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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6132135" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 318: April 2004part 5/8Children of Ka: A second Hollow World article after the campaign special? Cool! It's by the same writer and on a related topic to the previous one too, allowing them to get a sneaky bit of continuity into the magazine for a change. While that showed us what happened when a god's power was secretly tapped and corrupted, this sees Ka and his followers hitting back, developing a whole range of new druid spells to defend their lands and maintain the balance of nature. One of them is directly dinosaur related, giving you tricerotops horns and the thick skull to use them in a charge to keep up the theme, while most of the others are particularly useful in watery/swampy environments, which makes them highly appropriate for their Lizardfolk creators. In addition to the spells and organisation details, there's also stats for Troodons, which we believe to be one of the smartest dinosaurs back then, and a PC progression for lizardfolk, (and I don't think they really merit LA+1 on top of their HD with such low skill points and unimpressive racial powers. ) making this one of those grab-bags that tries to do it all. And since it's both entertaining, and far more specific than most of them, it does indeed please me. More solid stands on setting details instead of just saying "it's up to you" is very welcome around here. Fiction: The kalif's coffin by Thomas Harlan. One more instalment to go, and the plot is finally all revealed. The bad guys are trying to get all these magical doodads to do a good old-fashioned raising of the dead. And while that was a miracle when Jesus did it, it's an abomination in the hands of anyone else. There's still a lot of conflict between the Christian idea that all magic-users are evil and should be summarily killed, and the more nuanced view that people who actually use magic hold. (and since this is a fantasy story, it's pretty obvious which side the author is on. ) There's a good bit of action in this, but they still have to pause for exposition now and then, and the characters retain their sense of humour despite the seriousness of the situation. It's nearly all over bar the shooting. Now it's just a matter of who lives and dies in the finale. Let's see if this series'll end on an upbeat note or a tragic one.</blockquote>

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