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6620_17739_Chp1.indd20_17739_Chp1.indd 1 11/7/05/7/05 11:18:39:18:39 PPMM CREDITS DESIGNERS ART DIRECTOR D&D BRUCE R. CORDELL, DAWN MURIN JENNIFER CLARKE WILKES, JD WIKER COVER ARTIST DEVELOPMENT TEAM BEN THOMPSON MICHAEL DONAIS, ANDREW J. FINCH, DAVID NOONAN INTERIOR ARTISTS EDITORS STEVEN BELLEDIN, MATT CAVOTTA, CHRIS THOMASSON, CINDI RICE, CHRIS SIMS MITCH COTIE, ED COX, WAYNE ENGLAND, DAVID HUDNUT, DANA KNUTSON, DOUG MANAGING EDITOR KOVACS, TODD LOCKWOOD, CHUCK LUKACS, KIM MOHAN JIM NELSON, WILLIAM O’CONNOR, MICHAEL PHILLIPPI, STEVE PRESCOTT, WAYNE REYNOLDS, DESIGN MANAGER RON SPENCER, STEPHEN TAPPIN CHRISTOPHER PERKINS GRAPHIC DESIGNER DEVELOPMENT MANAGER DEE BARNETT, TRISH YOCHUM JESSE DECKER SENIOR ART DIRECTOR RPG CARTOGRAPHER STACY LONGSTREET DENNIS KAUTH DIRECTOR OF RPG R&D GRAPHIC PRODUCTION SPECIALIST BILL SLAVICSEK ERIN DORRIES PRODUCTION MANAGERS IMAGE TECHNICIAN JOSHUA C.J. 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Visit our website at www.wizards.com/dnd 6620_17739_Chp1.indd20_17739_Chp1.indd 2 11/7/05/7/05 11:18:44:18:44 PPMM Heat Endurance . .50 Dinosaur . .147 Improved Heat Endurance . .50 Protoceratops . .147 Contents Judged by Aurifar . .50 Diprotodon . .148 Introduction . .4 Light of Aurifar . .51 Dire Animal . .149 The Waste in Your Game . .4 Pharaoh’s Fist . .51 Dire Hippopotamus . .149 How to Use This Book . .4 Priest of the Waste . .51 Dire Jackal . 150 Chapter 1: The Waste . .5 Rattlesnake Strike . .51 Dire Puma . 150 Formation of a Waste . .5 Sand Camoufl age . .51 Dire Tortoise . 151 Wilderness Waste Environments . .7 Sand Dancer . .52 Dire Vulture . 152 Dungeons and Cavern Complexes . .9 Sand Snare . .52 Dragon, Sand . 152 Extraplanar Wastes . .11 Sand Spinner . .52 Dry Lich . 155 Sandskimmer . .52 Dune Hag . 158 Natural Waste Hazards . .12 CONTENTS Heat Dangers . .12 Scorpion’s Grasp . .52 Dunewinder . 159 TABLE OF Dehydration . .15 Scorpion’s Instincts . .53 Dustblight . 160 Sand and Wind . .15 Scorpion’s Resolve . .53 Dustform Creature . .161 Sun Dangers . .18 Scorpion’s Sense . .53 Dust Twister . .162 Other Dangers . .19 Searing Spell [Metamagic] . .53 Forlorn Husk . .163 Supernatural Waste Hazards . .20 Serpent Fang . .53 Giant Banded Lizard . 164 Black Sand . .20 Touchstone . .53 Half-Janni . .165 Devil Dunes . .20 Touchstone Sites . .54 Ironthorn . 166 Disease . .21 Shrine at Kahar (EL 3) . .54 Lycanthrope . .167 Fey Oases . .21 Sunken City of Pazar (EL 4) . .55 Werecrocodile . .167 Flamestorms . .21 Healing Waters of Abu-Ima (EL 5) . .55 Marruspawn . 168 Flaywind . .21 Pyramid of Amun-Re (EL 6) . .56 Marrulurk . 170 Furnace Wind . .22 Crypt of Badr Al-Mosak (EL 7) . .56 Marrusault . 171 Leech Salt Flats . .22 City of the Dead (EL 7) . .56 Marrutact . 171 Mirror Sand . .23 Salt Statuary (EL 7) . .58 Marruspawn Abomination . 173 Moondust . .23 Eternal Breath of Seneferu (EL 8) . .58 Mephit . .175 Phantom Cities . .23 Well of Al-Sharaz (EL 8) . .59 Glass Mephit . .175 Phantom Voices . .24 Skysea (EL 9) . .60 Sulfur Mephit . .176 Plains of Glass . .24 Vale of Dead Trees (EL 9) . .60 Mirage Mullah . 177 Poison . .24 Temple of Three (EL 10) . .62 Ooze . 178 Red Seas . .25 Womb of Kikanuti (EL 10) . .62 Brine Ooze . 178 Shadowsand . .25 Dusty Conclave (EL 12) . .63 Lava Ooze . 178 Shapesand . .25 Blue Dragons’ Graveyard (EL 17) . .64 Porcupine Cactus . 179 Saguaro Sentinel . 181 Slipsand . .25 Chapter 3: Prestige Classes . .65 Sand Golem . 182 Slumber Sand . .26 Picking a Prestige Class . .65 Sand Hunter . 183 Softsand . .26 Ashworm Dragoon . .66 Scarab Swarm, Death . 184 Wailing Waste . .26 Lord of Tides . ..