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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 5543669" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Magazine Issue 231: July 1996part 6/8Sage advice: How do you make psionicists using skills & powers (oh, this is gonna eat up tons of space. Should skip cap this mofo to get out of this question :Rumble of thunder, stab of organ music: oop, lorraine's watching, better get to work. Work work work. La lala Happy shiny rules writer, la la lala.)Does a scarab of protection help you against dispel magic (no. It has no save, so the bonus doesn't apply)What happens if you destroy a liches phylactery before killing the lich (You get a very pissed off lich after you. Also, liches, like dev <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />rgan music: er, fiends, are notoriously tricksy. Don't be surprised if it's a fake.) Network News: Another case of fail this month comes here, with the end of this article cut off abruptly for no apparent reason. It looks like it ought to route to another page, and indeed, on the next page there's a whole load of blank space it could have gone in, but I've scoured both my .pdf and physical copy and can't find it anywhere. This is another thing that makes me grumpy, especially as I was rather enjoying reading it beforehand. An interview with the guy in charge of Earthdawn, and his past and convention experiences. He's one of the people working hard to keep the RPGA supporting games other than D&D, which definitely deserves kudos. He's also busy writing for FASA when not co-ordinating convention adventures. It's both likable and informative. So this article manages to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, which is both annoying and funny. This is what happens when you go through editors too fast. Dragon dice: A second bit of supplement pimping two months in succession. From the undead, to what is pretty much their opposite. The Ferals! Embodiment of vitality, fecundity and animalistic savagery. They replace troops at a scary speed, making them hard to put down for good, move fast, are ok in any terrain, and have plenty of tricks based on their individual animal types. Yeah, this is pretty standard fantasy tropeage, and quite a few of the spells seem to be directly taken from D&D. I find this surprisingly boring, especially compared to the quirks of the first few races. I suppose half of that is the problem with changing your lead developer and the other is that supplements don't generally get the development and editing time core stuff does. In any case, I suspect half-assed ideas like this contributed to the line's overall problem with oversaturation and underselling. Adding the kitchen sink makes a setting less interesting, not more. Knights of the dinner table has an attack of the henchpeople. Swordplay turns the tables on the law. Dragonmirth does the old fake house trick again. Floyd faces the attention of the Randian inquisition. Will they give him a properly objective trial?</blockquote>

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