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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 5476227" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Magazine Issue 223: November 1995part 8/8TSR Previews: December, as is often the case, is jam packed. Birthright, for a second time, gets a <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />ing mental 4 supplements in one go, rather than spreading it out like a sensible gameline. It's like they're trying to make it tricky for people to keep up with it, unless they have tons of disposable income. Ariya and Talinie get sourcebooks, giving you prefab domains with set up plots for your players to take control of. Cities of the sun takes you off to the coast to show you how to combine domain play and naval stuff. And Warlock of the Stonecrowns is an adventure which puts you up against an Awnshegh who's draining your country's powers. Team up and kick his mutated ass. The Forgotten Realms revisits the idea of splatbooks, in Wizards and Rogues of the Realms. Really, this is getting ridiculous. Who's going to buy this one? Well, I guess if we put some even more twinky kits and spells in there, they'll have to or fall behind their buds who did. Talking of twinks, Ed fills in some more of Elminster's history, in The Making of a Mage. What did he do to earn all those XP? Planescape reaches some balance at last, with Planes of Conflict. Another one that occupies pride of place (and lots of tea stains, because that's the one I'd always rest my mug on while reading in bed) in my collection. I'd never sell it, but apparently this one goes for quite a lot on ebay. Ravenloft realizes that this Gothic Earth thing is good for more supplements than a one-shot, and gives them a gazetteer with more info on victorian times, and the monsters that lurk around the world. Good to see them giving successful products a line on merit, rather than throwing tons at one for a year, and then dropping it when it disappoints, losing a load of money in the meantime. Mystara gets it's own annoying IC narrator. Joshuan's Almanac continues their tradition of yearly updates here, only with a bit more copycatting of the forgotten realms. Bleh. What happened to niche protection? Our generic stuff this year is moderately interesting. slade (who has now completely lost his name and capitalisation) completes the Encyclopedia Magica. Now you have the tables to randomly determine which of these hordes of items to give out. I hope you like rolling D1000's. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Another big expensive boxed set that eat up months of play is The Night Below. Venture into a massive underdark realm, and try and survive without seeing the sun. I hope you brought your collapsable 10 foot poles. And finally, play yet another type of Shaman. A decidedly weird little supplement with a premise that can take over an entire campaign. I'm still not sure if I like this one or not, over a decade later. It'd probably work better as a white wolf game. An issue that starts out pretty horribly, and then improves a bit as it goes along, but still never really catches fire, this continues to see them use up old stuff, and bring in new, cheaper looking features to replace them. They're caught between wanting to stop repeating themselves, and not having the money or submissions to do so as well as they used too. Which means they're probably not enjoying themselves in the office as much either. It's all pretty unpleasant really. Let's move on, see if they can still afford some decent presents for christmas then.</blockquote>

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