Dragon Magazine: Monster Ecologies to be released!

[Angel Tarragon]

Okay, let's put this back into perspective. The Warhammer books are books, which are printed on higher quality material, and hardcover books at that. WotC adventures have recently gone up to $15 and I think we can agree 50 cents a page is not what you would expect to pay for most RPG products.

If the ecologies were a $20 softcover I would not complain. A $20 softcover is pretty reasonable. I would pay $25 for a softcover. But apparently it is a magazine, printed on magazine paper, with color runs and pages coming loose or warping from being held or bent. It's the material, not the price, that I'm complaining about.

See this: (from here)

Originally by JoshuaFrost
Dragon: Monster Ecologies

This special issue of Dragon magazine contains 128 advertising-free pages of the best ecology articles from the past three years. Drawing from the ongoing and popular "Monster Ecologies" series, this giant collection features new rules, art, details, and encounters for some of the most fearsome and fantastic monsters in the history of Dungeons & Dragons.

Dragon: Monster Ecologies contains:
Ecology of the Kobold
Ecology of the Dracolich
Ecology of the Spawn of Kyuss
Ecology of the Kraken
Ecology of the Draconian
Ecology of the Lizardfolk
...and much more!

This special issue will be printed on thicker paper stock with a thicker card stock cover. It will not be included with your Dragon subscription and will have to be purchased seperately.

MSRP $19.95 US
Available April 2007

emphasis mine

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

If it matters -- I doubt it does at this point -- I'd pay the extra dollars to get it as a hardcover.

 

[JustKim]

Oh, good news!

 

[takasi]

I've never been a huge fan of ecology articles. The information is useful if you are developing a new campaign world from scratch. I wish they provided more options. They read like "this is exactly the way things are" when I would rather see "here are some options". They're a little too much "in character" for my tastes.

 

[Erik Mona]

If the ecologies were a $20 softcover I would not complain. A $20 softcover is pretty reasonable. I would pay $25 for a softcover. But apparently it is a magazine, printed on magazine paper, with color runs and pages coming loose or warping from being held or bent. It's the material, not the price, that I'm complaining about.

The paper stock we're using will make this feel more like a softcover book than like a magazine. A good comparison would be "Red Hand of Doom," which is the same number of pages and has a similar stock.

--Erik Mona

 

[Razz]

This doesn't interest me too much. I'm sure it's great for many, but I am prone to giving my own ecologies of creatures in my own games.

It just makes me wonder even more why WotC is procrastinating on a Dragon Compendium Volume 2? :\

 

[buzz]

It just makes me wonder even more why WotC is procrastinating on a Dragon Compendium Volume 2? :\

How do you know they are? Has Paizo even proposed it yet?

 

[Kesh]

Back in the late 80s/early 90s they did. Pretty cool too, since it was told as a story by someone who was taken prisoner by the gnolls, and the actual "ecology" parts were footnotes at the end of the story.

Any idea what issue that's in? I have that 5-CD Dragon Magazine set I'd like to look it up in.

 

[Prince of Happiness]

Any idea what issue that's in? I have that 5-CD Dragon Magazine set I'd like to look it up in.

Oh daaawwg, I don't remember. It's been years. I would focus on the period when they were hyping Dark Sun, that's about as good as I can get it.

 

[DMH]

IIRC it is in 173. It has a Dark Sun humanoid (gith?) holding a bell looking down on a caravan.

Edit, pity this is only going to be the new ecologies. I like the Monster Hunters and the 2 gnomes with their human ally, both by Richards.