May and Beyond

[Rechan]

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (May and Beyond)

Eeee MM3! The art is great. I like the ghost beholder the most.

Dragon is going to have a Paladin article, and what looks like either info on assassin guilds, or a new Build.

Demonomicon: So, we get a bit of a list of what's in there: zarvax, mahataa, mane, abyssal scavengers, demon spawn, ixitxachitls, incubi, nabassus, and the dreaded wendigo. (Wendigo, demons? Nooo!) And the Demon Lords statted out are Anthraxus, Kostchtchie, Oublivae, Pazuzu, and Zuggtmoy. Pazuzu is the only one recognizable to me.

 

[ppaladin123]

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (May and Beyond)

Eeee MM3! The art is great. I like the ghost beholder the most.

Dragon is going to have a Paladin article, and what looks like either info on assassin guilds, or a new Build.

Demonomicon: So, we get a bit of a list of what's in there: zarvax, mahataa, mane, abyssal scavengers, demon spawn, ixitxachitls, incubi, nabassus, and the dreaded wendigo. (Wendigo, demons? Nooo!) And the Demon Lords statted out are Anthraxus, Kostchtchie, Oublivae, Pazuzu, and Zuggtmoy. Pazuzu is the only one recognizable to me.

They've been promising a new assassin build for a while. It looks like we are going to get it next month.

As for paladins....they need the love badly. Let's hope this isn't just three pages with a handful of crummy racial feats.

 

[Peraion Graufalke]

Is that Eclavdra in the drow priestess' picture? It's hinted that she'll be in MM3 alongside Lolth.

Also, yay for assassin support! There's a guild article coming this month that looks like it'll feature an assassin guild, btw.

 

[Cerebral Paladin]

I find it hilarious that one of the new demons is the incubus--not necessarily bad, but still funny. Succubi were always demons prior to 4e, and then there was the change of recategorizing them as devils, as part of the effort to draw more distinction between devils and demons. And then incubi, which are in folklore and to some extent prior editions of D&D (definitely in 3.x, possibly in others) the male equivalents of succubi (or perhaps succubi in male form), get added back as demons. So much for keeping a nice clear distinction.

Of course, the more important thing isn't keeping to the original 4e plan--it's are the incubi cool and useful monsters, and do they feel like 4e demons? I hope both are true.

 

[the Jester]

And the Demon Lords statted out are Anthraxus, Kostchtchie, Oublivae, Pazuzu, and Zuggtmoy. Pazuzu is the only one recognizable to me.

Anthraxus was the top daemon in 1e's MM2; Kostchichie or however you spell it is the frost giant demon lord that I think serves Fraz Urb'luu or something, also originally 1e MM2. Zuggtmoy is the demon queen of fungi, and appears in T1-4: The Temple of Elemental Evil.

Cool, I'm looking forward to all this!

 

[Nymrohd]

Anthraxus is statted? Oh boy some people will freak out on that.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Anthraxus is statted? Oh boy some people will freak out on that.

I'm interested in seeing how they do that without bringing back the daemons/yugoloths. I proposed an article on Anthraxus myself, some time back (not making him a demon lord, but something else entirely), and the declined. Now I know why.

 

[Vyvyan Basterd]

Anthraxus is statted? Oh boy some people will freak out on that.

Why? He was statted in the 1E MM2.

 

[MrMyth]

I find it hilarious that one of the new demons is the incubus--not necessarily bad, but still funny. Succubi were always demons prior to 4e, and then there was the change of recategorizing them as devils, as part of the effort to draw more distinction between devils and demons. And then incubi, which are in folklore and to some extent prior editions of D&D (definitely in 3.x, possibly in others) the male equivalents of succubi (or perhaps succubi in male form), get added back as demons. So much for keeping a nice clear distinction.

Of course, the more important thing isn't keeping to the original 4e plan--it's are the incubi cool and useful monsters, and do they feel like 4e demons? I hope both are true.

The article on Hestavar (astral domain of Pelor, Ioun, Erathis) included mention of an ambassador from the Nine Hells, who was a male succubus. So it may well be that succubus in 4E encompasses both genders, and incubi will be something else entirely. Shall be interesting to see, certainly.

 

[Anthraxus]

For some reason, I became very nervous.

Thanks to Bubonix for pointing this thread out to me. I do believe I'm going to start working out...

on new diseases!