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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 5620336" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Magazine Issue 239: September 1997part 6/8Bookwyrms wins the battle of the novel columns. Seems like John Bunnel is another of the people who decided not to stick around after the company changed hands. From here on in, it's all fricken recommendations. This is definitely cause for grumpiness on my part. If you don't provide a target for my bitchiness, you will become the target yourself. Ignition by Kevin J Anderson & Doug Beason is basically Die Hard - IIINNNN SPAAAACCCEEEEE!!!!!. Yeah, that's about it for the description. This will either sell you instantly, or not. Now, how do they get a movie adaption going so they can rake in the megabucks. The tranquility alternative by Allen Steele is basically Die Hard - ON THE MOON!!!! The staff are obviously in the mood for some fact paced popcorn action books to consume. Well, when you're twiddling your thumbs for months uncertain of your job, you want fantasies of playing the big hero barreling around the place solving problems, don't you. The waterborn by J Gregory Keyes changes gears, starting off slow, but building into a fairly complex plot with characters that are well-developed, but not always likable. Therefore they mark him as an author to watch. Right back atcha, if I remember correctly. Sorcerers of Majipoor by Robert Silverberg is another story set on his enormous fantastical world with sci-fi underpinnings. This is one of those recommendations that's pretty much a no-brainer. Gotta reach out to those new fantasy readers. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Reliquary by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child seems to be one of those sequels where they have to turn everything up a notch, with a substantially higher body count and larger scale. Fortunately, it doesn't do it at the expense of the science part of the fiction. One for Michael Crichton fans, apparently. Millennium 1: the frenchman by Elizabeth Hand is a fairly straight conversion of one of the TV series' episodes. This does mean you can skip some bits that were ponderous in the actual show, but otherwise, meh. Once again, I am pretty unsure why they would bother to recommend this. Sage advice: Can you combine deity specific kits and regional kits. (Skip recommends not. Just because one writer breaks the rules, doesn't mean you can.)What HD do crusaders use (d8)How long does a horse take to grow up (3-5 years )How do true dweomers & quest spells interact with the spell point rules (they don't. They are entirely independent special subsystems)Why do firbolgs get such good weapons (Good question. We may have to alter this for the sake of game balance. We also need to fix giant sized weapons in general.)What xp chart do shamans & witch doctors use (Cleric ones. Yeth, thath tho unfair.)Can witch doctors be elementalists, wild mages, or some other special school (probably) I thought you said 30th is the maximum level. Faiths and avatars lets you get up to 40th level (Gods of different worlds have different levels of generosity. The Krynnish gods dispose of you if you get above 18th, while the toril guys and gals let you get up to level 40 because they like watching twinky bastards messing things up. All you can do is suffer their whims, since we don't let PC's challenge gods anymore, no matter how high level they get. ) How do you determine your odds of blind-fighting successfully (9)</blockquote>

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