Dragon #354

Shazman · Mar 19, 2007

Thank you very much hong. The fire one appeals to me, the other two seem a bit too wonky for my tastes. It definitely adds some flavor to the ninja, though

Nightfall · Mar 19, 2007

dargoth3 said:
How many pages is the Volo's Guide: Cormanthor: War Amidst the Trees article?

I believe it was 5. It had a LOT of info covering War of the Spider Queen (module), and the Scourging of Shadow module, War of the Spider Queen novel series, Final Gate Series and Blackstaff as well as sources.

Hong and Shazam,

The only change I recall in the article was for the water ninja. The fog can add contact or inhaled poisons, not acid. Otherwise, Hong is right.

jasin · Mar 19, 2007

Nightfall said:
The only change I recall in the article was for the water ninja. The fog can add contact or inhaled poisons, not acid. Otherwise, Hong is right.

FWIW, I like that change.

Mouseferatu · Mar 19, 2007

hong said:

Great. Now all I can think of is Bit, from the movie Tron.

"Yes."

AdmundfortGeographer · Mar 19, 2007

hong said:
You know, the image of modrons as floating, glowing regular, uniform and stellated polyhedra appeals to me much more than having them with limbs and eyes sticking out. Those are just irretrievably cartoony.

I think I'm starting to prefer them as well. Much more the embodiment of lawfulness than with gangly-drawn appendages.

Kaodi · Mar 20, 2007

The article on the Elder is enough to make me want to go out and expend some of my almost depleted resources on this issue, though for me it is not because I want to build a recreation of Highlander. That stuff on the Elder looks like it would work great with the Sakah in Eberron.

hong · Mar 20, 2007

Eric Anondson said:
I think I'm starting to prefer them as well. Much more the embodiment of lawfulness than with gangly-drawn appendages.

Indeed. See, this is the sort of thing I can imagine modrons would be down with:

248-dimensional maths puzzle solved

Zaukrie · Mar 20, 2007

Putting aside my feelings for the art (I'm not sure I like either visual version of the modrons), that was a great article. Really, really well written and great stories. It inspired me to use them in some way (if I ever get back to running a real campaign).

I also enjoyed the Kopru article - though I really don't like that style of art. I vastly prefer the more "realistic" art, which is 1 reason I probably won't be buying the compilation of ecology articles.

I haven't read much of the rest yet, as I just got the issue last night, but it appears to be another high quality production.