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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 5613459" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Magazine Issue 238: August 1997part 8/8TSR Previews: Yup, as I thought last month, there have been lots of delays. Although we've updated to July, August, September and October this month, much of the stuff mentioned is a repeat of last time. So I shall skim that, and only go into more detail on the new stuff.  July repeats Finder's bane, Lord Soth, Planar Powers, and Tale of the Comet. (the novel)August repeats Heroes of Defiance, The Day of the Tempest, The sea devils, Tale of the comet ( the sourcebook) Domains of Dread, The falcon and the wolf and Vinas Solamnus. There is some new stuff though. The forgotten realms gets 4 books again. Powers and Pantheons. Isn't this like, the 3rd book on them. Just how many more secrets do they have to reveal. Lands of Intrigue gives us more info on Amn and Tethyr. If you want your adventures full of scheming and double dealing head there. We also get two sodding Drizzt novels. See what delays get you. Passage to Dawn by R. A. Salvadore and Shores of Dusk by Mark Anthony certainly sound like they belong to the same series. Guess his life is as eventful as ever. There's also King of the Giantdowns for Birthright. A quite atmospheric sounding supplement. Isn't often you can manage much mystery in D&D, but this seems quite decent at it. Can you call on the buried giants in your hour of need, or will they ravage the country when their day comes. September is mostly new stuff. It does, however rehash Faces of Evil, and War. Blaah. Onto the interesting bits. Dragonlance gets the SAGA fate deck. Now you don't have to share if you want to play the 5th age game. If you just want to read, there's The Wayward Knights, number 7 in the Warriors series. The Tale of Sir Pirvan comes to a conclusion. Is it a happy one? The Forgotten Realms is up to number 5 in the Nobles novels. Council of Blades by Paul Kidd. More swashbuckling action. No further info given. The Sahuagin get their first tie-in adventure. Evil tide is the start of another trilogy. Living on the coast never seemed a less attractive option. This is why you need heroes to keep property prices from falling too far. And Dragon Dice gets a strategy manual, following in Spellfire's footsteps. Now you can spend even more money on becoming optimal. The pokemon comparisons become increasingly apt around here. October reschedules Lord of the Necropolis and Frostwings to then. Is that all of it, or will we have more schedule revisions detailed next month? The Forgotten Realms finally gets a novel devoted to the Simbul. The Simbul's gift by Lynn Abbey. Once again, they are obviously relying on the name's selling power because they give no info on the plot at all. Dragonlance gets Fistandantilus reborn by Doug Niles. You know, even if you bring him back, he'll have to start from scratch learning the new magic system. He won't be the great messiah you'd hoped for. Planescape starts being really messed around. The Great Modron March is happening out of schedule! What the devil? Oh well, we're adventurers, lets go see what this is about. And the wizard's spell compendium gets it's second volume. Yet more spells to make you so versatile you'll never lack for a trick to take down an enemy. Fear any player given free access to this. The current clack, on the other hand, is still oblivious to the recent changes in schedule around here. Indeed, neither TSR or WotC get mentioned at all, the attention being on various other companies. As is often the case, the various licences are the most interesting part. Xena and Men in Black RPG's? Highly amusing. How did they wind up doing? Plus Indiana Jones and Star Wars are still doing nicely for themselves, and the Star Trek CCG has expansions for all the new shows and movies, which is the kind of thing that takes quite a bit of negotiating. I wonder how long they'll keep hold of the property. Also of interest is that they've finally released In Nomine, quite substantially altered from the French version. Another area where I'm quite curious. Why the redesign instead of a straight translation, and was it an improvement? This issue is definitely better put together than the last issue, but there are still some fairly substantial problems. The tone is all over the place, with most of the articles playing it extra safe, but Ed is suddenly getting away with even more than he used too, which makes him stand out all the more. They've shown they're aware of the problems that led up to TSR's collapse, but still aren't sure what to do in response to them, which also comes off as a little wishy-washy. And they still aren't quite caught up on the schedule. Still, it made an interesting read precisely because of these problems, and leaves me rather optimistic for the immediate future. Just how much further will they have progressed by next month? I'll start finding out right away.</blockquote>

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