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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 5639437" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Magazine Issue 242: December 1997part 1/8124 pages. A nice cover at last, with none of the over cluttering or excess badass that has been far too prevalent in recent months. Ahh, Tony Diterlizzi. Managing both quality and quantity of images while retaining a distinctive style. He deserves quite a bit of credit for what he's done over the years. Lets see what's inside. Gah, another generic magic themed issue. They've done that for christmas before, and this certainly doesn't look like it's got anything special like issue 200. Come on, prove me wrong bitches. I'd love to have my expectations defied in this case. In this issue:The Wyrm's turn: This year's been a bit of a bust really. But they're already cheerfully looking forward to next year. So here's where we hear about the changes they're making. While they're not announcing 3rd edition yet, they're going to concentrate on setting heavy products that'll remain useful even if there is an edition change, so they're obviously starting to make plans in that direction. They're also putting more control in the hands of the writers for the settings, and the magazine is getting a column by their new owner Peter Adkison. Since Gary's columns were often one of the most interesting things about the old magazine, I shall watch this development with great interest. Promises promises. You may have changed a few things already, but you have a whole bunch of established culture to go against. And you shouldn't want to slay every sacred cow anyway. In any case, this is more interesting historical signposts. D-Mail: We start off with someone complaining about Dalamar's replacement in the Wizards Three. Ed takes the opportunity to give a suitably whimsical IC reply. People would complain just as much if you ignored continuity and had him turning up unexplained. Still, couldn't you have got a replacement from Cerilia or one of the other settings instead of just adding an apprentice. That would seem a more interesting solution. Don't they have enough iconic NPC's to draw upon? A letter expressing annoyance at too many multi-page adverts, and suggesting that an article on medieval clothing might be useful to their readers and not too rehashed. That's the kind of specific request they can fulfil without too much difficulty. A letter asking for more Greyhawk and Spelljammer articles. We're already getting a decent number of Greyhawk ones. Any setting ones would be welcome really, because it gives them choice. A quibble from regular writer and forumite Paul Culotta about Roman history and language. He knows his stuff, it seems. Do you want to try debating him?</blockquote>

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