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Let me just say how glad I am that you post your updates on multiple sites. It really helped this last week. :)

Wait, ACTUAL Portable Holes? I can't believe I forgot about this. Or that I never played a 3rd ed character with this item.

I suspect that even most players who use Charisma as a dump stat imagine their characters as pretty average-looking, even attractive. They just have enough social weaknesses to make up for it. Hence all the rude barbarians, aloof mages, naive monks, and so on.

Sorry I haven't added any comments lately, unreason. I still read and appreciate this herculean effort, but I've been busy and stressed from work, planning a move, upcoming Gen Con plans, and getting my books revised. I don't remember being too impressed with this issue. It didn't help that I...

Yeah, it's hard to imagine a "movies for gamers" list these days before the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which probably still sets the standard. The Avengers would be another good choice for portraying the party of adventurers meeting and learning to work as a group, though it's for a different...

The problem with that theory, though, is that the correlation between gamers dedicated enough to read Dragon and people who know the lyrics to NSync or Brittney Spears well enough to get the parody is pretty small.

Of course, that reminds me of one of the sillier 3rd ed rules. First, how many creatures even have Swallow Whole as an option, and second, that if you carve a gaping hole in their chests to escape, "muscular action" fixes it immediately. Even for something like a T-Rex! I understand why they...

There we go! Do you think the fiction would have worked better if we saw the Rogue's Gallery version of the characters first?

What happened to part 4? Also, it looks like the Potion of Spotlessness description cut off mid-sentence.

My DM used that in our college campaign, though we were in 3rd Ed by that point. Can't entirely say it went over well.

I've got the hard copy of the issue dug out, so if you have any questions about missing pages, let me know.

I have to wonder when Durkon will try to Speak with Dead or even Raise some of them. Mind you, an epic level necromancy spell probably wouldn't leave much evidence, even to one of its victims with maxed out Spellcraft, but at least it would up the defenses again. As for the pacing, I have to...

Hmm, interesting. I never really thought about how the "dungeonpunk" aesthetic affected the game. Obviously, the art can do help define a genre or setting (Planescape being the best example of this,) but except for maybe Eberron, I don't really see that much of it in 3rd ed. How do you think it...

Oh yeah, here we go. I've been waiting for this. I don't suppose you can list your opinions in another manner here and for future issues? Like maybe do a column of Rule Change My Opinion Or throw your opinion in bold and parentheses after each change? I couldn't track which things...

Ha! I actually tried that once. The characters were the subject a news investigation by elves, who do ballads instead of reports. I even had to improv a recap once when the characters completely lost track of the plot. It even rhymed! ...mostly. For the record, all of this was for Toon...

And let me tell you these things have been a huge money pit for me, but one I don't regret. As someone who never cared about painting minis, or the lead wars, or whatnot, these little colored bits of plastic sealed the deal for me. Nothing like tossing a chain golem or something on the board for...

Is somebody a Linkara fan? Or just a reader of bad comics? You're right; this does sound like a fun article. And I love the names: a smoke-breathing monster called Fumarandi and vomiting toad called Retchenbeast are perfect.

This is one of my favorite articles, too, and definitely the one I used the most in my games from the pre-3rd edition issues. I never used the exact setting specified here, but I love juxtapositions of different settings and genres, and I ended up using the Sheens in both of my last campaigns...

She must have learned the "Protection From Own Clothes" spell then. That one's bound to be a hit. She can even share it with all the fighters who insist on sticking spikes everywhere on their armor.

See, I liked this lovely lady's style, but then I go for the goth and punk looks in real life. I guess, hey, if you're a wizard and aren't expected to wear armor anyway, plus you have magic for all your environmental protection needs, why not go crazy with the clothes? Edit: That said, upon...