Dragon Compendium Volume 2

[diaglo]

it has to be better than the first one.

The Jester???

 

[Psion]

The Jester???

A jester?
A jester?
A funny idea, a jester.
No butcher, no baker, no candlestick maker,
and me with the look of a fine undertaker
impressed her as a jester?

But where was I to learn any comical turn?
It was not in a book on a shelf.
No teacher to take me, to mold me and make me
a merryman, fool or an elf.

But I'm proud to recall
that in no time at all,
with no other recourses but my own resources,
with firm application and determination...
I made a fool of myself!"

 

[Alzrius]

What I would give to see a DC2...

 

[JoeGKushner]

Depends on what's in it.

Based on the heavy amount of 3.0/3.5 material in DC 1, no, I'm in no hurry.

Now if we could get a list of proposed articles that were going into said book, that might change my mind.

 

[BOZ]

sure, why not.

 

[Seeker95]

Based on the heavy amount of 3.0/3.5 material in DC 1, no, I'm in no hurry.

What would you expect to be in a Dragon Compendium?
All the material is updated to 3.5 rules.

 

[schporto]

What would you expect to be in a Dragon Compendium?
All the material is updated to 3.5 rules.

But a whole lot of it seemed to be from about issue 275 on. There were some older articles but those seemed mostly on 'ideas', not crunch.
I'd like to see some of the old stuff converted from AD&D to 3.5. But that is my opinion.
-cpd

 

[JoeGKushner]

But a whole lot of it seemed to be from about issue 275 on. There were some older articles but those seemed mostly on 'ideas', not crunch.
I'd like to see some of the old stuff converted from AD&D to 3.5. But that is my opinion.
-cpd

Bingo.

The material in the 1st book was way too recent with hardly any 'classic' material and some of that which was updated was... of questionable value. And the editing was about as good as a WoTC book so that wasn't too good. And the second printing carried over those errors. Bad Piazo.

 

[diaglo]

Bingo.

The material in the 1st book was way too recent with hardly any 'classic' material and some of that which was updated was... of questionable value. And the editing was about as good as a WoTC book so that wasn't too good. And the second printing carried over those errors. Bad Piazo.

ditto, ditto, ditto.

 

[Psion]

The material in the 1st book was way too recent with hardly any 'classic' material and some of that which was updated was... of questionable value. And the editing was about as good as a WoTC book so that wasn't too good. And the second printing carried over those errors. Bad Piazo.

I do agree they should have done more conversions of older stuff. I disagree that its necessarily a problem to collect recent material.

Quite frankly, I could see individual issues of Dragon being of use to to players more than a GM. A player might find a single article interesting and approach the DM to use it, but I find that as a DM, a collected volume makes it more likely the content will be used that if I have to try to recall which of a scattered volume of back issues had that one article I was looking for. (The same goes for the spell compendium and spells scattered through various supplements.)

That said, I do agree that for DC2, I am really interested in seeing more converted old material.