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<blockquote data-quote="Mr. Kaze" data-source="post: 1737139" data-attributes="member: 8848"><p>In terms of deserving more table time than they get, I'd have to go for the Yuan-Ti. They're supposed to be genius-level dungeoncrafters that take sadistic glee in capturing, enslaving, torturing, and experimenting on lesser sentient creatures (like humans). But with the exception of <em>Serpent Kingdoms</em> -- which included the annoyingly inferior Lizardfolk -- I can't name any product that really goes into detail about how nifty the Yuan-Ti are as villians. Similarly, I can't name any major 3e adventure that highlights the Yuan-Ti's diabolical culture. We've got <em>City of the Spider Queen</em> and <em>Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil</em> and <em>Black Sails Over Freeport</em>, not <em>City of the Serpent Queen</em>, <em>Return to the Temple of Slithering Evil</em> and <em>Black Scales Over Freeport</em>.</p><p></p><p>I wonder if this is because the Yuan-Ti are non-SRD so anybody who isn't certain that WotC won't be publishing their adventure doesn't want to risk the publication of their adventure by putting the Yuan-Ti in...</p><p></p><p>::Kaze (notes that Yuan-Ti show up in <em>Icewind Dale</em> a couple of times, but more as hack-and-slash fodder than diabolical overlords well into their highly refined agenda.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mr. Kaze, post: 1737139, member: 8848"] In terms of deserving more table time than they get, I'd have to go for the Yuan-Ti. They're supposed to be genius-level dungeoncrafters that take sadistic glee in capturing, enslaving, torturing, and experimenting on lesser sentient creatures (like humans). But with the exception of [i]Serpent Kingdoms[/i] -- which included the annoyingly inferior Lizardfolk -- I can't name any product that really goes into detail about how nifty the Yuan-Ti are as villians. Similarly, I can't name any major 3e adventure that highlights the Yuan-Ti's diabolical culture. We've got [i]City of the Spider Queen[/i] and [i]Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil[/i] and [i]Black Sails Over Freeport[/i], not [i]City of the Serpent Queen[/i], [i]Return to the Temple of Slithering Evil[/i] and [i]Black Scales Over Freeport[/i]. I wonder if this is because the Yuan-Ti are non-SRD so anybody who isn't certain that WotC won't be publishing their adventure doesn't want to risk the publication of their adventure by putting the Yuan-Ti in... ::Kaze (notes that Yuan-Ti show up in [i]Icewind Dale[/i] a couple of times, but more as hack-and-slash fodder than diabolical overlords well into their highly refined agenda.) [/QUOTE]
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