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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8933454" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon Issue 70: Sep/Oct 1998part 5/5Nodwick’s party have no trouble finding people willing to help them fight the ghouls, but forget to scale up the number of henchmen accordingly, leaving him even more weighed down than usual. D&D Fast-Play Game: Dragon also contains this little booklet this month, obviously they want to push it hard, hopefully introducing more people to the concept of roleplaying. Which means I also get to review it once again, 12 years apart. When put in a magazine with a bunch of proper adventures to contrast it against, the short, linear and ultra-basic nature of this one sticks out even more, as it handholds you through every step of the way, explicitly spelling out your options and the numbers needed to succeed on them with each of the pregens, taking up far more page count for the amount of content than usual. It’s still handy for it’s original purpose, but putting it in an ongoing campaign with experienced players, it’ll probably wind up boring them. I’m definitely not the target audience anymore, if I ever was.Another very interesting issue in quick succession, if for slightly less positive reasons than the previous ones, as we see the start of putting lots of co-ordinated tie-ins with Dragon and whatever books they happen to be releasing that month. While a refreshing change at first, that could well result in more adventures written on demand by staff writers rather than freelancers, or chosen primarily because they fit a theme rather than quality like Bill Slavicsek's terrible council of wyrms & dark sun ones. Still, for the moment they're doing pretty well, mixing an increased focus on solid rules with plenty of interesting roleplaying challenges, putting you up against multiple morally ambiguous antagonists and forcing you to choose which to side with in 4 out of the 6 adventures here. I'm still eager to see if that's all the big changes they've got planned for now, or even more will be forthcoming in another couple of months.</blockquote>

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