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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6053163" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 299: September 2002part 4/10The bestiary: Having just done a greyhawk article, here's a forgotten realms one. Some new monsters that plague cormyr in particular. In contrast to the last few, the preamble is quite short though, and they seem like they're easily transferable elsewhere. Guess it's another attempt to both have their cake and eat it. Blood horses are another creepy mount for evil overlords to look imposing upon, with bat wings and glowing red eyes. They drink blood and have a damaging screech. Evil overlords know what they like, and this seems tailor made for them. No wonder they go for a pretty penny on the open market. Catoblepas ought to be familiar to you. They were on the official books for both 1st and 2nd ed, and the second monster to get an ecology waaaay back in issue 73. Course, since their original incarnation involved a no save instadeath gaze, it's not surprising that they weren't updated, and this new version has been substantially nerfed. Still, they didn't need to turn it into a lame ray attack with a physical manifestation as well as the obligatory save adding. Weak. Still, at least they remembered the death cheese. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Glamer are creatures that burst from the body of Leira after her death. Like most godspawn, they bear a definite similarly to their creator in powers and personality. Whether they have any purpose beyond generic trickery, like say, bringing the goddess back to life or getting revenge for her death is uncertain. Shadovig are tiny obnoxious fey, likely more tricksters, but also willing to get serious and poison you in your sleep. Since they also have sneak attack and invisibility, they certainly aren't useless in combat either. Tree Trolls read like a shout-out to the version of trolls found in Wormy. Considerably smaller than regular trolls, they still regenerate, and are good at climbing and grappling. Interesting business. Veserab are another creepy eyeless flying thing with a huge mouth. Didn't think Yrthaks would have competition, did you. They make rather disturbing mounts, so they are once again quite good for your evil troops, and you can get lots of money for young ones. Looks like after the conscious attempt to do new and different stuff of the first couple of years of 3e, they're starting to become more comfortable with drawing inspiration from old stuff and updating it again. Probably a good idea, if they want to draw in holdouts. We shall see how this progresses, as with all the previous trends.</blockquote>

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