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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6076748" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 305: March 2003part 7/93.5 Revision update: They split their attention evenly this month, pointing out one thing they're going to change in each of the three corebooks. In the players handbook, they want to make the combat chapter easier to understand and reference, so fights will be faster and with fewer rules arguments. In the DMG they're including templates for your spell areas, so if you're using minis, you can quickly and easily figure out who's blasted and who's safe. And in the MM they'll be including tactical advice in monster descriptions, so you have a better idea of how to use their powers effectively, and higher level monsters won't be quite so DM dependent in the amount of challenge they offer. All of them sound reasonable enough, even if the last one does feel a bit too much like hand-holding only intended for n00bs. But since they are all solutions to actual complaints, and seem like you can ignore them easily enough, it's hard to complain too much. Just watch you don't make the book too much bigger in the process. Guild secrets: Ha. Our theme for this column is " I was a member before they were big, and now they suck." A weaponsmith's guild that's decided to expand it's recruitment, and get people who actually fight with them regularly as well. Which leads to predictable petty bitchiness which PC's are most likely to be on the receiving end of if they sign up. That's the kind of political fun that's completely real feeling, even in a fantasy universe. How much politics caused is not because people actually disagree in position that much, but merely because our lizard brains need to compete for dominance and status? So whether you're a member or just passing through and completely ignorant of what's going on behind the scenes, there's plenty to drive adventure in this article, and both the general idea and new fighting style feats are easily taken and used in other plots. Plus it's not an idea that's totally beaten into the ground, save perhaps OOC in the letters pages. <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" /> That also adds a few marks.</blockquote>

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