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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6077591" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 305: March 2003part 9/9Sage advice: Can you deliver a touch spell by touching an enemies weapon (Sorta. Given the nature of abstract combat, you can't control what you're touching. It could be any part of their body. Unless you hold your action and attack them when they attack you with reach. )How often can a tiger rake (No more than once per round) Does someone in the way of lightning bolt stop it. (People are not objects. Unless you fill the entire square and those around, it goes through you, and onto the next sucker. )How does an undead barbarian rage (With his charisma score. Ooooh, scary.)How real is a shadow wall of force (40% real. 40% likely to stop things from passing through it. Including you. Shoddy workmanship, really)How does searing light work against incorporeal creatures (Normal miss chance, Skip's afraid. If it does extra damage on a hit, that just makes missing with it all the more frustrating. Real sunlight has no miss chance, however.) Does uncanny dodge let you keep your dex bonus. (Against anything but full-on immobilization, yes. If that's still not clear enough, skip will check off all the conditions. Skip hopes that is sufficient to satisfy.)Does armour affect your encumbrance (yes)Gruntharg the barbarian wants to smash with lots of weapons at once! How quick Gruntharg throw one, then start using other in both hands (Blah example one blah example two blah example three blah blah bla... Gruntharg bored! Gruntharg smash boring Skip! :bang!: Skip thinks not. Skip grew up on the mean shores of lake geneva. Skip is not going to let some young punk like you outdraw Skip. Skip is the Sage and you will shut yo mouth and wait until Skip is finished. Okay, Skip's finished. See you next month folks. And remember. When everything is so confusing that all you can do is say um. The very best thing for you to do is come on down to Skip's emporium. If you've got questions about magical vestments, or you're getting bored with your rules lawyers talk. Just gimme a call, or send me a letter. You don't you're a fool, there's no-one better. Satisfaction guaranteed, especially for the laydees :teeth ting: Established '87, You can take it as a given, that we'll make your game run smooth as SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLK. (dubba da dum ))Dork tower tries it's hand at D20 modern. Things go ever so slightly better than the last time they tried present day stuff. Fiction: The arms of the Kraken by George R R Martin. 21 pages? I do believe that's the longest story they've printed in a single issue. Not quite the longest article, but certainly in the top percentile. They must have quite a bit of regard for him. This is basically just an excerpt from his upcoming book though, showing that despite getting a different author in to their usual stable, they're continuing their depressingly overcommercialised treatment of this department. Oh well. At least the story itself is pretty interestingly brutal, with sex, death and religion right up front in the plot. He's never been afraid to show the realities of a life without advanced technology. The setting building is sufficiently dense that you don't need to have read the previous ASoI&F novels to make sense of this, but it probably helps. It definitely showcases the fact that he has a very distinctive writing style, and that he isn't dealing in the sanitised fantasy where you always face foes appropriate to your CR. So while there is a good deal of cynicism here, there's also some genuinely tense plotting, as well as witty banter to break things up and make the exposition more palatable. So I have mixed, but ultimately positive feelings about him showing up here. What could this mean for the magazine as a whole?What's new points out the prices and drawbacks flying has. Superman never had to worry about these. Not sure what to make of this issue. it's mostly by the numbers, but has a couple of really weird bits in it, that I have no idea what to make of. Their choice of covers continues to be fugly, and their writing style has become very homogenised, but there are some nice experiments with the rules as they gear up for the edition change, and of course the big scoop in the fiction department. I guess I'll have to accept yet again that virtually no issues are going to perfect, and only come back and use the good stuff. Oh well, April again next month. Maybe they'll have something surprising in there too.</blockquote>

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