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NOW LIVE! Into the Woods--new character species, eerie monsters, and haunting villains to populate the woodlands of your D&D games.
Sandstorm- any questions?
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Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
List and basic summary of prestige classes?
Highlights of monsters?
How comparable is it to Frostburn?
What dieties are there?
If you hit a wiffle ball with it, how far will the ball go?
Highlights of monsters?
How comparable is it to Frostburn?
What dieties are there?
If you hit a wiffle ball with it, how far will the ball go?
Eremite
Explorer
Monsters
Monsters:
ashen husk
asherati (LA +0)
ashworm
bhuka (LA +0)
camelopardel
crawling apocalypse
crucian (LA +2)
cursed cold one (gelun) (LA +2)
desert devil (LA +6)
dinosaur:
- protoceratops
- diprotodon
dire animal:
- dire hippopotamus (no picture)
- dire jackal
- dire puma
- dire tortoise
- dire vulture
dragon, sand
dry lich (LA +5)
dune hag
dunewinder
dustblight (LA +3)
dustform creature (LA +2)
dust twister (no picture)
forlorn husk
giant banded lizard
half-janni (LA +3)
ironthorn
lycanthrope:
- werecrocodile (LA +3)
marruspawn:
- marrulurk (LA +1)
- marrusult (LA +2)
- marrutact (LA +3)
marruspawn abomination
mephit:
- glass (LA +3, cohort)
- sulphur (LA +3, cohort)
mirage mullah (no picture) (LA +3 or +4 if Cha > 18)
ooze:
- brine (no picture)
- lava
porcupine cactus
saguaro sentinel (LA +4)
sand golem
sand hunter
scarab swarm, death
scorpion swarm
sphinx:
- canis- (LA +3, cohort)
- croco- (LA +8, cohort)
- sauro- (no picture) (LA +2, cohort)
- threski- (no picture) (LA +5, cohort)
thunderbird
troll, wasteland (LA +5)
tumbling mound (no picture)
waste crawler (anhydrut... yes, that wheeled thing)
animals:
- camels: dromedary, two-humped, war (no pictures)
- hippopotamus (no picture)
- horned lizard
- jackal
- serval
- vulture
vermin:
- brine swimmer (no picture)
- giant ant lion
- giant termite (no pictures)
Highlights: crawling apocalypse (hmmm, sand-dwelling undead kraken-like thing), dry lich (canopic jars instead of a phylactery, dessicating touch) and DEATH SCARAB SWARM (OK, so I may have watched the Mummy movies too many times).
Lowlights: asherati (yet another PC race), bhuka (yet another PC race), good to see stats for various desert animals (particularly vultures and jackals, both normal and dire versions), waste crawler (I don't like my monsters with wheels)
Oh, and wow to cause a player to die of shame? Have his PC eaten by a dire wombat.
Monsters:
ashen husk
asherati (LA +0)
ashworm
bhuka (LA +0)
camelopardel
crawling apocalypse
crucian (LA +2)
cursed cold one (gelun) (LA +2)
desert devil (LA +6)
dinosaur:
- protoceratops
- diprotodon
dire animal:
- dire hippopotamus (no picture)
- dire jackal
- dire puma
- dire tortoise
- dire vulture
dragon, sand
dry lich (LA +5)
dune hag
dunewinder
dustblight (LA +3)
dustform creature (LA +2)
dust twister (no picture)
forlorn husk
giant banded lizard
half-janni (LA +3)
ironthorn
lycanthrope:
- werecrocodile (LA +3)
marruspawn:
- marrulurk (LA +1)
- marrusult (LA +2)
- marrutact (LA +3)
marruspawn abomination
mephit:
- glass (LA +3, cohort)
- sulphur (LA +3, cohort)
mirage mullah (no picture) (LA +3 or +4 if Cha > 18)
ooze:
- brine (no picture)
- lava
porcupine cactus
saguaro sentinel (LA +4)
sand golem
sand hunter
scarab swarm, death
scorpion swarm
sphinx:
- canis- (LA +3, cohort)
- croco- (LA +8, cohort)
- sauro- (no picture) (LA +2, cohort)
- threski- (no picture) (LA +5, cohort)
thunderbird
troll, wasteland (LA +5)
tumbling mound (no picture)
waste crawler (anhydrut... yes, that wheeled thing)
animals:
- camels: dromedary, two-humped, war (no pictures)
- hippopotamus (no picture)
- horned lizard
- jackal
- serval
- vulture
vermin:
- brine swimmer (no picture)
- giant ant lion
- giant termite (no pictures)
Highlights: crawling apocalypse (hmmm, sand-dwelling undead kraken-like thing), dry lich (canopic jars instead of a phylactery, dessicating touch) and DEATH SCARAB SWARM (OK, so I may have watched the Mummy movies too many times).
Lowlights: asherati (yet another PC race), bhuka (yet another PC race), good to see stats for various desert animals (particularly vultures and jackals, both normal and dire versions), waste crawler (I don't like my monsters with wheels)
Oh, and wow to cause a player to die of shame? Have his PC eaten by a dire wombat.
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Eremite
Explorer
Prestige Classes
Ashworm Dragoon: see the WotC preview.
Lord of Tides: spellcaster who can tap into elemental forces of water and earth.
Sand Shaper: dust magic specialist. Entry to this PrC requires travel to a touchstone site.
Scion of Tem-Et-Nu: river guardians.
Scorpion Heritor: think of a rogue (sneak attack damage) crossed with the Scorpion King.
Walker in the Waste: members of this PrC become dry liches at 10th level and along the way enjoy the ability to drain the life water out of their foes, create salt mummies and sand golems.
Each of these PrCs is pretty powerful but at least they're interesting.
Ashworm Dragoon: see the WotC preview.
Lord of Tides: spellcaster who can tap into elemental forces of water and earth.
Sand Shaper: dust magic specialist. Entry to this PrC requires travel to a touchstone site.
Scion of Tem-Et-Nu: river guardians.
Scorpion Heritor: think of a rogue (sneak attack damage) crossed with the Scorpion King.
Walker in the Waste: members of this PrC become dry liches at 10th level and along the way enjoy the ability to drain the life water out of their foes, create salt mummies and sand golems.
Each of these PrCs is pretty powerful but at least they're interesting.
Eremite
Explorer
Deities
"Dieties" (sic) is probably the correct spelling in the case of Sandstorm because they are given the "low calorie treatment": there is very little information on the new deities, just a single paragraph on the new "deities of the wastelands" and a simple table for the Egyptian and Babylonian deities. None of the deities has a picture of his or her respective symbol; the deities of the wastelands have their symbols briefly described in their one-paragraph write-ups. Frankly, WotC would probably have been better served omitting the tables for the Egyptian and Babylonian pantheons and putting in some small pictures of symbols instead.
"Dieties" (sic) is probably the correct spelling in the case of Sandstorm because they are given the "low calorie treatment": there is very little information on the new deities, just a single paragraph on the new "deities of the wastelands" and a simple table for the Egyptian and Babylonian deities. None of the deities has a picture of his or her respective symbol; the deities of the wastelands have their symbols briefly described in their one-paragraph write-ups. Frankly, WotC would probably have been better served omitting the tables for the Egyptian and Babylonian pantheons and putting in some small pictures of symbols instead.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Dire hippo seems an odd choice, since they're a water-dependent species, as far as I know.
Is the giant banded lizard a gila monster? Does it have a poisonous bite and a special bite ability? (If it is, this could almost sell me on the book all by itself.)
Is the giant banded lizard a gila monster? Does it have a poisonous bite and a special bite ability? (If it is, this could almost sell me on the book all by itself.)
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Is the half-janni the only reference to genies you see? What's the LA of a half-janni character?
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