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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8869622" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon Issue 67: Mar/Apr 1998part 1/580 pages. Scarecrows with pumpkin heads? In april? At this latitude? Localised entirely within your cornfield? Looks like they're failing at seasonality again due to the massive surplus of horror submissions. Let's see if there are any fresh ideas inside, or they'll be as rotten as autumn fruit by the time spring rolls around.  Letters is very small this time, with only two submissions, both sent via email. First praises them for doing a Dragonlance Saga adventure, but nitpicks how snow shoes actually work. When you live in Canada, you get plenty of first hand experience of these things. Second talks about their favourite adventures of recent issues, favouring ones that are larger and involve traveling between multiple locations over one trick ponies. Got to keep them from getting bored as variety is the spice of life.Editorial: When a magazine has been going for this long, it does get difficult not to repeat yourself. Chris talks about some of the most overdone creatures, that have appeared repeatedly in here and get even more disproportionate numbers of submissions. Evil wizards, liches, lycanthropes, vampires and especially dopplegangers, they just keep on coming, often being used in very similar ways. It's not that you should stop using them entirely, as after all, he's had adventures published featuring every single one of these, plus the equally cliched kobolds with traps, but if you do you need to be aware that you're being held to higher standards than if you use thouls or bhaergala and come up with a way to use them that isn't just an imitation of something we've seen before. Don't try to imitate his writing style to get published either. Chris knows he's awesome and is flattered that you would try, but you'll never be him, so work harder on developing your own distinctive style. He continues to have a lot more tongue in cheek egotism than any previous editor, which makes for an interesting read, but also makes me worry at some point he'll start to believe his own hype.</blockquote>

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