3e MM already.

 

[dargoth3]

Morbiczer


Is there any mention of the Mystra's (Forgotten realms goddess of magic) incursion into the 1st lay of hell or the death of several "Arch devil children" in FC2?

 

[morbiczer]

Morbiczer


Is there any mention of the Mystra's (Forgotten realms goddess of magic) incursion into the 1st lay of hell or the death of several "Arch devil children" in FC2?

I don't have the book here (I'm at work) but I'm sure there is no Mystra and I can't remmber any dead archdevil children.