Libris Mortis Monsters

[Shade]

The art gallery is up.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ag/20041008a

Looks like some interesting critters! When I first heard about this book, I was a bit skeptical of the monsters, since it seems that they've done every possible undead concept twice over, but they actually found a few niches that hadn't been touched yet. Best of all, the visage is back! As a huge fan of the Epic-Level Handbook, I'm thrilled to see the atropal scion.

Angel of Decay
Atropal Scion
Blaspheme
Bleakborn
Blood Amniote
Blood Mote Cloud
Bone Rat Swarm
Boneyard
Brain in a Jar
Carcass Eater
Cinderspawn
Corpse Rat Swarm
Crypt Chanter
Deathlock
Dessicator
Dire Maggot
Dream Vestige
Entomber
Entropic Reaper
Evolved Undead
Foresaken Shell
Mislabeled Voidwraith (probably ghoul template)
Grave Dirt Golem
Half-Vampire
Hooded Pupil, Ettin
Hulking Corpse
Murk
Necromental
Necropolitan
Plague Blight
Quell
Raiment
Revived Fossil, Megaraptor
Skin Kite
Skirr
Skulking Cyst
Slaughter Wight
Slaymate
Spectral Lyrist
Swarm-Shifter
Tomb Mote
Umbral Creature
Visage
Voidwraith
Wheep

 

[Mortis]

Oh well, another got to have book

Regards,
Mortis

 

[BOZ]

interesting... appears to be no conversions or reprintings unlike the draconomicon... i'll have to have a look at it.

 

[Shade]

The visage is a conversion, isn't it? (I could've sworn we just spend alot of time converting it. )

It looks like it will have some rehash, mostly templates from Savage Species (which I didn't list in the previous post). I know that the ghoul, mummy, and wight templates are in there.

Additionally, from the "10 Reasons Why a DM Should Get Libris Mortis" arcticle...

Variant Template Abilities for Undead: Ghosts, liches, skeletons, vampires, and zombies all get alternate sets of abilities to keep your book-memorizing players on their toes. For example, vicious skeletons gain mindless pleasure from disemboweling opponents with their oversized claws, psychic vampires attack Wisdom instead of Constitution, and hunter zombies track by scent.

 

[BOZ]

The visage is a conversion, isn't it? (I could've sworn we just spend alot of time converting it. )

d'oh! is that the same good ol' undead demon?

dang WotC, stealing everything we convert.

 

[Alzrius]

It's great to see that Orcus has his archetypal servants back! I wonder if they'll recognize their boss, what with the new look and taking back his old name and all.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Dream Vestige the same Vestige from Return to the Tomb of Horrors in The City That Waits? (The Vestige there was a powerful monster that made even Acererak shudder, so I hope that is it.)

 

[Knight Otu]

Looks like no Deathless.

Bone Rat Swarm
Corpse Rat Swarm

I wonder if those would be updates of the appropriate templates from the BoVD?

 

[VirgilCaine]

The art gallery is up.

Raiment

What kind of specials does this one have? I like the picture in the art gallery.

 

[BOZ]

It's great to see that Orcus has his archetypal servants back! I wonder if they'll recognize their boss, what with the new look and taking back his old name and all.

"Hey boss, you lost weight!"

 

[Shade]

It is indeed that visage.

According to another post, all the following are templates:

evolved undead
ghost brute
gravetouched ghoul
half-vampire
hooded pupil
mummifed creature
necropolitan
revived fossil
swarm-shifter
umbral creature