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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Psion" data-source="post: 1661395" data-attributes="member: 959">Trivia Time! What was the 1st appearance by a Sarrukh in a Forgotten Realms Product?Hint: Club +2/ +3 vs. BullywugsI have a mixed reaction to this book, on one hand it is great that we have finished revisiting 1st and 2nd edition territory and are now moving into unexplored areas of the realms. And this book does cover some of the forgotten Scaly races like Ophidians, Fire Newts and the Lizard King from the original Fiend Folio.But the book suffers from some bad editing in the way it is written, maybe it's the three authors stlyes conflicting. The Dinosaur entry does not reflect the modern view of dinosaurs, Pteradons are not dinosaurs, they are reptiles. The Jaculi's abilities are described as Psionic, but not listed as Psionic. The Two Yuan-ti templates from the FR: Monsterous Compendium (Tainted One & Broodguard) are mentioned many times, but are not included. They should have been updated to 3.5 with this book. Two new types of Yuan-Ti are introduced Holy Guardians and Magelsayers, but they should have been done as either templates or a Prestige class.And of course there is one other problem, the Yuan-Ti are a Psionic race, but Psionics is almost completely ignored by this book. This is complicated by a new Forgotten Realms novel, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786931663/ref=cm_plog_yoo_dp/002-0342479-1948056?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance" target="_blank">Venom's Taste </a> in which the psionic abilities of the Yuan-Ti play an important part. Scroll down to the Search inside this book and enter "Psionic", 40 responses.One thing I have always hated about the FR novel line is when they introduce something interesting and the RPG line then counters, or ignores it outright. I wonder if the Shining South will mention that the last king of Halruaa was both a Diviner and a Seer? That's how he got around the other mages wards.Answer: [SPOILER]Lords of Darkness: The Mummy adventure[/SPOILER]</blockquote>

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