I'm hoping the flex stat is Wis/Str, with the permant stat Dex. I'd love to make a Renegede Bladeling Blackguard MC Ardent, born in plane of Banehold, who fled to Brightwater when he realized he could sense the emotions of others almost going mad in an Ocean of rage and hate.
Plus it would be cool to have more indepth info on Bladelings and support, like feats and racial powers. I still want to know how Bladeling reproduce safely. Or sleep Pp without destroying thier bed. I suspect an ability to retract thier blades.
Also wouldn't mind learning more of thier Realmsian history and how they fit into other settings. I'm planning to get DDI in the new year when my life isn't so messed up.
Bladelings in previous editions were rarely religious, in 4e they have a much more religious background.
Which bladeling article is this? In which issue of the Dragon?
It's an upcoming article alluded to in a past Rule-of-Three column. No one knows yet what issue it will be in.
I still wonder why they did not give Gnolls flex stats since it currently is the only race with a writeup that does not have flex stats.
WoTC seems to have considered them "too monstrous" and have been shuffled back under the "MM race" category. I believe that was more or less their explanation back then.
Even if just a few references to Zoronar, Hriste the Blood Forest, etc. Depends on who on staff they have working on it.
Nope. Bladelings were first, spikers were the LA+0 version. "Lesser" bladelings, if you will.
Yep, bladelings were a race from 2e Planescape ('Planes of Law' box set and elsewhere like 'Faces of Sigil' for specific bladeling NPCs). They were written up in 3.x in a very brief entry in one of the monster manuals, and then there was a watered down race of "Spikers" in the 3.5 Planar Handbook which was inspired by them, but I don't recall if it attempted to explain itself and their relationship to each other (apparently it had to be a +0 LA race for PC use, because letting players play I dunno, actual bladelings was bad or something *shrug*).
They've always been written up as "monsters" rather than for PC use (though I fail to see any necessary distinction between the two outside of purely gamist design precepts)
The Planescape image of the gentleman bladeling was so much better than the demonic-looking things that have been produced since, and would give the race much more traction with the audience.
Make them look more like the lead zombie lady from Return of the Living Dead III and you'll get a lot more imaginations firing off.
Make them look more like the lead zombie lady from Return of the Living Dead III and you'll get a lot more imaginations firing off.
I'm afraid all my imagination fires off is: "Hey, that's a cool-looking shadar-kai!"
I suppose that's still an improvement on "hobgoblin with an unfortunate skin condition", though.
My friend is playing a Bladeling Monk right now, so he'll likely be interested in a true racial writeup. Everyone asks me, as DM, the same question: "How do they have sex?"
It's a little known fact that male and female Bladeling's spikes are located in slightly different spots, so when they... uh... get close, the spikes are interlocking. And naturally a Bladeling's skin is not harmed by a Bladeling's spike (unless shot at high velocity), so they're fine.
Here you go. I'm here all night.
Best Bladeling art so far:
It's like Go Nagai dreamed them.
I bet its an ecology artical like the Hengenokai.
Nah. 2e Monstrous Compendium Annual. Not sure which one of the 4 it was in.
I think he means the new article, not the old.
Nope. Bladelings were first, spikers were the LA+0 version. "Lesser" bladelings, if you will.
LA+O? Which book is that?
Planar Handbook.
Why would the Planar Handbook be abbreviated as LA+O?
Planar Handbook.
Why would the Planar Handbook be abbreviated as LA+O?
No, no, no. LA +0 means Level Adjustment +0 (it's a zero, not an 'oh').
In 3rd edition, powerful races had a 'level adjustment' for balance purposes; so, if you wanted to play a Bladeling (LA +1), you'd be one level less than the other player's characters.
Later, the Planar Handbook included a 'lesser' version of the Bladeling with no level adjustment (LA +0), i.e., as powerful as basic races like human or elf.