Monster Manual III Announced

[Alzrius]

Sounds intriguing, also I wonder how they will react to the Ophidians and Saurials, as neither of these two races where in existance when they last walked Toril.

Ophidians, lizardfolk, troglodytes, yuan-ti, etc. are all offshoots of the Creator Race (from what I understand anyway), but saurials are not, having come from another world.

The Creator Race as described in Dragon believe themselves to be utterly perfect (to the point of being worthy of worship, though they have no divine asperations), and have no gods. They'd probably be appalled at the creature's that've sprung from their line, and I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted to destroy them (or at least enslave them, their culture permits that of other races).

Let's see, that brings the total to three 'new' evil groups to contend with in the Realms now that the shades have returned, and the phaerim have started to free themselves.

The balance is shifting towards neutrality people! The reign of good in the realms is over!

had it ever really begun? i always assumed that the balance always was more neutral than not, but with a lot of good and evil heavy hitters trying really hard to swing it one way or the other.

I agree with Krishnath on this one. The original Realms made the evil guys seem to be incompetent, backstabbing, and narrow-visioned, making it easy for good guys to tap dance all over them. Finally, evil is getting its due!

 

[Knight Otu]

From the impression I got from posts on the WOTC messageboard, the creator race will be much different.

I seem to remember that the Hit Dice of the SK creator race was revealed as being 14, while the Dragon Creator Race has 8 HD (or the other way round ). They are certainly different.

I've read a rumour in General Discussion that the second and third place of the setting search may have some hand in the MM3...

 

[DonaldRumsfeldsTofu]

If Monster Manual III was a compilition of every monster from a previous 3rd edition source, conversions of every monster from previous editions, and various new monsters based off of a wide variety of mythologies, world religions, literature, and popular culture, I would sell my soul to get it.

But as it is, it's probably going to be another book of surreal looking pseudo-Lovecraftian creatures with names that look like the result of slamming one's wrist against the keyboard, boring ghoul ripoffs, crappy conversions of previous monsters that are inferior compared to the CC versions, and the occasional gratuitous reprint that seems placed in there to meet the number of monsters they advertised, and it's going to be severely overprised and have a goofy cover, and I'm still going to buy it and complain about how it's not in the SRD.

 

[Olive]

and I'm still going to buy it and complain about how it's not in the SRD.

It's good to be honest!