thalmin
Retired game store owner
Just got in Dragon Magazine #321 (Planar Adventures). Here is a list of the contents:
The Infused - a Heavenly Prestige Class. Actually 2 prestige classes, the Infused Warrior, and the Infused Spellcaster. Share your soul with a particular celestial.
Under Command - Magic Items in D&D Miniatures: Great Power in a Little Package. Making magic items for miniatures combat, with point costs relating to cost of figure.
The Way of the Gun - Gunpowder Weapons for D&D. Eight pages on gunpowder weapons and attachments, with optional rules on pricing, damage, and misfires.
Planar Dragons - Dragons of the Outer Planes. Five NEW dragons, each given 2 pages, including the Adamantine Dragon (NG) breathes a line of searing white-hot fire OR breathes a cone of hold monster, Arboreal Dragon (CG) breathes a cone of razor-sharp thorns, Axial Dragon (LN) breathes a cone of force, Beast Dragon (NG or CG) breathes a cone of cold and electricity, Concordant Dragon (N) breathes a line of antithetical energy.
Silicon Sorcery - The Temple of Elemental Evil: Big Fish in a Tainted Pond. Four pages about the computer game. Details 3 of the creatures: Giant Crayfish, Gaint Gar, and the Giant Tick.
The Limitless Light - A Tour of the Plane of Radiance. Details about the plane in opposition to the Plane of Shadow. Highlights include the Rainbow Bridge, Fixed and Drifting Islands, Radiant Clouds, and Chromatic Tornadoes.
Creatures of Brilliance - Inhabitants of the Plane of Radiance. Includes the Glimmerfolk, Prismfly Swarm, Radiant Creatures as exemplified by the Radiant Giant Eagle, and the Rainbow Dweller.
Faiths of Faerun - Arvoreen's Keepers: Looking Out for the Little Guy. Info on this halfling diety, plus 2 related prestige classes: Arvoreen's Keeper for spellcasters, and Arvoreen's Warder.
Elminster's Guide to the Realms - Nurneene's Marvelous Masks. An interesting shoppe in Waterdeep.
Champions of Fate - Prestige Classes of Al-qadim. Covers the Barber (a healer), Corsair (not just a pirate), Holy Slayer (assassins), Mamluk (warrior/scholar).
Then we have the regular Wizards Workshop columns:
Dungeoncraft - Characterization, Part 2: One DM, One Million Characters. How to portray many different npc's.
DM's Toolbox - Defining Irony in D&D: Isn't It Ironic? How and when to use it in the game.
Sage Advice - Weapons, Skills, Spells, and Combat.
All capped off with a great Dork Tower comic, a Nodwick and a couple of Zogonias.
(Dragon 322 and Dungeon 113 previews follow in later posts #4 & #8)
The Infused - a Heavenly Prestige Class. Actually 2 prestige classes, the Infused Warrior, and the Infused Spellcaster. Share your soul with a particular celestial.
Under Command - Magic Items in D&D Miniatures: Great Power in a Little Package. Making magic items for miniatures combat, with point costs relating to cost of figure.
The Way of the Gun - Gunpowder Weapons for D&D. Eight pages on gunpowder weapons and attachments, with optional rules on pricing, damage, and misfires.
Planar Dragons - Dragons of the Outer Planes. Five NEW dragons, each given 2 pages, including the Adamantine Dragon (NG) breathes a line of searing white-hot fire OR breathes a cone of hold monster, Arboreal Dragon (CG) breathes a cone of razor-sharp thorns, Axial Dragon (LN) breathes a cone of force, Beast Dragon (NG or CG) breathes a cone of cold and electricity, Concordant Dragon (N) breathes a line of antithetical energy.
Silicon Sorcery - The Temple of Elemental Evil: Big Fish in a Tainted Pond. Four pages about the computer game. Details 3 of the creatures: Giant Crayfish, Gaint Gar, and the Giant Tick.
The Limitless Light - A Tour of the Plane of Radiance. Details about the plane in opposition to the Plane of Shadow. Highlights include the Rainbow Bridge, Fixed and Drifting Islands, Radiant Clouds, and Chromatic Tornadoes.
Creatures of Brilliance - Inhabitants of the Plane of Radiance. Includes the Glimmerfolk, Prismfly Swarm, Radiant Creatures as exemplified by the Radiant Giant Eagle, and the Rainbow Dweller.
Faiths of Faerun - Arvoreen's Keepers: Looking Out for the Little Guy. Info on this halfling diety, plus 2 related prestige classes: Arvoreen's Keeper for spellcasters, and Arvoreen's Warder.
Elminster's Guide to the Realms - Nurneene's Marvelous Masks. An interesting shoppe in Waterdeep.
Champions of Fate - Prestige Classes of Al-qadim. Covers the Barber (a healer), Corsair (not just a pirate), Holy Slayer (assassins), Mamluk (warrior/scholar).
Then we have the regular Wizards Workshop columns:
Dungeoncraft - Characterization, Part 2: One DM, One Million Characters. How to portray many different npc's.
DM's Toolbox - Defining Irony in D&D: Isn't It Ironic? How and when to use it in the game.
Sage Advice - Weapons, Skills, Spells, and Combat.
All capped off with a great Dork Tower comic, a Nodwick and a couple of Zogonias.
(Dragon 322 and Dungeon 113 previews follow in later posts #4 & #8)
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