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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 5897961" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 275: September 2000part 7/7Dungeoncraft: Have you been making notes on everything Ray's been telling you? It's time for your examination! A mixture of true or false, multiple choice, and open questions, this is an easy way to remind us of what he's told us over the past year and a half, and will help you get a good idea of just how much you agree or disagree with his views. Most of it is to do with playstyle rather than the rules themselves, and once again is suitable for any roleplaying game, not just D&D. As a format change, this is a nice break from the regular, and quite a few of the things here do jog my memory, so I think it still has value. When so much of the game has just changed, it's important to be reminded what remains universally applicable. And retaining and applying information is more important than just learning it for a short period. I think this was timed about right. Now let's see if he still has new information to give us next month. Silicon Sorcery: Another D&D based video game gets it's good ideas stolen and transplanted back to the original game. Icewind Dale makes use of your race and ability scores to determine how characters react to you, limited visibility and terrain complications, and forces you to pay attention to character movement rates as a result of encumbrance and positioning in combat. All things you could do anyway, but seeing a computer game handle it automatically is a good reminder of the difference basics like that make. This doesn't give us any new crunch, so it's just a reiteration of basic DM'ing advice. Not terribly written, but rather repetitive, and in definite contrast to the large amounts of new stuff elsewhere in the issue. Well, the game is 2e as well, so I guess this is another sop to the holdouts for this month. What's new decries the overemphasis on violence of D&D. What's this guy's story? Hmm. D&D 3rd edition isn't even cooled down yet, and they're already releasing star wars D20. And they're still doing the whole "You'll never be as cool as the stars of the movies" thing. Hmm and hmm again. Even more than last issue, this epitomises the Punk aspect of their new direction, combining fresh and exciting articles with strange and often impractical stylistic choices. The bouts of leetspeak are particularly amusing in retrospect, and remind me just how far internet culture has progressed in the intervening decade. So if there are some dodgy bits, much of that can be attributed to growing pains. So let's see how they do once all the corebooks are out. After all, punk was a pretty short lived movement. This air of freshness and inexperience is unlikely to last long either once people get some serious playing time in using the new rules.</blockquote>

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