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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ripzerai" data-source="post: 3239480" data-attributes="member: 38324">The Dragonlance and Ravenloft articles are two of the strongest ones in that issue, I think, especially used together (because the PCs can meet young, uncorrupted Lord Soth in precataclysmic Istar, redeeming a cursed kender, then later on meet the magical Blessed Knight version of him from Ravenloft asking them to help redeem an entire domain). The others would require more work to tie them together, and their hooks didn't seem as vivid (finding a missing sword beneath Irongate and chasing off khaasta or simpathetics in Ecstasy). I haven't read the Dark Sun or Kara-Tur articles very closely yet - my eyes glazed over a bit. The phoenix feathers and dao slavers in the Al-Qadim article are pretty awesome, though, I must admit.And I did very much like the Irongate and Ecstasy articles. The portrait of Irongate was beautiful, and using Lazz to do the cartography for a Planescape article is nothing but appropriate. It's just that, as they were finally edited and published, the hooks didn't seem as strong as in the Ravenloft-Dragonlance (from now on I'm considering it to be one single adventure, regardless of designer intent) and Al-Qadim articles.About the simpathetics - I notice they're listed as NE (in 2e they were CE), but their attack still turns people CE. Is that a typo? I actually like them better NE, since the 2e Fiend Folio Appendix had them as CE creatures from Maladomini, and the Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix II had them as spawn of the Abyss. Making them NE and from the Lower Planes in general seems a good compromise.</blockquote>

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