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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 5928865" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 279: January 2001part 1/7116 pages. Elves get a themed issue straight after Dwarves? My degree of surprise is infinitesimal. Thought you'd get complaints if you waited even a couple of months to heighten the anticipation? Probably right too. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Let's see if they'll be getting twinked new crunch, or just fluffy system free articles that could have been submitted any time in the past few years. Even with a life as long as theirs, you don't want to hang around getting bored. Scan Quality: Good, unindexed, a few colouring glitches. In this issue:Wyrms turn: Straight away, we talk about the difficulty of accurately portraying creatures that have such long lifespans. Sometimes they suffer from ennui. Sometimes they're aloof, as they don't want to be hurt when their shorter-lived companions keep on dying. Sometimes they're perpetual kids, playful and whimsical throughout eternity no matter how much <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> gets thrown at them. Sometimes they're just plain alien. Who's to say which is most accurate, given that they're purely fantasy creatures anyway. I once again wish we would hurry up and create life extension methods, so we can see how people do act when given the promise of eternity in a young healthy body as long as they don't get killed by violence or accident. Let's avoid the accusations of badwrongfun until then, shall we. It might make sense for real world genders and ethnicities, but you aren't going to get the Elf Liberation Front jumping down your throat if you portray them wrong.  Scale Mail: We start off with someone who's pleased with the quality of the articles recently, but not the layout. Yeah, they've been getting that a lot. They're still fiddling with it, trying to get something that looks distinctive without enraging people. Second, we have someone annoyed at graphic visuals in their adverts. What a bunch of wusses. Let them spend their money. It does not mean you have to buy the stuff advertised, or even pay any attention too it. We then have someone raging about the canon police. Do not create new climate or terrain types for your monsters to dwell in? What kind of instruction is that?! Unless the existing ones are sufficiently broad as to be all-inclusive, that's a rule that begs to be broken. Another person joins the ranks of those who think there's too much forgotten realms stuff in the magazine. Sorry. It started there, and it's not giving up it's place without a fight. If you really want to beat it, you need to control your own means of distribution. On the other hand, we've got some happy customers as a result of the steampunk issue. Thank god for that, given all the complaints Alternity got in it's final year. They also seem to be happy about the introduction of prestige classes. Oh, don't worry, you'll be seeing waaaay more of those, until you're mighty sick of them. Actually, I ought to count up how many kits 2e did, so I can see when they get overtaken in the magazine by prestige classes. Gimme a few hours. Hmm. I count 159. They need to average slightly under 2 per issue to beat that before the magazine ends. The target is set. We then have a complaint about agism in the magazine. Since Gary's the founder of D&D, everyone else is a young'un in his eyes. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Don't read too much into it. An amusing letter in which they like the new edition, but feel like they're betraying the old one by switching. Love is a many splendored, and often silly thing. Don't worry, you can do both on different days. The rage mage gets it's errata sorted out. Silly writers copy and pasting without changing things. And finally, the German correspondent returns another positive verdict, and asks when they'll be doing some psionic stuff for the new edition. Not long, not long at all. It's always had a fairly good niche, so it's one of the first things they scheduled. Bust busy busy.</blockquote>

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