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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6044787" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 298: August 2002part 1/10116 pages. The dodgy covers continue. Man, those dark elves have been whitened up even more than Beyonce. Can't a sista get a realistic positive role model these days? Yup, it's time for another themed issue on the ever-popular drow and their underdark homes. The various core demihumans have been updated to the new edition with various degrees of grimdarking. Will drow be left unchanged, since they're already fairly dark and have a full wardrobe of fetish gear, or will they try and go even further to make them interestingly eeeevil. Guess I'd better turn the pages and be thankful they can't make razor edged ones on electronic books. Scan quality: Slightly fuzzy, unindexed, In this issue:Wyrms Turn: This column is still shrunk to the point of inconsequentiality, and gives us another piece on the joys of reskinning. Change the name and colour palette, and you can make even the most played out monsters seem fresh, at least for an encounter or two. This certainly applies to Drow, who have enough unusual fiddly bits that changing, say, their spell-like abilities or giving them tremorsense instead of darkvision will make an actual difference to the way they play. I guess as usual, the devil (or maybe the demon <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ) is in the details. But there's not enough detail here to make this satisfying reading. Jesse's editorials don't seem to be improving with time at all. If anything, they're getting worse. You know, you could just skip them if you don't have anything to say a particular month. You don't have to bind yourself that tightly to formula if you aren't being forced too by upper management.</blockquote>

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