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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 5900184" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 276: October 2000part 2/7Up on a soapbox: Gary does the grognard grumbling thing again this month. We need more roleplaying of day to day life, and less epic hero saves the world stuff that removes meaningful choices beyond succeed and fail for the players. Oookay. I think this time the cantankerousness is outweighing the useful advice portion of his column. Not that there isn't something to be said for learning the ropes with smaller scale stories, and moving up as you gain experience as both a player and a character. But the experienced DM teaching a bunch of less experienced players can often be less fun than everyone learning together. I suppose it's probably different if Gary's the one doing the teaching, since he pretty much does this professionally by now. But this isn't the most coherent of his complaints. Not everything he's produced was gold, and I think this is worth ignoring, and moving onto the next article. profiles (no capitalization at all this time): Since our first two profilees in this new era were the other two primary designers of 3e, it's no surprise that Skip Williams is the third. Starting to work in the industry way back in 1976, he's worked his way up until he's one of the most all-round experienced people in the company. He got the job of being the point man for the new monster manual, choosing who made the cut, who didn't, and who was subsumed into the nifty new template system. Finally, you can mix and match classes, races, and erm, crossbreeds with other races with wild abandon. And despite his senior position, he still finds the time to be the same badass sage he's been for 13 years now. Unfortunately, he doesn't make the time to do any actual gaming, and his fingers look kinda stubby, but I guess no-one's perfect. He still has plenty of awesomesauce to pour into the pot of gaming in the next few years. Tim Hildebrandt gives us another collection of expensive limited edition jeweled miniatures. Nodwick has some amusing role reversal. Previews: Say goodbye to detailed ecology and full page spreads in the new monster manual. Instead, get ready for high intensity badassedness, scaling, templates, and tons of things ready to be used as PC races from go. Get ready to customise! If you do it right, your players'll never know what to expect from their opponents again. Looks like the realms aren't really taking a break after all. Into the Dragons lair gives you a new adventure, and a whole load of hints as to how things will change. Another attempt to snag the impatient impulse buyer wanting to buy more stuff along with the corebooks. R. A. Salvadore also releases a new Drizzt book. Sevant of the Shard. Actually, it seems like this one features Entreri more, but hey, Drizzt'll probably make some appearances. Dragonlance stays system free on the other hand. Bertrem's guide to the age of mortals helps fill in more setting details for novel readers and gamers alike. Like leaves from the inn of the last home, much of this is sorta IC, and may be fallible if your DM is feeling sadistic. And it seems like Alternity still hasn't finished winding down, with Xenoforms, the Dark Matter monster manual. Hey ho. Looks like this one goes into rather more detail on each creature than it's D&D counterpart.</blockquote>

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