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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8292824" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon Issue 27: Jan/Feb 1991part 1/576 pages. A dragon skeleton? Whether it's just a mindless thing raised by the necromancer, or a full-blown dracolich that's the dominant partner in the relationship, that's not an encounter to take lightly. Any sensible party should check their situation and work out tactics accordingly, because that looks like a tough fight to charge into. Time to head inside and see if the mechanics back up the visuals. Editorial: Speaking of visuals, they've been asking people what they want to see in future adventures, and the most consistent replies concern stepping up their production values. More relevant illustrations to show your players, clearer division of IC and OOC text, making sure all the relevant stats for creatures are instantly accessible, it's all about the ergonomics. They can make the difference between going straight into an encounter and fumbling around for several minutes looking things up the the main rulebooks. Of course, adding more colour would require a bigger budget, so that may be slow in coming, but they're working on the other suggestions as we speak. After all, the easier adventures are to understand, the more likely people are to use them and want to subscribe for more. An instance where paying attention to your audience is a win-win process. Letters: Our first letter reminds people complaining about advertising that it still results in a net positive on the amount of content you get. Until economic concerns are no longer an issue, and everyone is free to create anything they can imagine, they still need to earn money to be able to do this, and a few adverts is better than raising the cover price for us.Second also has no issue with advertising, and asks if they ever plan to go monthly. Not until they have enough submissions that it wouldn't significantly affect their quality control standards to do so. If you want that to happen, recruit more readers.Third praises the wacky inventiveness of the moonmelon adventure. It turned out pretty well for them in actual play, and that's what really counts. Fourth is another person who thinks they're doing things pretty much right, and is annoyed at all the people complaining at them. The complainers are more likely to be published, because that's what makes for interesting reading. Just like the adventures, a certain degree of conflict is necessary for a magazine like this to function. Fifth is more praise for non D&D adventures, and asks if they'll ever do a Star Frontiers one. Sixth dashes those hopes, as it's another one complaining about non D&D adventures taking space away from D&D gamers, while not making lovers of other systems into subscribers, because any particular other system will only appear very sporadically in here at one non D&D adventure per issue. As the number of negative letters outnumbers the positive ones 2 to 1 on this subject, they concede defeat. Well, that sucks. Now they'll have to work extra hard to keep up variety in the D&D adventures to make sure they don't get repetitive. Finally, on a lighter note, we have a letter from some marines stationed in Saudi Arabia without their gaming materials. If there's anyone else in the area who wants to run a game, you've got a captive audience ready to play. (at least, until they're sent somewhere else on short notice)</blockquote>

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