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Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flexor the Mighty!" data-source="post: 700197" data-attributes="member: 1013"><p>I really liked the magazine in the 1980's, and a little way into the 1990's.  It was at it's peak during the Ares years.  I had something I could use EVERY month for my Marvel Superheroes game.   Add in the occasional Gamma World or Star Trek article and I was set.   I fondly remember a long article about how to run a Star Trek campaign back when,  I really loved stuff like that.  That particular article wan't even in Ares.  It was just one of the articles.  The Ecology of the Stirge, the gemstone article that I still use every session, etc.   I started reading Dragon again with 287...and the increasingly heavy use of themes got very annoying.   Each month the mag was an ad for the new Wizards book, and since I had no plans on buying stuff like the Stronghold Builders book or the new FR Drow module I liked each issue less and less.  But the promise of something good in the LGJ kept me buying, some of it blew IMO.  More Prestige classes...ugh.   But on the other hand you had the Spinecastle article, the index for the LGG, the two articles on Death Knights, and some other stuff that I found useful.  Now that is gone.  It's in Dungeon so I have to pay for a bunch of modules I will never run and some D20 mini games I could care less about.    So I'm probably done with both mags.   Don't get me started on the covers...man they used to be great!</p></blockquote><p></p>

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