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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8284058" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon Issue 26: Nov/Dec 1990part 1/576 pages. A wolf, a full moon, and a man growing claws and fangs? I do believe we may have a lycanthropic scenario on out hands. How very spooky, if a touch late to be seasonal. Still, if it's meant to be a surprise to the PC's at first, all the better to keep it so. Let's find out who's responsible, and how contagious their particular strain is.Editorial: The editorial once again reiterates their desire to keep variety up, both continuing to publish non D&D material, and doing more small adventures. That is, presuming they can get suitable submissions, which is always in doubt. To encourage that, they're running a competition to come up with a snappy name for the short encounters column, which will hopefully help give it an identity and keep it regular, like the ecologies in Dragon. Give us something to look forward to to tune in again, even if we probably have enough adventures for a full campaign already.Letters: The first letter quibbles about the rules for moonmelon mutation. The parents can be cured with the right treatment, but any kids you've already had are stuck that way forever. Not that forever means that much in a universe where shapeshifting magic is commonplace, and reincarnation spells only mildly rarer.The second reminds the rest of the readers that they can only publish what's submitted. Be the change you want to see. That refrain definitely isn't going away any time soon, is it.Third is from Barbara's daughter, who's friends don't believe she's really the daughter of Dungeon's editor because she has a different surname, and wants to get her name in print to prove it to them. A woman, not only having a full-time job, but also bearing children out of wedlock?! : Pops monocle: Well I never heard of such a thing! It's no wonder they find her story implausible! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> What is the world coming too?! Jeeves, pour me a stiff glass of brandy. I feel quite out of sorts.Fourth is another complaining that some recent adventures are too deadly, and wondering what playtesting took place on them? Unless the writer did it with their own group before submitting it, absolutely none. They don't have the time or budget for that. This is why they wind up with ones that read well, but might not work out for many groups in actual play.Fifth praises them for doing non-D&D adventures, and asks them if they'll do a TMNT one. Since it's a licensed property, and Palladium are noted for being litigiously obstreperous, I somehow don't think that specific example is going to pan out.6th, 7th & 11th are also very happy about the Marvel experiment, and want more, more more! Just a shame that they also have to rely on advertising to keep the magazine going.8th, 9th, 10th, 12th & 13th provide the opposing viewpoint, and want all the non D&D stuff excised pronto or they may stop reading altogether. Yeesh. It's only one adventure out of half a dozen, it's hardly as if they've stopped catering to you altogether. Do you treat every single film that doesn't have a straight white male protagonist in the same way?</blockquote>

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