D&D 4E manual of the planes 4e

[yipwyg42]

Please tell me the creature on the cover of the book is actually in the book.

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[LordArchaon]

Please tell me the creature on the cover of the book is actually in the book.

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I would bet it, cause it's a classic: Astral Dreadnought. It's on the 3.0 Manual of the Planes and also on the 3.0 Psionics Handbook if I remember correctly:
Astral Dreadnought in Manual of the Planes Art Gallery
I don't know much about previous editions, but I bet that it comes from 2e Planescape...

 

[Mouseferatu]

I don't know much about previous editions, but I bet that it comes from 2e Planescape...

Nope. Because it's also on the cover of the 1E MotP.

 

[Atlatl Jones]

I would bet it, cause it's a classic: Astral Dreadnought. It's on the 3.0 Manual of the Planes and also on the 3.0 Psionics Handbook if I remember correctly:
Astral Dreadnought in Manual of the Planes Art Gallery
I don't know much about previous editions, but I bet that it comes from 2e Planescape...

It was on the cover of the 1e Manual of the Planes. The 4e cover is an homage to it.

 

[Soel]

I like Tony D's version of the Dreadnought from Planescape Monstrous Supplement 2, but I am actually jazzed for this book, as opposed to the 3e version, which I never bothered with (as well as the Planar Handbook, just left it on the shelves.)

 

[Echohawk]

Nope. Because it's also on the cover of the 1E MotP.

Obscure monster trivia: Curiously, that creature was called an "ethereal dreadnought" in the 1st Edition Manual of the Planes (see the first Illusions/Phantasms example on p19). It only became known as an astral dreadnought with the publication of the 1991 AD&D trading cards, where it was merely a large creature. It reappeared as the astral dreadnought in the Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix II and again in the 3rd Edition Manual of the Planes).

 

[Klaus]

Nope. Because it's also on the cover of the 1E MotP.

And that cover rocks a fair ammount, I reckon.

 

[Steely Dan]

And that cover rocks a fair ammount, I reckon.

Yep, my buddy bought the book back in 1987 simply because of the cover (I don't think he ever actually read it).

I originally thought it was the Astral plane itself taken a form to attack the poor schmuck on the cover.

 

[Mercule]

Obscure monster trivia: Curiously, that creature was called an "ethereal dreadnought" in the 1st Edition Manual of the Planes

Then I'm not insane. I recognized it as an ethereal dreadnought, but everyone else was calling it astral. Of course, I did the 1E MotP and skipped Planescape and all the planar lore that is descended from it.

 

[Nikosandros]

It was on the cover of the 1e Manual of the Planes. The 4e cover is an homage to it.

It was on the cover, but IIRC there's only a passing mention of it and no stats in that book.