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It's high time we had another Current Clacks, so let's catch up on just a few of our recent adventures, with monsters and magic and more.

📖: Concept art for D&D 5th edition
🎨: Florian de Gesincourt

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36 Years Ago: Draconomicon was released.

This 2e accessory provides information about dragons, including their physiology, biology, behavior, & abilities. It details the social structures, hierarchies, and cultures of dragons.
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Hriiat Fine Pastries was a popular bakery shop in Waterdeep. The popularity was such that crowds and crowded lines near constantly formed outside whenever the smell of a fresh batch of pastries wafted in the air.
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Emmer of Tharsult was a merchant who recorded the gossip, fads, and fashions of his travels in annual chapbooks. Among the reports he collected were sightings of the ancient green dragon Aglaraerose over Veldorn.
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Artist: William O'Connor

Source: Ed Stark, James Jacobs, Erik Mona (June 13, 2006). Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 77. ISBN 0-7869-3919-2.

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Pazuzu was a powerful demon lord and one of the eldest & most reprehensible of them. He held sway over all evil flying creatures, even among the different layers of the Abyss.
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Diabolic chains was an arcane evocation spell that flung raw hellfire drawn from the heart of Avernus, conjuring three magmatic chains that hurled their targets backward and left a burning trail behind them. #dnd

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Artist: David Rene Christensen

Source: Jeremy Crawford (November 17, 2020). Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 145. ISBN 978-0786967025.

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A bullywug spellcaster (bullywitch?) with a frog.

Some bullywugs possessed greater intelligence than their kin and were able to cast spells.
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The Mountain Campaigns were a series of Ravenian military campaigns against the raiders of the Earthfast Mountains, who had terrorized the northern farmlands for four decades.
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23 Years Ago: Underdark was released.

This 3.5e accessory introduced new classes, spells, monsters and also provided extensive lore on the geography & residents of the Underdark.
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The mechanics they pioneered directly laid the groundwork for later franchises like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age.

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The #dnd games BioWare gave us brought Faerûn to life with so much heart, depth, and unforgettable storytelling.

The first two Baldur’s Gate games are universally regarded as masterpieces and are widely credited with revitalizing the cRPG genre in the late 1990s/early 2000s.

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The Company of the Black Snake was an adventuring group based around Waterdeep in the first half of the 13th century DR. They were well known for their battle prowess, with detailed and organized formations.
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Asblan the Bold was a wizard of Ordulin who met his end in an aerial spell battle against Orcrommor the Mighty. They hurled dozens of meteor swarms at one another over the rooftops until both perished, taking a good deal of the city below with them.
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Artist: Steve Ellis

Source: Sean K. Reynolds (January 2006). “Creature Catalog IV: Campaign Classics”. In Erik Mona ed. Dragon #339 (Paizo Publishing, LLC), p. 54.

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Dusanu, also known as rot fiends, were yellowish fungal colonies that infected living creatures with a wasting disease and then animated their skeletons, leaving them frequently mistaken for undead.
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Matter manipulation was a psionic power that weakened materials by reducing their physical integrity, used by creatures such as arcanaloths, and beljuril dragons. The power was a necessary component for the construction of psion killer crystal golems
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Source: ProFantasy Software Ltd. (1999). Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas. TSR, Inc.

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Eltabbar was the second-largest city of Thay. A haven for Red Wizards and bore a dark secret that predated the founding of the magocracy. One unique law in Eltabbar, was the prohibition of any maps that detailed the layout of the city.
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