Rich Baker wrote: WotC_RichBaker
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Howdy, folks --
Sorry for the long delay, but it's been a crazy week. I got back from GenCon on Sunday the 19th and took Monday off (we normally get a day off after a weekend-eating show). This past weekend I took my family down to the Oregon coast and spent three days in Pacific City, just to get in one last little breath of summer before school starts up again for the girls. Going to the beach out here does not involve much swimming, since the water is icy cold and often has dangerous rip currents. It's more about building sand castles, flying kites, and maybe reading a book.
Anyway, let me tell you what I've been up to since GenCon. In a word: monsters. The writing team (that's me, James Wyatt, Bruce Cordell, and Chris Sims) is working on fleshing out the Monster Manual entries and doing a bit of a "story" pass on the monsters. Last week I spent a couple of days working on devils. Here are a couple of devilish tidbits I'll leak for now:
- Devils are angels who rebelled. They rose up against the deity they served and murdered him. The crime of deicide is unimaginably perverse for angels, and hence devils were cursed and imprisoned in the Nine Hells.
- The Nine Hells are what became of the murdered deity's divine realm after his death. The Hells are the devils' prison, and it is difficult for them to get out without mortal aid.
- We've re-sorted demons and devils a bit, since we want these two categories of monsters to make a little more sense. Devils tend to be more humanoid in form, usually fight with weapons, and often wear armor. Most have horns, wings, and tails. One consequence of this: the erinyes and the succubus were holding down pretty similar territory, so we've decided that they're the same monster, called the succubus, and it's a devil.
- Ice devils don't look like other devils. We've decided that they are actually a demonic/yugoloth race... one that was entrapped by Mephistopheles long ago in an infernal contract. So ice devils hate other devils, retain their insect-like appearance, and have a special loyalty to Mephistopheles. It's one of the reasons why Asmodeus has never chosen to move against Mephistopheles. Asmodeus would of course win if he did, but that would let the ice devils out of their contract.
Anyway, that's the sort of stuff us story guys are working on. More later!
All I have to say is AWWWWWWWWWW THOSE BITCHES! WHAT THE FUCK!!!!
Here we've been playing with shitty sortups of devil here, demon there, and now they go and shuffle it like a deck of cards???
Do they realize- well OK yeah they intend to make all previous editions of 3.x even more obsolete... but this... :jawdrop:
