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Interesting that they noted the deal he made with Bane. I can imagine the God of Tyranny's follower's aiding the PC's at their god's command because He knows Tam will certainly default on the debt if he becomes a god. After his part in BG3, Bane being an ally would be an interesting twist.

Well I'll be dammed. They really are bringing Dark Sun Back, and it looks like they're serious about it, too.

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Finally, they added Fist to the spell lists.

Borca has 2, I believe.

Oh, I can definitely agree with that. It would be like making the Amber Sarcophagi the Darklords of Barovia, or the Gnawing Plague the Darklord of Richemulot.

A quick thing I'd like to point out is that Ravenloft (and Lamordia specifically), would pair really well with that 3rd party Monsters of Drakkenheim book. It's got a whole chapter about different patchwork horrors of flesh and steel shocked to life on the slab of a heartless doctor.

Ehhhh... I dunno about putting actual player content behind subscriptions. VTT maps for the DM, I can understand, but content for players to use is another matter entirely. Will there be another way to get this content?

I dunno, Dark Sun has more then just uncomfortable themes going against it. It's gameplay is all about scarcity and survival in a brutal wasteland, which I don't think 5e is really equipped to handle. A lot of other tables already only pay lip service to spell components and rations on the road. I just don't think a whole bunch of people are up for dealing with water, weapons that break every few hits, constant streams of monsters that stretch those weapons well past the limit, and magic that salts the earth and gets the caster lynched in public. They would have to build a whole framework for a "hardcore mode" to 5e that works well before even trying to tackle Dark Sun, and If you think that's secondary to getting the setting published, then look back at Spelljammer.

So I took a look at a promotional image from ENworld, and they're

I'd say its an Eberron thing. The monster races not being uniformly evil was one of the basic details about the setting's worldbuilding when it first came out, iirc. They're still fiends normally, but Eberron (literally) being in it's own bubble means it gets to ignore the baseline lore whenever it feels like it.

If you go to Monsters on this site and look him up, then you don't need the book to see that he's CR 19. You can also see artwork of monsters without owning the material doing that.

EDIT: 18, actually. That's surprisingly low for something that's supposed to be seven liches tossed in a blender.

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Zlan looks like he'd fit right in with the 3rd party Drakkenheim setting. His connection to chardalyn can even be reflavored as the Delerium crystals that are central to that setting.

 

I was thinking the same thing!  I'm absolutely using this thing in the city, maybe even in Castle Drakken itself.

Personally, I'd use this thing to represent...

Zlan looks like he'd fit right in with the 3rd party Drakkenheim setting. His connection to chardalyn can even be reflavored as the Delerium crystals that are central to that setting.

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This is completely unrelated to this article, but I think it would be really cool if a lore article about the 3 different liches in the upcoming setting book is posted. They (especially the guy who can turn into a dracolich) sound very interesting.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/2090-how-to-make-sammaster-the-big-bad-of-your-d-d