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<blockquote data-quote="Echohawk" data-source="post: 8614665" data-attributes="member: 9849"><p>The dreadnought has an interesting history of early appearances.</p><p></p><p>It first appears as the iconic cover art of the 1987 AD&D <em>Manual of the Planes</em>, but is only mentioned in passing inside the book, where it is referenced as an <u>ethereal</u> dreadnought in the section on magic in the ethereal (page 19). It first gets game statistics on card #261 of the <em>1991 Trading Cards set</em>; these stats peg it as only 12' in size with no interesting abilities except for an ability to snap the silver cords of astrally projecting creatures.</p><p></p><p>In Planescape, astral dreadnoughts are first mentioned in <em>A Player's Guide to the Planes</em> in the original boxed set, where they are referenced as examples of "bigger and meaner" things lurking in the astral. The dreadnought finally gets a proper two-page spread in 1995 in the <em>Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix II</em>. This description wisely ignores the trading card stats, and treats them as gargantuan beasts. In this version they specifically don't attack silver cords except incidentally during the process of slaughtering astral travellers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Echohawk, post: 8614665, member: 9849"] The dreadnought has an interesting history of early appearances. It first appears as the iconic cover art of the 1987 AD&D [I]Manual of the Planes[/I], but is only mentioned in passing inside the book, where it is referenced as an [U]ethereal[/U] dreadnought in the section on magic in the ethereal (page 19). It first gets game statistics on card #261 of the [I]1991 Trading Cards set[/I]; these stats peg it as only 12' in size with no interesting abilities except for an ability to snap the silver cords of astrally projecting creatures. In Planescape, astral dreadnoughts are first mentioned in [I]A Player's Guide to the Planes[/I] in the original boxed set, where they are referenced as examples of "bigger and meaner" things lurking in the astral. The dreadnought finally gets a proper two-page spread in 1995 in the [I]Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix II[/I]. This description wisely ignores the trading card stats, and treats them as gargantuan beasts. In this version they specifically don't attack silver cords except incidentally during the process of slaughtering astral travellers. [/QUOTE]
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