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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6045274" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 298: August 2002part 2/10Scale Mail: Thomas Harlan's new short story gets some attention first off, with readers curious if there's any more to come. Why absolutely, my dears. Go buy his full books and stuff, and we'll see if we can get any more little stories out of him. Our second letter isn't so positive though, being very pissed off at the mechanics of a particular prestige class. Requiring Rage and Expertise is a suboptimal and stupid requirement, and it's too specific for the concept. They remind you that more than one prestige class can fill the same concept in different ways, and the DM is also free to houserule mechanical details. This will not stop by the RAW obsessives, of course. Two more letters think that the people getting upset about beefcake are silly and insecure. Like putting the odd bit of swearing in, there's a few people who are outraged, while the vast majority simply don't give a damn. Rather more annoying is yet another sign of their slowly closing horizons. It used to be that they had fiction in the magazine virtually every month. Now they're cutting out even that little bit of non D&D material, and only publishing stuff set in their own campaign worlds, or by already published authors. And so the magazine will again become that little bit harder for me to push through without getting bored. At least there's still the minis stuff …… for the moment.Another reminder than nearly anything could be given the chop is a request to bring back Role Models. They've moved it to the web where it's easier to find everything at once. Whether that's the real reason it was removed is another matter. Zogonia shows at least basic competence this time. I guess they're learning. D&D Previews: No D&D products this month, only novels. Once again, it's obvious where the company's priorities lie. Dragonlance gets two of these. The day of the Tempest by Jean Rabe and The Lioness by Nancy Varian Berberick. It may be a new age, but authors are still going to do quite a bit of prequeling in the previous ones. There's also The Living Dead, another straight D&D book, also by T. H. Lain. Is he a ridiculously fast writer, or is this a pseudonym or something?</blockquote>

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