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Back on July 1st, I blogged about the alien race known as the Femanx that caused onto Porphyra. It you didn't read it you can find the entry here . I believe I called them Femiax but I believe that name is closed content so in the final Races of Porphyra and Lands of Porphyra they will be address as Femanx. The other race that we have worked up for the letter F is the forlarren. Forlarren are the unfortunate offspring of demonic forces and nymphs. They are a very troubled race. We first worked with the folarren as a playable race back in Monstrous Races: The Second Wave and they turned out something like this. FORLARREN RACIAL TRAITS (0 RP) +2 Dexterity, +2 Wisdom, -2 Intelligence: Forlarren are graceful and intuitive, but possess only a low cunning that serves their cruelty. (2 RP) Fey: Forlarren are of the fey type. Forlarren possess no racial hit dice and exchange the features of their fey type for the class features of a PC or NPC class. (0 RP) Medium : Forlarren are Medi...

So I just got access to my download of Ultimate Combat yesterday. The most shocking thing to me in the book is the lack of magical weapons. There are no magical weapons in Ultimate Combat and there were no magic items in Ultimate Magic. This struck me as very odd. It must have struck others as odd to because I was just asked by Headless Hydra Games to contribute to a new series of magic weapon/item releases. Here is the first one I sent over (this is rough). BANG CUTTER (MARK) Aura faint transmutation; CL 4th Slot none; Price 4,308 gp; Weight 1 lb. Description This +1 dogslicer was made from a magical shortsword found discarded in a junk heap. The goblin who fashioned this blade decorated with images of fire and burning dogs. When fighting dogs or horses, the blade becomes wreathed in flame and deals an additional +1d4 points of fire damage. Additionally, the wielder may use the pyrotechnics (DC 13) once per day. Constuction Requirements Craft Magic Arms and Armor, must be goblin...

Northern Waste Otyugh The second Otyughnomicon is almost finish. It will be heading into layout this week. The primary focus of this issue is the Northern Wastes template that is part environment and are magical in nature. Related Development In other news it looks like both Thomas Baumbach (Author of Monstrous Races: Second Wave and Dorkistan ) and Stefen Styrsky (Author on a whack of stuff ) have been doing more from for K. Axel Carlsson at Headless Hydra Games . Both Stefen and Tom have new monsters in the Mor Aldenn Creature Compendium pictured below. Stefen and I first worked with Axel when we were writing Forgotten Foes for Tricky Owlbear Publishing. Since the founding of Purple Duck Games, Axel is one of the many 3PP publishers that have offered Purple Duck Games assistance and advice on the various products that we have in development. Mor Aldenn is the default setting for Headless Hydra Games products but there is nothing that prevents these beasties from destroying  ch...