Dragon #328 - February 2005

Barendd Nobeard · Jan 12, 2005

Anyone else get this issue yet? I just got it today--it seems that I now get them very quickly (compared to last year). I was at my FLGS a few days ago and didn't see it there yet.

Contents:

Paragons of the Kindred (4 new PrC for nonhuman paragons of faith)
Dwarves at War
Nobody's Perfect (new Flaws)
Ecology of the Will-o'-Wisp
New Bard Spells (tagged with "no more excuses!" (on the cover) and "Cool bard spells. No, really" in the ToC)
Elf Magic
New PC Race (Saurian Shifters)
&c., &c.

takasi · Jan 12, 2005

Can you tell us what the preview is for 329? Anything in 328 that's useful for an Eberron campaign? Is Eberron mentioned at all?

IronWolf · Jan 13, 2005

I received mine yesterday!

MarkAHart · Jan 13, 2005

March (Dragon #329) preview includes:

The Legacy of Beowulf
The Petit Tarrasque (And Other Stories)
Mesopotamian Mythos
Demonomicon of Iggwilf: Pazuzu

The only mention of Eberron I saw was in the preview section for next issue: "A Novel Approach: Eberron's Marked for Death."

Psion · Jan 13, 2005

Barendd Nobeard said:
Nobody's Perfect (new Flaws)

Ug. Hate flaws.

Barendd Nobeard · Jan 13, 2005

Oh, and just FYI, the "Elf Magic" article is about magic items.

Saeviomagy · Jan 13, 2005

Psion said:
Ug. Hate flaws.

Well, I like them.

Although recently some of the flaws in dragon have been far, far too harsh, and giving people more feats is having some slightly unusual (although not entirely adverse) effects (namely people are getting into PrC's easier)

Actually, I've been toying with the idea that some other systems use, where a flaw doesn't give an always-one benefit. Instead, every time your flaw kicks in (actually causes trouble - so if you had a -4 to a skill, you'd have to fail BECAUSE of that -4), you get an action point.

Then I can just let people make up whatever flaws they want.

cignus_pfaccari · Jan 13, 2005

IronWolf said:
I received mine yesterday!

Oh, good. That means mine should be here tomorrow or Friday. Yay!

Any word on what the Monk Class Act was?

Brad

takasi · Jan 13, 2005

MarkAHart said:
March (Dragon #329) preview includes:

The Legacy of Beowulf
The Petit Tarrasque (And Other Stories)
Mesopotamian Mythos
Demonomicon of Iggwilf: Pazuzu

The only mention of Eberron I saw was in the preview section for next issue: "A Novel Approach: Eberron's Marked for Death."

Marked for Death is cool, but it stinks that there's nothing else. What else is included? Is there another ecology or PC race article?

Also, what's the miniatures article for 328?