Editing Environment Book Series (section)

==Sandstorm==
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''Sandstorm'' focuses on badlands, desert, and wastelands. Unlike Frostburn, there's not that much fire or extraplanar material.  On the crunch side, the book adds a bunch of sand based stuff and heat themed abilities that focus on impeding and exhausting enemies instead of just making them burn. Refreshingly, Sandstorm doesn't focus much on the pseudo-Egyptian pyramids that seem to dominate "desert" adventures.

Sandstorm is home to the following new PC races:
* [[Dwarf]]: Badlands subrace
* [[Elf]]: Painted subrace
* [[Half-Orc]]: Scablands subrace
* [[Asherati]]
* [[Bhuka]]

It's also home to the following new monsters:
* Ashen Husk: Undead created from those who died of thirst in the desert.
* [[Asherati]]
* Ashworm: Desert-dwelling cousin of the purple worm.
* [[Bhuka]]
* Camelopardel: A magical hybrid of giraffe and panther, a benevolent creature that can be thought of as the desert [[unicorn]].
* Chekryan: Mutated, psionic descendants of giant desert [[scorpion]]s.
* Crawling Apocalypse: Gargantuan undead sand-swimming mummified octopuses, created as weapons of war in an ancient war.
* [[Crucian]]: Armor-plated desert-dwelling humanoids. Also a PC race.
* Cursed Cold One (Gelun): Cursed undead that require so much warmth that only the heat of the desert day gives them respite from being frozen solid in blocks of ice.
* Desert Devil (Araton): A strain of [[devil]] surrounded by a perpetual personal sandstorm that constantly flays them to the bone, with only their regeneration keeping them alive.
* [[Dinosaur]]: Protoceratops
* Diprotodon: A giant marsupial, and a distant ancestor/cousin of the wombat.
* Dire Animal: Dire Hippo, Dire Jackal, Dire Puma, Dire Tortoise, Dire Vulture
* [[Dragon]], Sand: Adapted into 4e as the [[Chromatic Dragon|Brown Dragon]].
* Dry Lich: A desert-spreading [[cleric]]al or [[druid]]ic [[lich]] variant.
* Dune Hag: A [[hag]] native to the deserts, a cousin of the more well-known Annis Hag.
* Dunewinder: Giant predatory armor-plated worms, believed to be desert-dwelling cousins of the [[remorhaz]].
* Dustblight: Grotesque humanoid aberrations that feel on blood.
* Dustform Creature: Unique construct/undead hybrids created from the dust of long-decomposed creatures.
* Dust Twister: A desert-dwelling [[elemental]] of sand and wind, said to be the spawn of a [[jann]] and an air elemental.
* Forlorn Husk: Another undead monster created from those who died of thirst whilst lost in the desert.
* Giant Banded Lizard: An enormous predatory lizard. Basically an adaptation of the titular B-movie monster from "The Giant Gila Monster".
* Half-Janni: A template representing the hybrid offspring of mortals with the desert-dwelling lesser [[genie]]s known as [[jann]].
* Ironthorn: A predatory tree that feeds by impaling creatrues on its myriad lethal thorns.
* [[Therianthrope|Lycanthrope, Werecrocodile]]
* Marruspawn: Jackal-like humanoids created by the long-extinct culture/race known as the Marru, who used [[fleshcrafting]] to engineer living weapons to fight the bloody internecine wars that ultimately destroyed them.
* [[Mephit]]: Glass, Sulfur
* Mirage Mullah: [[Fey]] guardians of desert oases, renown for their cruelty.
* [[Ooze]]: Brine, Lava
* Porcupine Cactus: Cacti that explode in deadly showers of seeds and thorns when disturbed.
* Saguaro Sentinel: The [[treant]] of the desert, an enormous and sapient self-propelled cactus.
* Sand [[Golem]]
* Sand Hunter: Bizarre magical beasts that resemble a hybrid of lizard and jackal, with each pack having a shared group consciousness.
* Scarab Swarm, Death: A swarm of undead, flesh-eating scarab beetles.
* Scorpion Swarm
* [[Sphinx]]: Canisphinx, Crocosphinx, Saurosphinx, Threskisphinx
* Thunderbird: An enormous bird with elemental control over storms.
* [[Troll]], Wasteland
* Tumbling Mound: A desert-dwelling variant of the [[Shambling Mound]], seemingly made up of dried brush (or "tumbleweed").
* Waste Crawler (Anhydrut): An [[Inevitable]] resembling a cross between a scorpion and a flame-throwing tank that exists to keep [[mage]]s from destroying the deserts.
* Animals: Camel (Dromedary, Two-Humped, War), Hippopotamus, Horned Lizard, Jackal, Serval (Savannah Wildcat), Vulture
* Vermin: Brine Swimmer, Giant Ant Lion, Giant Termite