Frostburn Excerpt--Uldras are Enviro-Nut Fey Now!

[Incenjucar]

I actually like the little buggers. It's a +1LA fae, with flavorful but not uber abilities (frosty fingers and such), they get languages at a bard's rate no matter their class, cold resistance, both kinds of special vision, and their darkvision is fricking 120'...

Now, they're not supremely -exotic-, but that's actually a good thing. You could actually let them just be part of things without it looking like the Savage Species hit parade.

 

[WayneLigon]

So because they don't like cities and they protect the wildland creatures, they're 'environuts'? They're like every other intelligent creature that doesn't want the only habitat they can live in destroyed. How is that 'modern environmentalism'?

 

[Kesh]

I dunno. They seem quite interesting (I was going to say "cool," but restrained myself) to me. I like that preview.

Hey, why is the snow goblin +1 ECL? That looks like a +0 to me, but I'm not very experienced at gauging such things.

Probably the same reason why Blues are +1 ECL too. I guess the designers thought any goblin was borderline, so any bonus gets it bumped up.

 

[Testament]

Well, Gez beat me to the punch here. Uldra are finally back to what they should be.

Virgil, please explain to me how the Uldra display "modern environmentalism". Heck, explain what this "modern environmentalism" is in the first place! I think WayneLigon said it best, how does protecting the only environment in which they can survive make them 'environuts'?

 

[VirgilCaine]

So because they don't like cities and they protect the wildland creatures, they're 'environuts'? They're like every other intelligent creature that doesn't want the only habitat they can live in destroyed. How is that 'modern environmentalism'?

Who says thats the only place they can live? Don't remember anything about fey being tied to one terrain.

They find domesticated animals to be depressing and enraging, and often stage midnight raids on villages to "rescue" cows, dogs, and other domesticated animals by kidnapping them and helping them to return to their wild roots

Sound familiar?

I shouldn't have said anything (on this board, at least) about it--the no politics, thing you know. Sorry about that mods.

At any rate, it's only flavor text.

 

[Alzrius]

Honestly, I liked this preview, but only because it seemed to offer something of an update of the uldra as they were presented way back in Dragon...mostly in terms of their pantheon's development. It's not a perfect match, but it seems at least they're trying, and that counts for something to me.

 

[Alzrius]

not me, my place of employment. i forgot that most of you are able to follow links to WotC's site.

BOZ, at least you can get here. My current place of employment has us sitting at computers all day, and has blocked off everything except the company intranet and homepage. We have a single computer in the breakroom, old and with dated software, to use for web-surfing.

 

[BOZ]

ack - yeah, that is a shame. :\

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

BOZ, at least you can get here. My current place of employment has us sitting at computers all day, and has blocked off everything except the company intranet and homepage. We have a single computer in the breakroom, old and with dated software, to use for web-surfing.

Wow, that sounds just like Cigna, where I temped more than once. The sad thing is that they wouldn't spring for new medical books for the nurses doing claims appeals evaluations, and the nurses couldn't get onto the Web to look info up, either. (And they wasted just as much time e-mailing jokes around as they would fooling around on the Web anyway.)

Always fascinated when companies think that restricting employees down to the bare necessities (or beyond) don't think the corresponding morale hit won't hurt productivity just as much, or worse, than letting them actually, you know, check Mapquest or order a gift from Amazon, etc.