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

[Tinker Gnome]

True enough, but the bizarre part is that it contradicts the specifically Dragonlance material from 1st edition. They're not required to be consistent with Planescape, Spelljammer, or Ravenloft, but you'd think they'd be consistent at least with stuff from their own setting.

Welcome to Dragonlance my friend.

Newer material also overrides older material, so he is NE. A much more fitting alignment IMO, if you have read the Dark Disciple series you will know what I mean.

 

[Cam Banks]

Welcome to Dragonlance my friend.

Newer material also overrides older material, so he is NE. A much more fitting alignment IMO, if you have read the Dark Disciple series you will know what I mean.

Right.

We changed a number of the alignments from their 1e/2e representations for 3e.

Sirrion is now CN, was N
Shinare is LN, was N
Lunitari is LN, was N
Chemosh is NE, was LE
Mishakal is NG, was LG
Branchala is CG, was NG
Majere is LG, was NG

Stuff like that.

If Dragonlance is the only setting that now contradicts its 1st or 2nd edition edition, I will be incredibly surprised.

Cheers,
Cam

 

[Tarril Wolfeye]

About the Kocrachon:

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/FC2_Gallery/101491.jpg

(from FCII Gallery)

Is this in the book?

 

[morbiczer]

About the Kocrachon:

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/FC2_Gallery/101491.jpg

(from FCII Gallery)

Is this in the book?

No, it isn't in my copy. And I don't recognize some of the other pictures either. I'd say that the gallery includes pictures for stuff which was cut from the book.

 

[BOZ]

cross-posted from the WotC boards, which i got to first:

In my sections, I looked at a lot of materials, including the 1st edition Monster Manuals and Manual of the Planes, the Ed Greenwood articles in Dragon Magazine, Faces of the Fiends, Planes of Law and the rest of the Planescape setting sourcebooks, as well as the current materials that cover the Hells.

YAY!!!!!!!!!

One thing that we did not cover were the Ancient Baatorians. At some level, we assumed that the baatezu eliminated rival elements to reinforce their monolithic control of the Nine Hells. Through misinformation and propaganda, anything other than the baatezu has been relegated to something lesser. It doesn't matter if it's true or not; it's true to the baatezu, and their word is law.

well, there, you have that...

 

[BOZ]

If Dragonlance is the only setting that now contradicts its 1st or 2nd edition edition, I will be incredibly surprised.

heh... QFT. point well taken.

 

[Nightfall]

*keeps to the fact that at least Cam writes good Dragonlance books*

Anyway I got FC II. Wasn't as impressed as I initially hoped but...eh. I consider this a decent purchase...and it wasn't my money anyway! *cheers for birthdays...sort of*

 

[BOZ]

LOL right on.

 

[Nightfall]

Boz,

Hey I always try to look on the bright side of something even when it's not as good as I had originally thought. Helps a good bit too with D&D purchases of late.

 

[Desdichado]

So... is this new ruler of Malboge something new for this book, or has it got roots somewhere that I'm not aware of?