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Legend
Dragon Magazine Issue 254: December 1998
part 7/8
Rogues Gallery: Only a single character detailed here this month, one Greendale Meadowfield. Interestingly, he's an actual PC, still active, who worked his way up to name level in the Raven's Bluff living campaign. That's a real change from all the novel ones. This does mean that the adventures he's had aren't that weird though, because they're all module ones, but he does have a niiiiiice selection of magical items that gives him a negative armor class and some superhuman stats. And of course, there's plenty of attention paid to his personality. So this is an interesting experiment that's good for a change, but would probably get old fast if repeated. Now let's hope they move out of the forgotten realms next time. They've been a little too heavy on Toril characters lately.
The ecology of the cyclopskin: Another unsophisticated monstrous humanoid this month. However, unlike ghouls, Cyclopskin don't have any real hidden society. They just is what they is, and does what they does, serving as a mid-range link on the dumb marauding humanoid food chain. They kick goblins, orcs, and the like around, and get kicked around in turn by the larger giant races such as hill giants and full cyclopses. And kick each other around quite a bit as well. It's a hard life when the only way you know to exert power over others is bullying. This is an amusing ecology to read, but you wouldn't want to be them, or spend time around them. Best just to kill them. There's no great insights we can use to improve our own lives here.
Aaron Williams manages to sneak in a floyd reference to dragonmirth. The KotDT crew have an attack of metagaming.
part 7/8
Rogues Gallery: Only a single character detailed here this month, one Greendale Meadowfield. Interestingly, he's an actual PC, still active, who worked his way up to name level in the Raven's Bluff living campaign. That's a real change from all the novel ones. This does mean that the adventures he's had aren't that weird though, because they're all module ones, but he does have a niiiiiice selection of magical items that gives him a negative armor class and some superhuman stats. And of course, there's plenty of attention paid to his personality. So this is an interesting experiment that's good for a change, but would probably get old fast if repeated. Now let's hope they move out of the forgotten realms next time. They've been a little too heavy on Toril characters lately.
The ecology of the cyclopskin: Another unsophisticated monstrous humanoid this month. However, unlike ghouls, Cyclopskin don't have any real hidden society. They just is what they is, and does what they does, serving as a mid-range link on the dumb marauding humanoid food chain. They kick goblins, orcs, and the like around, and get kicked around in turn by the larger giant races such as hill giants and full cyclopses. And kick each other around quite a bit as well. It's a hard life when the only way you know to exert power over others is bullying. This is an amusing ecology to read, but you wouldn't want to be them, or spend time around them. Best just to kill them. There's no great insights we can use to improve our own lives here.
Aaron Williams manages to sneak in a floyd reference to dragonmirth. The KotDT crew have an attack of metagaming.