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<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 5549482" data-attributes="member: 8863">At the time I thought it was good, but I've changed my mind since the 3e days.&nbsp; The weapon tables in 2e had too many different weapon varieties that were mostly different in name only.&nbsp; I prefered 3e's approach of having a smaller set of stats and then having tables of cultural names for weapons that were equivalent of the standards rather than dozens and dozens of the same thing.&nbsp; There's a small handful here that have some unique properties, but most of them these days I'd just stats out as one of the standard swords.This was a good article, and Roger certainly did his research on it.&nbsp; A good examination of how to fit guns into existing worlds and homebrews, as well as some decent crunch.Jonathan Richards was pretty much the king of Ecologies in this period until Dragon changed the format.&nbsp; I think this one was one of his best, taking a relatively silly D&amp;D monster and actually making it into a serious sort of threat.&nbsp; And the framing device was very good too.Floyd was probably the red-headed stepchild that got slapped around a lot, so that why the synapses don't fire quite right.&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Orius, post: 5549482, member: 8863"] At the time I thought it was good, but I've changed my mind since the 3e days. The weapon tables in 2e had too many different weapon varieties that were mostly different in name only. I prefered 3e's approach of having a smaller set of stats and then having tables of cultural names for weapons that were equivalent of the standards rather than dozens and dozens of the same thing. There's a small handful here that have some unique properties, but most of them these days I'd just stats out as one of the standard swords. This was a good article, and Roger certainly did his research on it. A good examination of how to fit guns into existing worlds and homebrews, as well as some decent crunch. Jonathan Richards was pretty much the king of Ecologies in this period until Dragon changed the format. I think this one was one of his best, taking a relatively silly D&D monster and actually making it into a serious sort of threat. And the framing device was very good too. Floyd was probably the red-headed stepchild that got slapped around a lot, so that why the synapses don't fire quite right. ;) [/QUOTE]

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