Malebranche now a demon

[Sammael]

If the gallery captions are correct, malebranche (old name for horned devil/cornugon, later resurrected in 3E as a separate type of devil) is now a demon.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4art/20071116a

Sigh.

 

[Epic Meepo]

Apparently, you're right. Of course, the succubus is now a devil; archons now look surprisingly like elemental creatures; and the Abyss is now an inner plane. To say nothing about all those melee-happy bards who broke into the armory, did some push-ups, and became warlords. So I guess we shouldn't really be surprised.

 

[Nifft]

They never showed up in my game, so it's not going to rock my setting particularly.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Monkey Boy]

could just be a typo.

 

[Gloombunny]

They're trying to make demons and devils distinct from each other in ways more meaningful than an alignment tag. This is inevitably going to involve moving some of them from one category to the other. It's worth it, IMO.

 

[Simia Saturnalia]

It kind of strikes me as a typo as well, given that it otherwise fits the devil requirements (roughly humanoid, uses weapons).

I'm curious why the completely remade Troglodyte isn't raising more of a kerfuffle, though. Not that anybody seemed too offended when kobolds changed with every new edition...

 

[Sammael]

I thought about commenting about the troglodyte on steroids, but decided not to.

 

[Drowbane]

I'm not digging those Dragons...

 

[Simia Saturnalia]

I actually kind of like the green dragon concept art. Looks very...aerial predator to me. The old dragons looked like they flew because "Dragons fly!", while the new green seems somehow sleeker, born to whip between treetops at full flight while pursuing prey. EDIT: Just got a look at the colored ones, too. I likes.

Hell, I like the trogs too. Harder to cast them as kind of desperate slaves to their hunger when they're built like a brick privy, but I'll make do.

 

[Fieari]

I thought the demons were supposed to be non-humanoid?