Frostburn Gallery Posted

[Dark Psion]

Now there are 10 reasons to buy Frostburn!

10: Yuki-On-Na (The Snow Maiden)
9: An Ice Genie,the Qorrashi
8: Ice Weird Elemental
7: Yeti
6: The Entomed (Undead frozen in Ice)
5: Polar Mariner PrC (Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger)
4: Brumal Stiffening (Oh, was that your sword?)
3: Cryokinetic (Please don't be a frozen version of the Pyro )
2: Blue Ice (I don't know what it is, but damn does it look good!)
1: The return of the Uldra (From Way back in Dragon Magazine)

 

[Megatron]

After seeing this, I just might buy it.

/me loves Ice wizards

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Once again WOTC steals my ideas. Dag you for stealing the qokogaq (dire polar bear) from me! Dag you!

 

[WingOver]

The Frostburn gallery looks to be alright. A distressing number of Crabapple pieces, but they're not so bad, considering some of his track record.

I agree. In fact I was impressed with some of his holy symbols and the "crystal tear" pic. Looks simple but imaginative. I like how the snowballs are rolling down hill.

 

[coyote6]

When did dire animals develop spikes and bony protrusions? The dire wolf miniature from Giants of Legends has those spikes, and so does the picture of the dire polar bear.

There's nothing in the Monster Manual about dire animals being a bad X-Men character's bastard offspring; the MM says, "Dire animals are larger, tougher, meaner versions of ordinary animals. Each kind tends to have a feral, prehistoric, or even demonic appearance." Bony plates and spikes don't strike me as particularly feral, prehistoric, or even demonic; nor do they look tougher or meaner.

It looks . . . dumb.

Weird.

 

[demiurge1138]

When did dire animals develop spikes and bony protrusions? The dire wolf miniature from Giants of Legends has those spikes, and so does the picture of the dire polar bear.

There's nothing in the Monster Manual about dire animals being a bad X-Men character's bastard offspring; the MM says, "Dire animals are larger, tougher, meaner versions of ordinary animals. Each kind tends to have a feral, prehistoric, or even demonic appearance." Bony plates and spikes don't strike me as particularly feral, prehistoric, or even demonic; nor do they look tougher or meaner.

The spikey dire animals result from three sources.

1) The dire bear illustration in the MM. Note the bony plates under the eyes.

2) Dire animals have highter natural ACs then their mundane counterparts. And there's only so much you can do with fur.

3) The people writing the 3.5 descriptive text (where the spikeyness really started to blossom) liked Brotherhood of the Wolf.

Oh, and the real zeuglodon was even freakier. The illustration in Frostburn is too "cute". No, really. That one has a wide lower lip, so it looks like a humpback on acid. And it's too squat. The real zeuglodons were the cetacean equivalent of eels, up to seventy feet long, with great jaws rimmed with oddly serrated teeth.

Sorry. Paleontology enthusiast ranting. Never mind me...

Demiurge out.

 

[AFGNCAAP]

This book will be a must-buy for me: interesting material, but the Frost Mage PrC has my interest (plus, my g/f's current PC is an arcane spellcaster who focuses on cold spells, & likes it when the PCs adventure in cold climes & all that--she's REALLY gonna want this book).

 

[Mouseferatu]

That one has a wide lower lip...

Does it? It looked to me like the creature was twisting around while swimming, so that it's lower lip is actually on top. Am I seeing it wrong? It looks much better my way, IMO...

 

[Mouseferatu]

Looking at it again, I think Demiurge is right and I'm wrong.

It's a shame; I thought it was so much scarier the other way.

It's still fairly creepy, I think. Just not as much.

 

[Krieg]

I was hoping for some info on everybody's favorite bandy-legged demon lord; Kostchitchie!!

Greatest DRAGON cover ever!