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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 311351" data-attributes="member: 508">Well, I've got some good news/bad news for you.&nbsp; The good news: Yes indeed, Dragon #300 will have &quot;The Ecology of the Mummy,&quot; and Jesse Decker has stated elsewhere that &quot;Ecology&quot; articles will be semi-regular features in the pages of Dragon.&nbsp; The bad news: These &quot;Ecology&quot; articles won't look like the &quot;Ecology&quot; articles of the past.&nbsp; For one thing, they won't be in the &quot;footnotes in fiction&quot; format (heh, try saying that three times fast!) that so many of us have come to love.&nbsp; Rather, they'll be more of like an expanded &quot;Vs.&quot; article (remember those from when the magazine first went to 3E?).I'm of two minds on this.&nbsp; I'm understandably disappointed that the fiction portion of the &quot;Ecology&quot; articles are being killed off (there go my Monster Hunters, sniff! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />), but I'm still glad to see their return after over a year without any &quot;Ecology&quot; articles at all.&nbsp; And while I was disappointed to have had a stack of five &quot;Ecology&quot; articles that Dave Gross (the previous Dragon editor) had expressed interest in sent back to me as rejected (at the time, Jesse wasn't interested in running &quot;Ecology&quot; articles at all; he's since reconsidered and developed his new format), I'm glad to see that they'll continue to be an ongoing part of the magazine, even if the format is a little different.&nbsp; It was the &quot;Ecology&quot; articles that caught my interest when I first subscribed (this was around the &quot;Ecology of the Satyr&quot; and &quot;Ecology of the Manticore&quot; days) and eventually led to me having more &quot;Ecology&quot; articles published than anyone on the planet!&nbsp; (My one claim to fame.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)&nbsp; So, I'll be converting the five &quot;rejected due to fiction&quot; articles and resubmitting them in the new format.&nbsp; With luck, you might see them in the near future!In the meantime, I look forward to reading &quot;The Ecology of the Mummy&quot; in the pages of Dragon #300.&nbsp; I've forgotten the name of the guy who wrote it, but I'm sure it will be good.&nbsp; (Plus, there haven't been too many &quot;Ecology&quot; articles featuring undead creatures; I can only think of the penanggalan, ghoul, and sheet phantom off the top of my head.)Johnathan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Richards, post: 311351, member: 508"] Well, I've got some good news/bad news for you. The good news: Yes indeed, Dragon #300 will have "The Ecology of the Mummy," and Jesse Decker has stated elsewhere that "Ecology" articles will be semi-regular features in the pages of Dragon. The bad news: These "Ecology" articles won't look like the "Ecology" articles of the past. For one thing, they won't be in the "footnotes in fiction" format (heh, try saying [I]that[/I] three times fast!) that so many of us have come to love. Rather, they'll be more of like an expanded "Vs." article (remember those from when the magazine first went to 3E?). I'm of two minds on this. I'm understandably disappointed that the fiction portion of the "Ecology" articles are being killed off (there go my Monster Hunters, sniff! :(), but I'm still glad to see their return after over a year without any "Ecology" articles at all. And while I was disappointed to have had a stack of five "Ecology" articles that Dave Gross (the previous Dragon editor) had expressed interest in sent back to me as rejected (at the time, Jesse wasn't interested in running "Ecology" articles at all; he's since reconsidered and developed his new format), I'm glad to see that they'll continue to be an ongoing part of the magazine, even if the format is a little different. It was the "Ecology" articles that caught my interest when I first subscribed (this was around the "Ecology of the Satyr" and "Ecology of the Manticore" days) and eventually led to me having more "Ecology" articles published than anyone on the planet! (My one claim to fame. :)) So, I'll be converting the five "rejected due to fiction" articles and resubmitting them in the new format. With luck, you might see them in the near future! In the meantime, I look forward to reading "The Ecology of the Mummy" in the pages of Dragon #300. I've forgotten the name of the guy who wrote it, but I'm sure it will be good. (Plus, there haven't been too many "Ecology" articles featuring undead creatures; I can only think of the penanggalan, ghoul, and sheet phantom off the top of my head.) Johnathan [/QUOTE]

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