Orcs preview

[malraux]

Nice to see a pdf excerpt from the Monster Manual.

That means a pdf exists.

Sell it to me, baby. You know you want to.

Assuming they have the book in any sort of electronic format, making a pdf is rather simple.

 

[malraux]

Interesting; I'd prefer less whitespace and divided statblocks (or, alternatively, fill the whitespace with pictures or something). It's not like I'll use the statblock directly from the book much of the time.

I think the hope for this edition is to make the stuff in the MM useful enough as it so that you can use it directly from the book.

 

[Wolfspider]

Assuming they have the book in any sort of electronic format, making a pdf is rather simple.

Yeah, I know. It just makes me quiver with excitement to see a pdf version of one of the new books.

Mmmmm...pdf.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

My reading of the article in question was that the dead at 0hp referred to the need not to worry about the stabilization checks.

Allowing monsters to be stabilized, resuscitated, and interrogated implies an ugly backstory.

 

[A'koss]

Regarding the Bloodrager Death Blow, the power says it only allows a basic melee attack. Is the "Blood for Blood" power considered rolled into a basic attack?

 

[Dausuul]

"Orc minions have no particular sense of honor and simply swarm around a foe and hack it to death...."

With clubs.

Sometimes I think about going into third-party publishing and putting out the Big Book o' Fluff, which would consist of coherent, well-written fluff for the 4E Core books that actually makes sense for the crunch it's describing.

Ah well. Maybe it ought to be some kind of wiki project.

 

[hong]

Hacking someone to death with a club makes exactly as much sense as cutting out someone's heart with a spoon.

 

[Wormwood]

Ah well. Maybe it ought to be some kind of wiki project.

[Citation needed]

 

[LowSpine]

Hacking someone to death with a club makes exactly as much sense as cutting out someone's heart with a spoon.

Unless it is a sharp club. Oh, hang on, that's an axe.

 

[TerraDave]

Finally, 4E gives us orcs worth running from.