Idea for a new Dragon Magazine column

[BOZ]

Hey, who knows how feasible this is, but it couldn't hurt to ask.

Given how popular Lords of Madness is, and with whole threads devoted to "why wasn't this aberration in the book" or "if they do a sequel, they should have this monster in there" I had an idea.

It might be pretty darn cool to have articles in Dragon that expand on Lords of Madness, specifically the chapters from pages 15-134, but also featuring things based on the other chapters. Naturally, such articles would be way shorter than the chapters featured in LoM, but maybe that's the point since these creatures didn't make the cut for the book in the first place.

Additional "chapters" on such aberrations can be on creatures already found in 3E, converted from older editions of D&D, or brand new critters.

What do people think of this?

 

[demiurge1138]

That would be awesome. Somewhere between an Ecology and a Demonomicon article, right? They could call it "The Codex Anathema" or "Through the Ebon Mirror".

Problem is, the Demonomicon series is pretty similar. I doubt they'd do both simultaneously. Maybe after a dozen or so Demonomicons, though...

Demiurge out.

 

[Pants]

That would be awesome. Somewhere between an Ecology and a Demonomicon article, right? They could call it "The Codex Anathema" or "Through the Ebon Mirror".

Problem is, the Demonomicon series is pretty similar. I doubt they'd do both simultaneously. Maybe after a dozen or so Demonomicons, though...

Demiurge out.

Well... seeing as they don't have Demonomicon articles every issue, they could interchange them a bit.

I think it's a pretty cool idea actually.

 

[Shade]

Absolutely!

In fact, I requested something similar over on Paizo's boards when LoM came out:

http://paizo.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects...keLordsOfMadness&wosid=Xqcpg9x0X1kgToG7gkrrow

No responses, though. It must've got lost in the shuffle. :\

 

[Felon]

Just sounds like ecology articles for aberrations.

 

[Richards]

Right after the 3.0 Monster Manual came out, I suggested in a letter to the editor that Dragon ought to devote a page per issue to updating a "pre-3.0" monster to 3.0, so they could steadily add to the numbers of "core" monsters. Obviously, the suggestion was rejected - but then the Creature Catalog site makes it somewhat redundant anyway.

Johnathan

 

[trancejeremy]

What I would like to see is a column called "DFunky", about putting the 70s back into D&D.

But I suspect I'm the only one.

 

[The Shaman]

What I would like to see is a column called "DFunky", about putting the 70s back into D&D.

I'll second that!

In any case, as far as authors go, I hear Wil Wheaton is looking for work...

 

[BOZ]

Absolutely!

In fact, I requested something similar over on Paizo's boards when LoM came out:

http://paizo.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects...keLordsOfMadness&wosid=Xqcpg9x0X1kgToG7gkrrow

No responses, though. It must've got lost in the shuffle. :\

i didn't say it was going to happen, i just thought it would be cool.

 

[Arnwyn]

To be perfectly honest, that's the kind of article I expected to see from Dragon Magazine - expansions of books and concepts that were limited in space... but Dragon never went in that direction.