Rich Baker on Dark Sun Dragonborn: Rodney [ ... ] challenged me to think hard about the dragonborn and what sort of Dark Sun "spin" we'd put on the[m ... to] make them distinctly Athasian. [ ... ] Maybe [ ... they] are a race that emphasizes [ ... their] Charisma boost [ ... ] suggest[ing] a much stronger emphasis on their natural talent for sorcery instead of swordplay. And maybe they are essentially dishonorable rather than honorable- [ ... ] the dragonish impulses of avarice and pride are very, very strong in Athasian dragonborn. [ ... But] maybe in Athas they're more social than you might expect[, ... ] and if you mess with one dragonborn in the clan, you mess with them all. They're big into vendettas and punishing people who offend or injure one of their own.
Take that all together, and you've got something interesting with these guys: The dragonborn (or dray) are a race of sorcerous merchants, hired spellcasters, pragmatic mercenaries, and maybe even slavers. They're not especially numerous [ ... t]heir clans are like small, insular merchant houses, and they might serve as deal-brokers and moneylenders [ ... and] maybe some clans bribe the sorcerer-kings and templars for dispensation to practice magic or sell their services as assassins. That's a pretty different slant on the dragonborn, one that will let you play an Athasian dragonborn as a much different type of person than you might have thought to try with the core story.
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Matthew Sernett is working on some material for Warlocks (if for a Dragon Article, or something like Arcane Power 2 is not clear.) - look at his tweet here:
Monsters on the back burner, it's time to cook up some warlock stuff. #dnd
Previews for Savage Encounters are ongoing - In preview 3 we see two Slaad, a Living Vine and some bullywugs - HERE
- In preview 4 we see two elementals, a human riding a horse, a goblin riding a wolf and a Norker! HERE
- In November and Beyond there is a Drider Fanglord, an Adult Purple Dragon, an Angel of Valor Legionnaire and a Legion Devil Legionnaire. Then there is an aspect of Grazzt (or actually him...) HERE
-And finally It seems Greyhaze has pictures and a complete spoiler of the set including: Bloodspike Behemoth, Death Knight (a Dragonborn), Deathrattle (a snake), Fallen Villager (a laying on ground/dying human), Githyanki Gish, Githyanki Mindslicer, A Marilith, a Nightwalker (large sized), Rat Swarm, Rockfire Dreadnought (an earth/fire elemental), Savage Minotaur (LARGE sized), Skeletal Cyclops, Specter and Vampire Guildmaster.
Check it all out here
Three major previews for Draconomicon II - Orium Dragons (here) a new reddish coloured metallic which spawns serpent minions, and a lair for them here
And finally some traps and hazards you might find in a dragons lair in the November (and beyond)
The last preview in this month's November and Beyond is for the upcoming The Plane Below: Secrets of the Elemental Chaos - showing a hazard of Steel Rain, and a new type of Slaad
Finally the DDI Content Calender updated for November, showing the new everyday update schedule, and bringing the Dragon/Player, Dungeon/DM divide to clear focus - lots of short class and race articles this month, and moved columns.
More interestingly two new 3.5 Updates for Eberron Fans: Dragons of Eberron for 3 November 2009 and City of Stormreach on 11 November.
And Finally finally finally, despite updateding onto the schedule late, this month's Player's Handbook 3 prerelease material is the unexciting Monk!
Ok super long post, but we're all up to date again!
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