![]() ![]() Handmade with care from start to finish, this is a sturdy, practical and lovingly made bag. This reversible dice bag is perfect for storing your dice, game tiles or tokens, between games or with you on a quest. It's also worth bookmarking our guide to the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons Black Friday deals, not to mention our page of Black Friday board game deals. Want something to keep you busy until then? Don't forget to check out the best board games. We'll be able to test-drive these abilities for ourselves soon enough Fizban's Treasury of Dragons is set to launch this October 26. "Their Dream Breath is one manifestation of that connection they also have the ability to communicate in dreams with creatures that sleep near their lairs as a regional effect, and a lair action that can temporarily banish creatures to a dream plane." They were mysterious in many ways, but sometimes showed up in people’s dreams to offer guidance or advice", Wyatt explains. "In their original incarnation in second edition, moonstone dragons were strongly linked to dreams. The team still managed to keep something of the old moonstone dragon in these new rules, though. Indeed, the first moonstone drakes have been retconned as the result of eggs carried by First World refugees that were changed by Feywild magic. They were also tied to the myth of D&D's original world that's long since been lost. With that in mind, Wyatt and co reintroduced them for Fizban's Treasury of Dragons as a representative of the Feywild (the parallel world seen in The Wild Beyond the Witchlight). Despite having been introduced in the 1998 version of D&D, they weren't particularly well defined. The updated moonstone dragon - including that moonstone dragon wyrmling you can see below - sits at the opposite end of the scale. But I think the beholder might be so offended and unsettled by the eyedrake’s appearance that it’s not at the top of its game, which could give the eyedrake an edge." Waking the dragon It’s a significantly more powerful threat at challenge rating 13 compared to the eyedrake’s 8. "Going strictly by the numbers, the beholder would probably win. When I asked what would win in a scrap between a beholder and its dragon-inspired offspring, Wyatt revealed that this new monster wouldn't go down easy. Not that the eyedrake isn't a force to be reckoned with, of course. However, this creativity introduced some problems of its own. Shawn managed to find the perfect fusion of beholder features with dragon shape, down to the central eye that’s inside the dragon’s gaping maw." His visual design absolutely informed the monster design. Our in-house concept artist, Shawn Wood, helped into the hideous monstrosity we see in the book. "The eyedrake began life literally as a line in a spreadsheet that said, 'beholders dream of dragons, creating a draconic inspired beholderkin'. As an unholy spawn of the many-eyed beholder, this addition to Fizban's Treasury of Dragons is quite literally the stuff of nightmares. The moonstone dragon from second edition D&D is an example of the former, while the hideous eyedrake sits in the latter category. "We started the design process for the bestiary chapter with two lists: a list of creatures from past editions we wanted to bring forward (including the gem dragons and the moonstone dragon) and a list of creature ideas we wanted to flesh out," he says during our interview. ![]()
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