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<blockquote data-quote="ColonelHardisson" data-source="post: 3487924" data-attributes="member: 363">Giants in the Earth was perhaps my favorite regular feature of Dragon back in the day. While the DMG's &quot;recommended reading&quot; list gave me a good start on the best fantasy fiction out there, GITE helped add to that list. Plus it was always fun to see stats for characters I'd enjoyed reading about in their own books - the Demons of &quot;The Worm Ourobouros&quot; and the main character from Poul Anderson's &quot;The High Crusade&quot; are two of the most vivid examples. I'm sure Dragon wasn't securing rights to use those characters. I don't know the ins and outs of copyrght law, so I don't know if those articles qualified as reviews as far as &quot;fair use&quot; laws are concerned.I have to admit that sometimes a character write-up would put me off reading a particular book, which is too bad. The best example is Harold Shea from L. Sprague deCamp and Fletcher Pratt's &quot;Compleat Enchanter&quot; series of stories. The illustration and write-up both were unappealing to me, enough so that it took me until last year to read those stories. What I found was that the illo and write-up didn't even really come close to doing the character justice. Some of the GITE articles were kinda headscratchers. Best example: Tarl Cabot of the &quot;Gor&quot; series fame. I'm no prude, and i personally don't have a problem with the character being in GITE, but it surprises me now that &quot;Gor&quot; made the cut in Dragon, given the general subject matter of the series.I really dug the recent series of articles detailing historical and legendary figures (and the cities/areas they lived in), such as Xerxes and Leonidas from a few years ago, as well as the Beowulf/Grendel article from not too long ago. I'd like to see even more stuff like that. I'd even pay for a collection of such characters, divided up by era/mythology/legend cycle. Deities and Demigods was also a big favorite of mine as a source of NPC heroes and villains. Not just the &quot;Elric&quot; and &quot;Nehwon&quot; sections, though both were, and are, my favorite sections of that book - the illustrations especially, in particular that of the Grey Mouser - but also the &quot;Arthurian&quot; section and the various heroes from each mythology covered. Again, I'd love to see a collection of these types of characters, as well as those from other cultures and mythologies.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ColonelHardisson, post: 3487924, member: 363"] Giants in the Earth was perhaps my favorite regular feature of Dragon back in the day. While the DMG's "recommended reading" list gave me a good start on the best fantasy fiction out there, GITE helped add to that list. Plus it was always fun to see stats for characters I'd enjoyed reading about in their own books - the Demons of "The Worm Ourobouros" and the main character from Poul Anderson's "The High Crusade" are two of the most vivid examples. I'm sure Dragon wasn't securing rights to use those characters. I don't know the ins and outs of copyrght law, so I don't know if those articles qualified as reviews as far as "fair use" laws are concerned. I have to admit that sometimes a character write-up would put me off reading a particular book, which is too bad. The best example is Harold Shea from L. Sprague deCamp and Fletcher Pratt's "Compleat Enchanter" series of stories. The illustration and write-up both were unappealing to me, enough so that it took me until last year to read those stories. What I found was that the illo and write-up didn't even really come close to doing the character justice. Some of the GITE articles were kinda headscratchers. Best example: Tarl Cabot of the "Gor" series fame. I'm no prude, and i personally don't have a problem with the character being in GITE, but it surprises me now that "Gor" made the cut in Dragon, given the general subject matter of the series. I really dug the recent series of articles detailing historical and legendary figures (and the cities/areas they lived in), such as Xerxes and Leonidas from a few years ago, as well as the Beowulf/Grendel article from not too long ago. I'd like to see even more stuff like that. I'd even pay for a collection of such characters, divided up by era/mythology/legend cycle. Deities and Demigods was also a big favorite of mine as a source of NPC heroes and villains. Not just the "Elric" and "Nehwon" sections, though both were, and are, my favorite sections of that book - the illustrations especially, in particular that of the Grey Mouser - but also the "Arthurian" section and the various heroes from each mythology covered. Again, I'd love to see a collection of these types of characters, as well as those from other cultures and mythologies. [/QUOTE]

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