Lords of Madness Stuff (Update: Some folks have it!)

[Psion]

Dang! I thought DMH was poking a bit of fun at Kobold Avenger by listing silly monsters and non-existent templates like "non-euclidian", and now you're saying it was serious? There is a "non-euclidian" template?

Book of Templates (not Advanced Bestiary) has a "non-Euclidean" template.

 

[Darkness]

Heh. Caved in and got LoM today. Sweet book.

 

[BOZ]

There is a "non-euclidian" template?

not that i noticed.

 

[DMH]

Nagas are covered in quite a bit of detail in Serpent Kingdoms. Shame about the others, especially ixitxachitls!

For the Realms- the 3 original nagas are my favorite aberrations after the aboleth and I was hoping for a more generic look at their social lives. I really don't want to buy a book that I would only be interested in 1/5th or less of it (which it seems after looking at the TOC).

I am suprised about the absence of cloakers as they seem fairly popular and are so alien many people have no idea what to do with them (other than combat encounters). I would also like to have seen their real name used again.

Trivia time- what is the real name of the cloaker and where can you find it?

 

[The Shaman]

Strictly a D&D book?
I always wanted to see how beholders would cross over as a D20 Modern/future race of really unpleasant aliens...

I haven't seen the book yet, but I was thinking of something similar: an "agents-of-PSI" type game of brain suckers at large...

 

[Haffrung Helleyes]

Lords of Madness

I got this this weekend...and I think it's really well done. It's a nice companion book to Libris Mortis. I especially like the new backstory for the Mind Flayers, and the Abberant feats. One nice thing about the Aberrant feats is that they have a mechanic where the more you have, the more power you get. That's good...people who are aberrant need an incentive to go down that slippery slope.

Ken

 

[James Jacobs]

Nagas are covered in quite a bit of detail in Serpent Kingdoms. Shame about the others, especially ixitxachitls!

Cheers
Richard

Alas... there just wasn't enough room in the book to give the same amount of love to all the aberrations. I, for one, would have loved to do a chapter on the avolakia or the cloaker or the ixitxachitl or even the ettercap, but there were only a half dozen chapters to go around. We decided to focus on the empire-building and mind-controlling aberrations as a result, which helped to thin the ranks a bit.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Alas... there just wasn't enough room in the book to give the same amount of love to all the aberrations. I, for one, would have loved to do a chapter on the avolakia or the cloaker or the ixitxachitl or even the ettercap, but there were only a half dozen chapters to go around. We decided to focus on the empire-building and mind-controlling aberrations as a result, which helped to thin the ranks a bit.

That's fine. It just leaves room for a second book of aberrations, focusing on the less organized critters. WotC could call it Scions of Madness, or something.

(Now, to find a freelancer interested in working on it... )

 

[Gez]

Sadly, Kaorti and Ethergaunt didn't make the cut either.

 

[Psion]

Sadly, Kaorti and Ethergaunt didn't make the cut either.

Kaorti are outsiders.