The classic D&D monsters are back!
ShapiroKeatsDarkMage
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Have you read the monster manual of D&D 5th edition? It features some of the 1st and 2nd edition monsters that weren't updated for the 3rd and 4th edition. Even the Flumphs and Death Knights are there.
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A death knight is the horrifying corruption of a paladin or lawful good warrior cursed by the gods to its terrible form as punishment for betraying the code of honor it held in life.
A death knight resembles a hulking knight, typically taller than 6 feet and weighing more than 300 pounds. Its face is a blackened skull covered with shards of shriveled, rotting flesh. It has two tiny, glowing orange-red pinpoints for eyes. Its armor is scorched black as if it had been in a fire. The demeanor of a death knight is so terrifying that even kender have been known to become frightened.
A death knight’s deep, chilling voice seems to echo from the depths of a bottomless cavern. A death knight converses in the language it spoke in its former life, as well as up to six additional languages.
What a jolly fellow
Edit. Typo.
:P
Just wanted to give a general description of a death knight and that was the first one I found.
On a side note, what does the 5th Edition say about Tanar'ri? Are they still regarded as Chaos Elementals (or whatever 4th edition has cursed them with)? Or was their noble outsider race from Planescape finally reestablished?
And more importantly, are Modrons back? Haven't seen those clockwork guys around since the good ol' AD&D second edition days.
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0074.html
Here's the image (on the Wikipedia page): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flumph
The things hanging down on the bottom? Not tentacles… spikes. Flumphs damaged things by floating up above them and dropping down hard. Still, only 1-8 damage (plus 1-4 Acid damage), but they were the punji stake monsters.
Raistlin beats Takhisis by tricking her, not fighting her
but time is reset and he chooses not to,
the allfather was not the actual allfather,
the gods don't quit; someone moves the world to where they can't find it while they're distacted with the fake allfather,
the cataclysm didn't happen because the Kingpreist wanted to wipe out evil; he already had, he moved on to wipe out neturality and had begun to wipe out non sanctioned versions of the good gods and he got nuked.
the no gods situation lasts two books! two!
black robes do not worship evil, it's a power balance thing. evil spells have greater costs for greater benefits and they're fine with taking evil acts for power. true evil ones usually go renegade
red robes are not devoted to neutrality, they're not undecided. they either don't care about the usual power struggles or they want access to wider arrays of magic
there is no "I don't wanna be seen as evil" idea with the robes. 1/3 of the council is wearing the black robes!
most villages will chase out any wizard, white or black. In Solamnia, the land of happy knighthood, they'll just kill you outright.
Raistlin changed to black robes (going renegade to do so) to join the bloody army of darkness to help Takhisis take over the world. And she was winning. the world was covered in people with "terrorist" stapled to their chest. pretending to be good was more likely to get you killed.
Soth was not a servant of Takhisis, she tried to conscript him and he said "Hell no. Get someone to spend the night in my spooky castle and we'll talk." and she responded with "well... that's probably not gonna happen" then it did later
he was already doing all the things that the ravenloft guys do to him himself in dragonlance, he even had the banshees from the beginning and gets super pissed off if anyone interrupts them. that said, I'm totally getting that book
... and Darth Maul's whole race kinda look like the devil
And Ick, gross! And generally horrifying experience...
http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Black_Cloud_of_Vengeance_(5e_Creature)
...Come to think of it, what do the Aasimar Tieflings and Genasi actually look like in the 5th edition? *crosses tentacles that Tieflings&Co. are restored to their rightful Planescape appearances*