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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 5180608" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Magazine Issue 182: June 1992part 4/8Novel ideas: Ravenloft's first novel has done rather well, and here come the follow-ups. Dance of the Dead taking us to Souragne, and Heart of Midnight to Kartakass. Looks like they're not going for trilogies and recurring characters in this world, in contrast to Toril and Krynn. Well, horror does become increasingly difficult when you have recurring heroes who you know are going to survive. Still, it does mean they never got a breakout hit character like Drizzt or Raistlin. Except possibly the Darklords themselves. We remember Freddy, Jason, Mike Myers. Do you remember what the heroes who faced them were called? So it's proving here, although it's still going to be a while before they realise that and start shifting the focus of their novels accordingly. Once again, we get little looks into the minds of the writers, and see that the sources they drew on when writing are pretty prosaic actually.  And we also see that creating grim work when you don't feel that way naturally leaves you just itching to put immature jokes in and break the tension somehow. Who'd be a writer for hire, eh? The voyage of the princess ark: Looks like Bruce is indeed suffering burnout or other things occupying too much of his time, for the Ark is on vacation this month. Only the letters pages remain. Lets see what people want. Someone wants a creature crucible on the creatures of the savage coast. Bruce is not at all against the idea. Send in letters demanding it. It increases the odds it'll get made. A question: Why isn't alphatia the most powerful nation in the world if it's the only one with airships.( I. Wizard kings are fractious bastards who are more concerned with their rival wizards than anyone else. The are not inclined to share for the good of the country II. Other nations have their own special tricks. )A question: Is the princess ark based on Star Trek? (It wasn't intentional. It just kinda turned out that way. )What AC does ironwood armor have (same as the type of armor it's imitating)Will we ever see a gazetteer on Norwald (Good question. (the answer is no, but probably not intentionally.))Are there rules for hull points (no. You've just gotta fudge.)Are you gonna put firearms in D&D (no. We sorta just did. That's as close as I want to come to doing so.)What is haldemar prince of (Haaken, like it says. A floating rock and a few miles of farmland below it. Nothing spectacular. )Is the D&D planetary map based on earth in the past (Well spotted.)What's with the missing stats in Kingdoms of Nithia (Oops. Our bad. ) Is there going to be a monstrous compendium for D&D. (Probably. We have so many things we want to do.) The wild wild world of dice: A short but funny article here about the various quirks that people have about their dice. Silly superstitions, amusing habits, irritating tricks for cheating and methods of preventing this, and the endless cosmic battle of crystal vs opaque. One of those amusing little diversions that breaks up the flow of the magazine nicely, and has a few helpful bits of advice, (use different coloured dice for D% and define which is which beforehand) but isn't going to change the world. The equivalent of stopping for a drink at a small roadside bar on an endless freeway journey, just seeing the sights for a bit. Palladium gets evul with villains unlimited.</blockquote>

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