Monster Manual 3 Available at Gencon [merged]

[Razz]

Oh noez!!!111
God forbid they (gasp!) make something new!!!!
*screams of terror and bloodshed in the background*

Well, yeah, IMHO, God please forbid most of it. I like the ratio of converted monsters to new to be 50/50 rather than 10/90

 

[~Johnny~]

Just to confim what Kesh said, the new dinosaurs are entirely new. Like Eberron's "fastieth," they are based on known families but not on specific, known species.

 

[Knight Otu]

Just to confim what Kesh said, the new dinosaurs are entirely new. Like Eberron's "fastieth," they are based on known families but not on specific, known species.

Actually, according to the ECS, the fastieth is based on the leaellynasaura, a real species.

 

[JoeGKushner]

One thing that looked odd were the Warforged being in this book with several variants. I haven't picked it up yet, but one of my loony friends drove from Chicago to see what was going on at the Convention.

 

[Shemeska]

Yet an Ultroloth rules Daemonkind from the Khin Oin - Bring back Anthraxus WotC, this whole Mydianchlarus business is nonsensical. Instead of unleashing the likes of Bubonicus, Cholerix and Typhus upon us (absent from the Book of Vile Darkness for some ungodly reason) we get nothing.

Well here's hoping that any future fiend book has the 'loths in all their 'lothy glory. And the possibility for a fiend book, or two, was at least hinted at in the DnD General seminar at GenCon when I asked a few questions. I remain cautiously optimistic.

Of course the absence of the unique 'loths in the BoVD wasn't too much of a problem being as how IMC I killed most of them off in fairly short order. Meh. Mostly I'd love to see a Baernaloth in 3e.

 

[Pants]

Well here's hoping that any future fiend book has the 'loths in all their 'lothy glory. And the possibility for a fiend book, or two, was at least hinted at in the DnD General seminar at GenCon when I asked a few questions. I remain cautiously optimistic.

There's an FR fiend book coming out isn't there?

 

[Richards]

Originally posted by s/LaSH:

Heracles/Hercules: 'Glorious Gift', if Babynames.com can be trusted.

I think "Heracles" means "Loved by Hera" - which is ironic, as she pretty much despised the poor guy (you know, being the progeny of her husband Zeus and some lowly human trollop).

Johnathan

 

[Shemeska]

There's an FR fiend book coming out isn't there?

So the rumor held anyways. I think Rich Baker mentioned something about it over on the WotC boards.

However at GenCon it seemed, at least to me, that Andy Collins, Bill Slavicsek, etc heavily hinted that they were at least considering an ecology book, ala Draconomicon, for the fiends, possibly a book apiece for LE and CE. Andy may have just been humoring my question and driving the rumor mill, which from their perspective would be a good thing, but it seemed that something may be in the works even if its not been officially announced.

At the same seminar they even admitted that they may have swung too far towards 'crunch' in the latest share of books in the past few years, and that the Draconomicon was an even mix of that and 'fluff' that they might be wise to aim towards in the future. If that was an honest admission and a preview of a direction to watch for I will be very happy. I want to see them do the best stuff they can, and I've honestly been mostly underwhelmed for going on two years now.

 

[3d6+15]

The Poor Flightless Kenku!!!

Sorry to change topic slightly (not really a hijack, since the thread IS about MM3).

Very happy to see the return of the Kenku. I'm crying myself to sleep at night however over the fact that their wings are now vestigial.
I wonder why so many changes to the Kenku overall from 2E and earlier. They tend to be evil now too. They no longer have a crazy list of wizard spell like abilities either.

Just plain weird.

 

[dlane001]

Ditto here! What's the different between the Desert and Sand giants?

-Derek

I'm curious concerning the difference between the Desert Giant from MM3 and the Sand Giant from MM2. (If someone can elaborate a bit on the Death and Eldritch giants too, that would be nice.)