[Dragon] Differences Now and Then?

[KDLadage]

WizarDru: have you had a chance to check THIS thread out?

 

[BiggusGeekus@Work]

I want GENERIC, not WORLD-SPECIFIC material. I don't want more "economy of the Realms" - I do want "simulating economies." I don't want "NPCs of the Realms" - I want "how to run generic NPCs." I certainly don't want fiction. This is a fantasy GAMING magazine, not a fantasy FICTION magazine. There can be fiction but it should be *directly* tied to the gaming (e.g., "Ecology of..." is good but not "Bob's Adventures in Faerun").

How would you feel about both?

That is to say, an article about a tavern in Faerun with notes on how to integrate it into a core rules campaign?

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Well that's easy. Change the Barkeep from a 26th level Fighter to a low level commoner. The serving wench should be dropped to a 1st level commoner from a half dragon/half celestial 15th level rogue.

 

[Victim]

No, this is FR. There are no fighters, rogues, barbarians, monks, etc above level 12 or so. Everyone important is a spell caster of some type.

 

[WizarDru]

WizarDru: have you had a chance to check THIS thread out?

I had not, in point of fact. I'll go there now. Danke.

 

[Dr. NRG]

It all depends on when "then" is. The magazine has gone through up cycles and down cycles as owners, editors, and managers changed.

NRG

 

[Utrecht]

This thread reminds me of many of the discussions that friends and I have - Remember when Saturday Night Live was funny.....


I do not think that SNL is any less funny now than it was back in the 70s - it is just that we remember the good stuff and forget the bad.

The same seems to be the case for Dragon - while there is noise in the stuff now, there was noise in the "golden age" - neither one seems to be terribly better or worse than the other........