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<blockquote data-quote="Echohawk" data-source="post: 6046347" data-attributes="member: 9849"><p>Some observations after reading through this month's release of Dragon:</p><p></p><p>WotC has decided to switch the format of the electronic version of Dragon and Dungeon away from a series of individual articles and back to a once per month PDF release. This was done last month as an experiment, and in this month's editorial, it is confirmed as their new release format. Actually "back" to a once per month PDF release is misleading. For a while there was a monthly compilation in addition to the release of individual articles, but this is the first time the format has been single issue PDF <em>only</em>.</p><p></p><p>The developers/editors are now thinking of 4th Edition in the past tense. The first line of an insert in the succubus article reads: "In the 4th Edition D&D game, the gray line between demons and devils was more clearly defined". Despite this, there is a reasonable amount of new 4th edition crunch in the issue: seven new magic items, three new monsters, one NPC stat block, a new curse and a new ritual.</p><p></p><p>Most of the articles are edition neutral, or have a small amount of 4th Edition content. Only two articles (the Ecology of the Succubus and a magic item article) have a substantial amount of 4e crunch, and of those, the succubus article also has a lot of fluff on succubi, albeit fluff largely about their place in the 4e cosmology.</p><p></p><p>After a Planescape (or at least planar-heavy) issue, the last page teases new Greyhawk and Mystara content for December: <em>Backdrop: Hochoch</em> and <em>Ye Olde Creature Catalogue</em> which promises the return of the decapus, magen, rhagodessa, and thoul. Based on recent Dragon/Dungeon content, there is clearly a move back towards wider support for campaign settings as well as rules editions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Echohawk, post: 6046347, member: 9849"] Some observations after reading through this month's release of Dragon: WotC has decided to switch the format of the electronic version of Dragon and Dungeon away from a series of individual articles and back to a once per month PDF release. This was done last month as an experiment, and in this month's editorial, it is confirmed as their new release format. Actually "back" to a once per month PDF release is misleading. For a while there was a monthly compilation in addition to the release of individual articles, but this is the first time the format has been single issue PDF [i]only[/i]. The developers/editors are now thinking of 4th Edition in the past tense. The first line of an insert in the succubus article reads: "In the 4th Edition D&D game, the gray line between demons and devils was more clearly defined". Despite this, there is a reasonable amount of new 4th edition crunch in the issue: seven new magic items, three new monsters, one NPC stat block, a new curse and a new ritual. Most of the articles are edition neutral, or have a small amount of 4th Edition content. Only two articles (the Ecology of the Succubus and a magic item article) have a substantial amount of 4e crunch, and of those, the succubus article also has a lot of fluff on succubi, albeit fluff largely about their place in the 4e cosmology. After a Planescape (or at least planar-heavy) issue, the last page teases new Greyhawk and Mystara content for December: [i]Backdrop: Hochoch[/i] and [i]Ye Olde Creature Catalogue[/i] which promises the return of the decapus, magen, rhagodessa, and thoul. Based on recent Dragon/Dungeon content, there is clearly a move back towards wider support for campaign settings as well as rules editions. [/QUOTE]
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