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

[Shemeska]

Out of curiousity, is Takhisis mentioned anywhere as one of the deities having a divine domain in Baator? If so she'd be on Avernus.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Sounds interesting. Too bad though there isn't a Demonomicon for the Arch-Devils. I'll have to buy this and the FC I for X-mas presents for myself.

 

[Shade]

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.

I think I'm in the majority on this one, but I actually like the malebranche as a separate devil from the cornugon. I'd like to think that it wasn't a case of confusion, but more one of "hey, that was a cool sounding name for a devil, why not give it another go?"

 

[Shemeska]

I think I'm in the majority on this one, but I actually like the malebranche as a separate devil from the cornugon. I'd like to think that it wasn't a case of confusion, but more one of "hey, that was a cool sounding name for a devil, why not give it another go?"

Oh certainly. Even if a cool idea originates from a goof or a mistake, it's still a cool idea (and it might have been an intentional thing, who knows). I like the 3e MMII malebranche, and it stands on its own as a seperate baatezu caste, both thematically and in terms of utility in a game.

I've used them quite a bit (when my PCs made the mistake of getting on the bad side of Corin and his particular Ministry).

 

[Shade]

Speaking of goofs, I noticed I said I was in the majority, when I meant minority.

I advanced one to 42 HD as a guardian for a particularly powerful pit fiend's citadel. It nearly decimated the party, who was actually right on target for its CR at the time. Good times.

 

[Ripzerai]

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.

I think it was deliberate, actually. "Malebranche" was a perfectly good name that was going unused (because cornugons were just cornugons), so they invented a new caste to fit it.

I like the 3e malebranche, and I'm quite satisfied with the compromise.

 

[dargoth3]

WOTC have posted the ToC up on the Website

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ex/20061201a

Anyone know what a Hellbred is?

Sounds like some sort of Planetouched (Going purely off the name)

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

WOTC have posted the ToC up on the Website

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ex/20061201a

Anyone know what a Hellbred is?

Sounds like some sort of Planetouched (Going purely off the name)

Morbiczer described it earlier:

New Race: Hellbred (When someone dies, and repents his sins in the moment of death, they can become helbred. They don't go to either Heaven or Hell. They fight against evil in Hell, and some will find final salvation and ascend to celestial planes, but most fail. The concept doesn't impress me much.)

 

[dargoth3]

Morbiczer described it earlier:

Ah thanks

Any idea what the Investiture spells do?

 

[Ripzerai]

I imagine they invest a character with qualities of the devil in the spell title.