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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 5937772" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 280: February 2001part 1/7116 pages. The price goes up to $5.99. Knew it couldn't last forever. Inflation is an annoying fact of life in an economic system based around perpetual expansion, and even collapse won't stop people industriously rebuilding again, making the same mistakes. The theme, on the other hand is brand new. They're giving sorcerers an issue in the spotlight, showcasing the spontaneous magic that many people dreamed of being able to do, but couldn't using AD&D rules. So let's blast our way through this issue using excessive force, and exhaust our liberal supplies of spells. After all, they all come back easily enough tomorrow. It's not like it takes longer the more spells you have to memorise anymore. <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" /> Scan Quality: Ok, unindexed. In this issue:Wyrms turn: Unsurprisingly, the editorial apologises for having to raise prices, and encourages you to subscribe now, before they raise the prices for that as well. They will try to put more cool bits and pieces in to make up for that, but I suspect many of those won't make it to the electronic format. In addition, the plan to add d20 material to the magazine didn't go as they say here, with that being merged with Dungeon rather than Dragon. (which means I won't get to review it) This is one of those reminders that they aren't free to publish what they choose, but bound up by a larger corporate structure that can mandate big changes if they please, and make the staff go along with them. Such is the price you pay to play in the big leagues. We'll go along with it, but not without a good few grumbles. Scale Mail: Our first letter strongly praises Tracey Hickman for his recent roleplaying advice. Sacrifice your character for the greater glory of the group! He'll be back soon. Second, we have one Justin Carmical writing in to praise the odd fonts they've used recently. Jew Wario?! Seems quite probable, since I know he's another TGWTG gamer, even if his show is more about computer games. Googling says he was indeed part of the Star Trek fanclub chapter of Tallahassee around that time. That IS a turnup for the books, and shows how small the internet can make the world seem, and how multifarious his geeky interests are. Our next suggestion is more mundane. Put some landscape posters of the right scale to make a good minis battleground in the magazine. That's certainly a decent idea to put in the slush pile. Another request is for full stats for Lidda, Mialee & co. That's one they'll definitely get round too at some point. Turning their cover logo into a full font, on the other hand, they may well not have the time to do. Completely unsurprisingly, someone praises the dwarf issue, and asks for an elf one to follow it. If you'd checked the previews you'd already have known it was right around the corner. Pay attention! It's people like you who clog up Sage Advice with questions he's already answered. Yet another person says they like the articles, but dislike the dungeonpunk visuals that have come with them. This looks to be one complaint that'll run and run and run. The Realms continues to have an enthusiastic fanbase who want all the articles and books from the old edition updated to the new. Steady there. We could do that for years, and we'd never have a chance to add on new stuff. We'll stick to bringing back the good bits, thank you very much.Our next request is for them to bring back the Bladesinger. We're onto your games, sonny jim. It'll be back, but don't expect it to be overpowered like last edition. <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" /> How dumb do you think we are?A rather more surprising request is for them to not put spoilers for modern modules in Nodwick. The old ones are OK, as everyone ought to have read them anyway, but we might want to actually play these ones. I find this very very amusing, but I know some people take spoilers seriously. And so the editors decide to indulge that request. Finally, (and this letters column has felt pretty long) is a letter from someone who's been wargaming for decades, but only now tried out D&D with the new edition. Guess they have made it more accessible to get into than it was for quite a while. The evidence keeps mounting up.</blockquote>

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