I'm A Banana
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Credit where credit is due:
4e's Underdark is a pretty amazing book
Loads of usable material, sitting right there for the taking. Flavor that is solid and interesting (seriously! good 4e fluff! I'm not even kidding!). Quite nice artwork with a minimum of rehashes (I think the Quaggoth was a re-hash, but I am not sure how many people remember Monsters of Faerun in 3e.
).
Monsters, as always, a little weak just sitting there, but Torog is given the space he needs to breathe and be awesome and horrific. The other ones are given enough support throughout the book that a few extra statblocks are nice. There's not much "Oh, why would I ever use this thing?" going on.
This book kicks some serious butt. And a lot of it won't be re-printed in the DDI!
This is the first 4e book I have looked over that has given me the feeling of "I've friggin' gotta use this thing next week."
I didn't expect much. A lot of Drow and repetition of the groan-worthy phrase "shadowdark" and perhaps too much on the kind-of-uninspiring Fomorians. But I want to use this. This has a lot of awesome in it.
About the only thing I could've asked for is an index of stuff by level/tier, so that I can quickly find all the cool Heroic tier sites and cities for ease of sticking them into my campaign when I need to. But even without that, I know I can turn to this book to deliver me some awesome.
Nice job.
What do others think?
4e's Underdark is a pretty amazing book
Loads of usable material, sitting right there for the taking. Flavor that is solid and interesting (seriously! good 4e fluff! I'm not even kidding!). Quite nice artwork with a minimum of rehashes (I think the Quaggoth was a re-hash, but I am not sure how many people remember Monsters of Faerun in 3e.
). Monsters, as always, a little weak just sitting there, but Torog is given the space he needs to breathe and be awesome and horrific. The other ones are given enough support throughout the book that a few extra statblocks are nice. There's not much "Oh, why would I ever use this thing?" going on.
This book kicks some serious butt. And a lot of it won't be re-printed in the DDI!
This is the first 4e book I have looked over that has given me the feeling of "I've friggin' gotta use this thing next week."
I didn't expect much. A lot of Drow and repetition of the groan-worthy phrase "shadowdark" and perhaps too much on the kind-of-uninspiring Fomorians. But I want to use this. This has a lot of awesome in it.
About the only thing I could've asked for is an index of stuff by level/tier, so that I can quickly find all the cool Heroic tier sites and cities for ease of sticking them into my campaign when I need to. But even without that, I know I can turn to this book to deliver me some awesome.
Nice job.
What do others think?
