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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 5622779" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Magazine Issue 239: September 1997part 8/8TSR Previews: Things have just about stabilised here. They detail september, october and november. The first two of these are just the same as they appear in last month's issue, so I shall have to just do the one two months ahead. November has The last tower, Four from Cormyr, and Elminster in Myth Drannor rescheduled to here, leaving only 4 new products to cover. Night of the Shark sees the Sahuagin continue their deadly assault. If you don't stop them, the whole kingdom is under threat. Birthright gives us another splatbook. The book of Priestcraft shows us how their clerics and druids differ from the norm. I bet they don't get as many cool new bits as the wizards did. Planescape follows straight on from the great modron march with Dead Gods. Another annoying metaplot module where canonically, the PC's lose, this sees Orcus return to active service in the AD&D multiverse. Gods in D&D are about as easy to finish off for good as Marvel Superheroes. Dragonlance has Tales of Uncle Trapspringer by Dixie Lee McKeone. Tasslehoff, a respected elder? Dear god, what is the world coming too. :shudders: Haven't we suffered enough? Do we need to hear how he's mates with demogorgon again, ever more exaggerated? What else has he got up to in the intervening years? The current Clack has finally caught up with actual current events as well.  WotC has not only bought D&D, but Legend of the 5 rings as well. Will there be a crossover? Many of you already know the answer to this. A little more surprising is a tale of incompetence involving Aaron Allston being booked to do Star Wars novels, but not actually being told until the deadline approached, and having to do some serious overtime to catch up. Editors eh? How do you get them to do their jobs? Plus HARN gives it's corebook away for the price of shipping, hoping that'll drive sales of the supplements, and a cthulhu punk filk band manages to release their second album, showing there's a real audience for this stuff. Companies may be struggling, but that just makes the news all the more interesting. Let's hope they're still managing to get product out there despite all this trouble. Once again they play it safe this issue, with lots of repeated stuff, and exceedingly boring and timid reviews. They are still improving quite a bit in terms of organisation, with only a couple of out-of time adverts, and are starting to fix up the presentation as well. And even if many of the articles are rehashed, the info is still very useful. While it doesn't hold up particularly well as a whole package, the individual parts would each contribute to your game just fine in actual play. Well, they're trying to make a new start. I shouldn't be surprised if the continuity goes to hell. Anyway, let's see if they've finished rebuilding next issue.</blockquote>

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