Good job, David Noonan!

[Ketjak]

An open letter to David Noonan:

David,

I read your Sharn Inquisitives every week. I usually find them entertaining and a decent source of plot hooks for a prospective Eberron campaign. I generally take wacky stories from the Weekly World News and turn them into D&D adventures or "side quests," so seeing D&D events portrayed as in-game news stories is of great interest and eventual utility for me.

Your recent "Crown Affirms Explorer Rights" is a cut above, however, and captures the sensationalism of a press trying to be responsible while yellow to the bone, the relationship between the government and adventurers, and the horror of an expedition's last moments. The best horror occurs off-screen, and you, sir, evoke a powerful image with your last sentence - the best story in any of the Inquisitives so far.

http://tinyurl.com/7dudt

Kudos (to you and your editor, if WotC has one on the Inquisitive articles), and thanks.

- Ket

 

[derbacher]

Hear, hear! I try to use as many of the "news items" from the Sharn Inquisitive as I can, although they come out faster than we have game sessions, which makes it tough. These are consistently useful to my game, and I hope they continue for a long, long time.