Nice Balrog!

[Nytmare]

Serious stuff.

It's a joke. You laugh at them.

Also:

Nice Balrog!

"Thanks! I just had it stuffed."

 

[Rykion]

I still can't get over the fact that the Rakshasa assassin has two left hands.

The Rakshasa's palms and the back of its hands are supposed to be reversed compared to humans.

 

[Khairn]

Like any game, the artwork is always a subjective mix of good and bad. But this is definitely one of my favorite 4E pieces thus far!

 

[Nytmare]

I still can't get over the fact that the Rakshasa assassin has two left hands.

Is that a joke? I can't tell if this one is a joke.

Just to play it safe:

JOKE: "Hahahahaa. Good one."

NOT A JOKE: "That's what Rakshasa hands do. They're 'flipped' if that helps at all. What appears to be its right hand is on its left arm and vice versa."

 

[Keenath]

I still can't get over the fact that the Rakshasa assassin has two left hands.

Um... is that a joke or something? He has a left hand and a right hand just like he's supposed to. They're just on the ends of the wrong arms, because that's how Rakshasas have always been (since Indian mythology, I think). In fact, I recall that when they were making the Rakshasa minis, they had a terrible time with people coming along and noticing the hands were on the wrong arms, and "fixing" the "mistake". They had to put a post-it on the model that said, "Don't change the hands!"

Edit: Ninja'd!

Interesting effect on the sword, but something seems wrong in the proportion between the pecs and abs, and the head is just... eh.

Well, it IS a demon; maybe it's SUPPOSED to look a little "off" from human standard (other than the head, I mean).

Anyway, those may not be abs at all; they look like the traditional dragon-underbelly-scales to me.

I like the little jet-blast of fire coming out of its mouth, like when the balrog roars in the LOTR movie.

 

[frankthedm]

Do we know if Treants are in the new MM? I am thinking of running a very tolkien-esque campaign and I would love to use them. In 20 years of role-playing I don't think I have ever encountered or ran a game with treants.

Unknown, though it would be odd not to have some animate tree in the MM1. It might be more like the Agro trees in the FotR book rather than a guardian 'Ent'. Also the 4E version of the Dryad is a good fit for an 'Entwife'.

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=212064

 

[Intrope]

Nice Balrog!
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4dnd/artpreview
(No sarcasm, btw, I really am glad they didn't mess with the archetype behind this beastie.)

Now if only we still had hobbits instead of preteen rastafari gymnists...

I like it. And it's name shall be Devo

 

[StarFyre]

balrog

i remember reading balrog in some mythology. I believe toklien took the name but changed the form of it.

Then D&D changed it to balor.

And warhammer changed it to bloodthirster, etc.

Sanjay

 

[Satori]

The picture of the Blood Fiend and the Cambions makes me all wiggly inside.

Wait...maybe that's from the shellfish I ate yesterday.

I gotta go.

 

[Mirtek]

The Sword points to their Elemental origins, it would seem. Planar issues in 4E seem to break down thusly:

Angels:Astral <> Archons:Elemental
Devils:Astral <> Demons:Elemental

Thus:

Angelsevils <> Archonsemons

However IMO they made the angels way to much elemental. Personaly I think this totally softens differentiation they talked about as the goal they wanted to achieve almost to the point the whole seperation between elemental chaos and astral sea becomes meaningless.

What's the point if angels are actually just archons with wings? They should really have used a different theme for angels