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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 5603711" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Magazine Issue 237: Mid 1997part 6/8Bazaar of the Bizarre: No surprise that like last time, their holding pattern has resulted in a tried and tested topic being dug up for another go in this department. Magical bows and arrows. The last time they got specials on them was in 87 and 88, so I think this is probably about due, unlike the Armor ones just before the break. Let's see if any of the ideas are new.Arachne arrows work as a high quality grappling hook. As usual, they're one use, so save them for when you really really need them. Arrows of billaro wrap the person hit up with great brutality. Always a useful trick. Again, one use, so make sure you need it. The arrow of endless archery gives you exactly that as long as it stays in it's quiver. It even has a failsafe to make sure you don't waste it accidentally. Very handy.  Arrows of pyros obviously add a load of fire damage to the hit. Some of them also provide an AoE fireball effect. Make sure you don't shoot them into melee with your friends, as usual. An arrow of the thunderst(r?)ike go boom when they hit, providing an AoE hit. Another thing we saw a variant upon very recently. Arrows of withering aren't permanently crippling like I'd hoped, just another one that inflicts tons of themed damage. Well, it keeps spellcasters from totally dominating the artillery role. Diamond tipped arrows hurt a lot, but are very expensive. Unusually for magic arrows, they're sometimes reusable if you can recover them. Good luck with that. Ruby-tipped arrows teleport the person hit home. This can of course be useful whether you target friends or foes, and definitely deserves thinking about before use. Very interesting idea I'd like to see used cleverly in a book. Emerald-tipped arrows are another explosive hit triggered AoE attack. Really, they could come up with endless variants on this by putting different spells into the equation. Gnimshan oil lets you enhance rather more arrows with burning death. Honestly, have these people never heard of mundane flaming oil? That'd be cheaper and almost as effective. The bow of Ehlonna has the best aspects of several bow types, plus a few more benefits. Not very impressive, but just generally useful. Duell's iron bow folds up into a tiny size for easy carrying. Another trick that can be applied to nearly any item type, and I think already has. This is one I can't work up much enthusiasm for. KotDT suffer from overattachment to their characters. Dragonmirth makes another Marilyn Monroe joke in quick succession. Swordplay starts playing a game within the game. A whole host of crossovers make cameos in Floyd. Growf. Rifts has a checklist of their release schedule for that year. How many of these were late as well? <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" /></blockquote>

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