Realmslore: Sarifal
Ecology of Rustmonster
Playing Revenants
Draconomicon Turaglas
Class Acts: Bard
Playtest: MM3
Adventures of the Realms Bard
PLus usual Dungeon stuff, particularly looking forward to the Skill Challenge advise.
My main question is.... What are Revenants?
As for Revenant it appears from what I have gleamed from google to be a Undead.
2) Revenants are perhaps the Undying Court from Eberron?
3) Yay for Bard stuff!
Creature Incarnations: Fell Taints
My main question is.... What are Revenants?
A type of undead similar to a wight.
A type of undead similar to a wight.
But why would it them be a "Playing " article? It sounds like a PC race.
And, based on the other "Playing: (Insert Race here)" Articles, that means that we'll soon have a core zombie-like race to play. I'm very...intrigued.
This could be quite interesting if they're releasing a playable undead race. Is this a possible preview for one of the races to appear in PHB3? Not sure, though I'd imagine an undead race would be saved for the release of the Shadow source, since that will probably include the necromantic classes.
If the revenant is a PHB3 race, then it might be a sign that one of the new divine or primal classes may deal with undead/spirits (Exorcist/Medium?).
Personally, I was hoping for PC Blasphemes, but this is good too.
The other thing is that the Ecology of the Rustmonster - could that be a tentative for the Ecology of the Adamantine Dragon, put there before they figured out the winner? The problem with this theory of mine, though, is that that would mean they're making the article in only a few weeks, not quickly enough for the end of the contest to the article's release. We'll probably, therefore, get Ecology of the Adamantine Dragon or some such article in July or later.
Ok. Rant over (especially since no one even actually said D&D=WoW. Guess that's just been building up =P).
I don't know how I'd feel about Blasphemes. Could be cool...could be...weird. "My character has the head of a dwarf, the arms of a goliath, the left leg of an elf, the right leg of an eladrin, the body of a storm genasi, and the tail of a tiefling." ;)
But Revenants are always cool, especially if they make good Avengers. Vengeance from the grave is a classic setup.
Do we need to take everything from WoW and put it in D&D? Do we really need to mainstream undead PCs?
Revenants were great tools for a creative DM in 1E... they could bring back a foe that the PCs felled at a low level as a high level - really scary - enemy. I can't see how they'll twist that concept into a PC race. I'm betting this is just another case of name appropriation.
Do we need to take everything from WoW and put it in D&D? Do we really need to mainstream undead PCs?
Wow was not the first game to allow players to be undead.
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Alternatively, could it be a sign that the picture of the PHB3 cover in that news article was a fake, meaning we may get Shadow in the PHB3 as well?
If not either of them, then chalk me up with the "PHB4 Shadow-Themed Race" slot. I'm wondering how closely this will tie to the "old" revenant lore, which made them slain living beings brought back by an overwhelming urge for vengeance.
Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.
Do we need to take everything from WoW and put it in D&D? Do we really need to mainstream undead PCs?
Revenants were great tools for a creative DM in 1E... they could bring back a foe that the PCs felled at a low level as a high level - really scary - enemy. I can't see how they'll twist that concept into a PC race. I'm betting this is just another case of name appropriation.
I am going to find you and do something unpleasant to you and your loved ones. Most likely some form of noogie.
Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.
Do we need to take everything from WoW and put it in D&D? Do we really need to mainstream undead PCs?
Revenants were great tools for a creative DM in 1E... they could bring back a foe that the PCs felled at a low level as a high level - really scary - enemy. I can't see how they'll twist that concept into a PC race. I'm betting this is just another case of name appropriation.
Lols. Because everything in 4e = WoW, right? Here's a clue: http://home.flash.net/~brenfrow/rv/rv-req.htm
Hmm... is it at all possible that the Revenant might be the third race in the Eberron Player's Guide? I never really had the chance to get too heavily into the setting, but isn't one of the nations rather heavily invested in necromancy, with a large amount of intelligent undead troops in its army?
Alternatively, could it be a sign that the picture of the PHB3 cover in that news article was a fake, meaning we may get Shadow in the PHB3 as well?
If not either of them, then chalk me up with the "PHB4 Shadow-Themed Race" slot. I'm wondering how closely this will tie to the "old" revenant lore, which made them slain living beings brought back by an overwhelming urge for vengeance.
The third EPG race is 99% most likely going to be the Doppleganger/Changeling. And I sincerely doubt the "Divine/Primal" label on the PH3 cover is a placeholder. The most likely outcome is that if Revenants get put in a PH (which is pretty likely considering the Warforged, Minotaur, and almost certainly Shadar-kai), it'll be in whichever one gets the Shadow source as your last bit said.
And I sincerely doubt the "Divine/Primal" label on the PH3 cover is a placeholder.
Indeed. If WotC wasn't ready to reveal all power sources for PHB3 they would have either left that bar blank (they do it all the time with M:tG previews) or they would have inserted something silly like "playing psionic, banana, and pudding heroes" (likely in a scribbled handwritten font). Putting plausible power sources on the cover that aren't intended to be in the actual book would just be asking for trouble.
Anyway, I'm psychic for revenants. Also, Forbidden Forge looks intriguing (sent me scuttling through my old 3.5 books to check to see if it was a remake of the intro adventure from the original ECS, but turns out that adventure was Forgotten Forge).
Rustmonster eology, sounds interesting, but I will only be glancing through it anyway.
Looks like the Class Acts articles are making a return after a bit of a hiatus - 6 months or more?
Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.
Do we need to take everything from WoW and put it in D&D? Do we really need to mainstream undead PCs?
You must absolutely despise the Archlich Epic Destiny from Complete Arcane then, yes?
The third EPG race is 99% most likely going to be the Doppleganger/Changeling.
If you go to the Excerpts:EPG Self-Forged Page and scroll to the bottom.
You will find a picture of a Doppleganger/Changeling scheduled to appear for tomorrows EPG Excerpts.
So I think it pretty much 100% they will be in the EPG
As such, I expect Gnolls (with a fixed Gnoll Clawfighter feat) to be in PH3. (alongside the Monk and Minotaur)
Ok...I have a problem with the calendar. It lists EPG Excerpts until 6-22, but it lists the release date of the EPG as "5-19". I assume it means 6-23 as it's listed as "Released Tomorrow" on the 22nd. But Amazon has been telling me that it'll be released on 6-16. I know to trust WotC over Amazon, but I'm curious as to what caused this particular mishap.
The ones from the 15th onward are ECG, not EPG. I don't know if you just misread it, or if it was originally labelled wrong and recently fixed.
If you go to the Excerpts:EPG Self-Forged Page and scroll to the bottom.
You will find a picture of a Doppleganger/Changeling scheduled to appear for tomorrows EPG Excerpts.
So I think it pretty much 100% they will be in the EPG
If you mean the Religion article, she looks more like a Drow to me.
That said, I have no doubt Dopplegangers are a lock for the EPG anyway.
I predict Revenants and the Shadow power source for PHB 4 in 2011. ;)
Do we really need to mainstream undead PCs?
Yes, because they're awesome. Now if we could only get playable Archons and Myconids and and and...
The ones from the 15th onward are ECG, not EPG. I don't know if you just misread it, or if it was originally labelled wrong and recently fixed.
Could have been either...most likely it was both. They seem to have changed the release date of the EPG back to the 16 like I thought...
