Latest Dragon--what's with the Editors?

[Tom Cashel]

[Those of you aren't Editors might find this nit-picky, but that's why you aren't editors. We are a nit-picking breed.]

The latest issue of Dragon was terribly copyedited! I don't understand why this is so, considering that Paizo brought the staff with them when they took over the mag.

So what's up?

Cover: "Demons and Angles" [sic]. I was expecting something about non-Euclidean geometry.

Gygax's column: "Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned Fron [sic] D&D."

Is the artist's last name really "Renyolds"? I would have checked to see if it was supposed to be Reynolds. Of course, he's left off the list of Contributing Artists in the masthead.

There are other mistakes I noticed, but cannot remember without the issue in front of me.

Overall...a decent issue content-wise. Extremely sloppy, though, for the $7.99 price tag.

 

[Desdichado]

You talkin' about #299 or #300?

 

[ColonelHardisson]

I noticed those too. I hate to get to the point of nitpicking typos, but these were so glaring...especially the cover!

 

[WizarDru]

[Those of you aren't Editors might find this nit-picky, but that's why you aren't editors. We are a nit-picking breed.]

The latest issue of Dragon was terribly copyedited! I don't understand why this is so, considering that Paizo brought the staff with them when they took over the mag.

So what's up?

I would expect that the rapid and somewhat unexpected switchover meant that they were rushed, and some errors creeped through. Prep for issue 300 might also be part of the problem.

We'll see what happens, I guess. Herr Mona, are you about anywheres?

 

[Morrus]

Yeah, if you're gonna make a silly mistake, the cover's not place the place to do it!

 

[Desdichado]

Yeah, if you're gonna make a silly mistake, the cover's not place the place to do it!

Yeah, but it was, what, less than a year ago that we had the Masters of the Wild featured issue, with just as glaring a gaffe on the cover?

 

[Tom Cashel]

Now that I have it in front of me:

It is 299. And there are TWO mistakes on the cover alone.

"Do feats shape your charater's [sic] personality?"

"Demons and Angles [sic]: the Hidden Alliance"

I liked the content a lot; I was amazed at how much of it will be of immediate use. The Horrors of Cormyr and return of Ed's column were fantastic. Good stuff.

But too many errors. I do quite a bit of contract editing and I have impeccable references, if anyone at Paizo is reading this...

 

[hellbender]

[BIs the artist's last name really "Renyolds"? I would have checked to see if it was supposed to be Reynolds. Of course, he's left off the list of Contributing Artists in the masthead.
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Well, now this is just tradition, not bad editing. Your other points are quite valid, however poor WAR has had his name butchered severely for ages this was even noted in the wilderness issue of Dragon, in which he did the cover.

hellbender

 

[Forrester]

Holy crap!

Imagine a D&D campaign based on Edwin Abbott's FLATLAND!

!!!!!!!!

I was going to post something snarky about the Demons and Angles thing (bad editing is one of my pet peeves, and for there to be an error that big on the cover is simply retarded), but that got washed away . . .

Imagine a world where people play different geometric shapes that go out to do battle against an army of two-dimensional monsters.

This is such a cool idea, my brain is starting to hurt.

There wouldn't be any Fly spells, for one . Teleport spells could be explained by travel through the third dimension. Wow . . . there's just . . . just . . . soooo many possibilities!

 

[Tom Cashel]

Does anyone remember that old Dragon with the mini-adventure that allowed you to make clay creatures and pit them against each other in an arena?

I had to check the article to make sure that "Demons and Angles" was a mistake...it sounded to me like the non-Euclidean structure of R'lyeh described in Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu.