Malebranche now a demon

[Gloombunny]

I thought they were supposed to not look human-like, not that they're not supposed to have two arms, two legs, and a head.

 

[Lurks-no-More]

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.

Sigh, why? You still have horned devils, aka cornugons, after all.

Edit: Also, there are still concept art; the eventual illustrations may well be quite different.

 

[Wolfspider]

That troglodyte stinks!

 

[Henrix]

In the original context, the Design article about monsters, the picture is called 20070924_drdd_wardev.jpg
So pobably a typo. The picture also matches their descriptions of typical devils.

 

[WyzardWhately]

I like the human fighter. Dude looks pretty rag-tag. I'm not a fan of the new look for the dryad - I was fond of having occasional cheesecake in the MM for no good reason. That elf's stance looks kind of off to me.

 

[Wormwood]

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.

The omelette smells delicious so far, so I'm not really concerned about some broken eggs.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I see they removed that, ah...dubious glow from Blackrazor.

 

[Wormwood]

I see they removed that, ah...dubious glow from Blackrazor.

Like I'm the only one who saved a copy of the original.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

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.

The dragon bothers me, as most dragons do, because the wing physiology is so wonky. While I understand that if we want to have flying dragons, we have to put up with a bit of suspension of disbelief--things that big aren't going to fly worth a damn--I would just, for once, like to see someone depict a dragon with at least passingly believable flight muscles inserted at the mechanically appropriate location. This dragon looks like it could wiggle its wings a bit, but not much more.

 

[Doug McCrae]

They've ruined D&D!

Also, if orcs don't have pig snouts it's not D&D. Tolkienesque bollocks!