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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 5409837" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Magazine Issue 215: March 1995part 8/8Through the looking glass: As Robert's time here draws to a close, he reminisces a little about his most significant contribution to the magazine. It seems the thing people remember most is not his reviews, but his Battletech house rules back in 1990. Well, they both stood out, and were stretched across several issues. As much as they try and avoid multi part epic articles these days, those are the ones we are most likely to remember as classics. Perhaps that's another reason why the magazine isn't doing so well. As usual though, this is mostly minis reviews. A trio of monks, made for Pendragon, but suitable for nearly anything medieval. A sky cycle from Rifts, which won't be nearly so convertible. An ancient table with some decidedly sinister tomes resting upon it. It is, of course, a trap, my dears. Four Knights, one with an axe and the others choosing the boring old sword attack. An absolutely massive wolf, easily twice the size of a man if it was standing up. Pretty Dire, really, especially if you get a pack of them. Even larger are some giant rats, with ratmen riders. By comparison, the trio of mecha that follow look a bit short and skinny. Different scales, I suppose. And male & female Virtual Adept, in full visor & gloves setup. These days, they could fit that technology into the rim of regular sized shades. Isn't living in the future great. TSR Previews: More wodges of forgotten realms goodies this month. Ruins of Zhentil keep ties in with the recent moonsea sourcebook. A megadungeon boxed set? Those always lure in the punters. Remember, if you don't want them coming back you have to raze all the buildings, fill all the underground stuff in with concrete, dispel all the contingencies. and kill all the clones. Otherwise the place'll be infested with a pretty similar bunch of nasties in a few years time. Elminster's ecologies have obviously proved pretty popular, because we get two more of those. Two spooky little undead infested places in the midwest. Just the sort of places adventurers are likely to visit. Finally, we get Shadows of Doom by Ed Greenwood. See what Elminster was really up too during the avatar crisis. Making sure he could boff the new goddess of magic, I'll wager. <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" /> Dark sun has another splatbook. Thri-kreen of athas. Or four-handed death machines of wherever they choose to go. See that they're not just nomadic raiders, they have a whole bunch of castes and an encroaching empire to the northwest of the explored lands. Be ready to fight. Mystara gets another expansion & audio CD. Glantri: Kingdom of magic. With Alphatia gone, they're now the biggest collection of wizards around. How have recent years been to them since their first sourcebook back in 1987? Dragonlance starts a new series, The Warriors Series. Part one is Knights of the Crown by Roland Green. What's the bet the next two will be named after the other two Solamnic orders. On we go. Ravenloft has another tale of woe and sadistic revenge. Baroness of Blood by Elaine Bergstrom. And so the cycle continues. Who will rid me of this accursed curse? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Endless Quest is also in a ravenloft mood, with Night of the Tiger. Facing a rakshasa? That's never an easy one. Good luck and do your best to find the crossbow. Our generic products are pretty interesting too. The Dancing hut of Baba Yaga sees one of our classic scenarios return for a third time. Lisa Smedman takes us into a expanded version of the extradimensional whimsy we've seen before in the magazine. There's also another attempt to squeeze a few more drops out of the splatbook format. The complete book of necromancers takes a rather different, more DM focussed approach to fleshing out the wizard speciality, with a sample setting down in Al-Qadim and the NPC's to go with it. Full of flavour, even if that flavour may be somewhat maddening. Mostly pretty good stuff this month, with plenty of articles that are still pleasant to read and useful for me. There's still plenty of treasure to be found amongst the dross of this era, some of which has actually aged quite well. I guess next I shall have to see if they've still kept their sense of humour this year. Toot toot, all aboard.</blockquote>

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