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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 5581040" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Magazine Issue 236: December 1996part 1/8124 pages. Christmas time, a time for giving. Or is it a time for counting your blessings? Appropriately enough though, it's time for another cleric special in here. Ho ho ho. Give us your faith and be thankful we don't smite you, puny mortals. So yeah, it's a topic we've seen before and it's way too easy to be cynical about. I'm yet again left wondering if they have anything new to say. Let's roll the dice and hope we get lucky. In this issue:The wyrm's turn: Naming the editorial The Dying Game? SYMBOLISM!!!! OMGWTFBBQGENIUS!!!!! If the birthday issue was them begging for help to turn things around, this is them practically throwing their hands up and admitting they're now in deep <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=":)" /> and know it. Actually, the editorial isn't actually about that, but another story of how the editor's early characters got sent through a meatgrinder and died in quick succession. Which is not only less entertaining than Roger's old editorials on the same subject, but also most of the First Quest series as well. Dave Gross continues to bore me with his writing style. Screw this. Onto the letters. D-Mail: One of those letters that comments on nearly everything in the issue 2 months ago. Guess that's still their lead-in time. Oh, and do more greyhawk articles.  Yeah yeah, we know it still has a strong fanbase by now. Where were you in 1993? A letter from someone who wants to write books. Oh man, they just can't get away from their legal issues and responsibilities in this area. They once again have to figure out how to let someone down gently. You'd think they'd have a stock response prepared by now. A letter from an army guy who finds Dragon is one thing that lightens up his otherwise rather cut-off existence. Haven't had so much of this since Roger left. A letter from someone who really likes the SAGA system, and would like to see all their other worlds converted to it. I don't think so, somehow. Nice try. Some praise for the creepy lich-focused magical items. Ahahahaha!!!!! A pleasure doing business with you. :steeples fingers: A letter complaining Al Qadim is gone, and it looks like Mystara has fallen to the same fate. Campaign worlds are going at quite a rate, and it does not make people happy. Only the magazine keeps them alive! It is sad, isn't it. But they can't argue with sales figures. You wouldn't want them to go out of business, would you? Heroes of faith: For a second issue in a row, we start off the articles with more Skills & Powers expansion. Fortunately this is a good deal shorter than last month, with a mere 2 pages of new options for speciality priests to buy with their character points. Quite a few of them are from other classes, given the usual excuse that they might be worshiping gods of magic, or thievery or whatever. And of course you can now get mechanical renumeration for the strictness of your god's tenets, which in theory will make characters more balanced, but in practice results in people picking restrictions that they would have done anyway, and twinking out like a mutha. So this might improve the game, but only under plenty of DM oversight. I'm once again left a bit grumpy by this.</blockquote>

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