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<blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 5756240" data-attributes="member: 27780"><p><strong><u>Dragon Magazine Issue 258: April 1999</u></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>part 1/7</p><p></p><p></p><p>100 pages. This issue marks the end of the era of regular as clockwork 124 pagers. From here on out, the page count goes up and down (mostly down) from issue to issue unpredictably. Their comfortable early adulthood is over, where you can get drunk every weekend, live on Ramen for months on end and still get up and go next morning, and now it's time for all the aches and pains of middle age to set in. Still, at least that means I should be able to get through these last few years more quickly. Let's hit that accelerator. </p><p></p><p>Connecting with that is a rather amusing cover by Todd Lockwood, which features the hordes of belts, buckles & stupid adornments style that would become de rigeur throughout 3rd edition. A belly button ring, an eyebrow ring. A stud through the lip. Earrings that look like they'd slit her throat if she shook her head too hard. Lets not forget the belts. I count at least 29 on her. Really, who ever thought stuff like this was cool or practical for adventuring in? Even Alias would look askance at wearing this. At least trenchcoats are practical, weather resistant and have plenty of room for holding equipment. Of course, it could be an april fool that got taken seriously by the WotC art department. But somehow I doubt it. Welcome to D&D's first mid-life crisis. You'll never be a hip young thing again. Accept it. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Scan quality: Generally good, colours slightly faded. </p><p></p><p></p><p>In this issue:</p><p></p><p></p><p>The wyrms turn: Once again they get neurotic about the amount of humour they should have in their april issues. You've been doing this over 20 years now. It isn't exactly rocket science. You need at least one leftfield one that people will talk about and remember, but maybe won't get any game use out of, and then you can mix serious and funny ones around the rest of the issue how you want. How hard is that? Well, I guess if you're not getting the submissions, it might be a bit tricky, but they certainly seemed to have no shortage of them in Roger's day. Don't tell me the whole gaming population has suddenly gone boring. Or maybe they've just intimidated the interestingly weird ones away with their dogmatic submission guidelines. In any case, this says nothing they haven't done before. They could have skipped this and had another much needed page for articles. </p><p></p><p></p><p>The complete dragon ball Z boxed set on VHS?! That'll eat up a LOT of shelf space. Tenchi miyo, on the other hand, is down with modern technology. Hooray for DVD's.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="(un)reason, post: 5756240, member: 27780"] [B][U]Dragon Magazine Issue 258: April 1999[/U][/B] part 1/7 100 pages. This issue marks the end of the era of regular as clockwork 124 pagers. From here on out, the page count goes up and down (mostly down) from issue to issue unpredictably. Their comfortable early adulthood is over, where you can get drunk every weekend, live on Ramen for months on end and still get up and go next morning, and now it's time for all the aches and pains of middle age to set in. Still, at least that means I should be able to get through these last few years more quickly. Let's hit that accelerator. Connecting with that is a rather amusing cover by Todd Lockwood, which features the hordes of belts, buckles & stupid adornments style that would become de rigeur throughout 3rd edition. A belly button ring, an eyebrow ring. A stud through the lip. Earrings that look like they'd slit her throat if she shook her head too hard. Lets not forget the belts. I count at least 29 on her. Really, who ever thought stuff like this was cool or practical for adventuring in? Even Alias would look askance at wearing this. At least trenchcoats are practical, weather resistant and have plenty of room for holding equipment. Of course, it could be an april fool that got taken seriously by the WotC art department. But somehow I doubt it. Welcome to D&D's first mid-life crisis. You'll never be a hip young thing again. Accept it. Scan quality: Generally good, colours slightly faded. In this issue: The wyrms turn: Once again they get neurotic about the amount of humour they should have in their april issues. You've been doing this over 20 years now. It isn't exactly rocket science. You need at least one leftfield one that people will talk about and remember, but maybe won't get any game use out of, and then you can mix serious and funny ones around the rest of the issue how you want. How hard is that? Well, I guess if you're not getting the submissions, it might be a bit tricky, but they certainly seemed to have no shortage of them in Roger's day. Don't tell me the whole gaming population has suddenly gone boring. Or maybe they've just intimidated the interestingly weird ones away with their dogmatic submission guidelines. In any case, this says nothing they haven't done before. They could have skipped this and had another much needed page for articles. The complete dragon ball Z boxed set on VHS?! That'll eat up a LOT of shelf space. Tenchi miyo, on the other hand, is down with modern technology. Hooray for DVD's. [/QUOTE]
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