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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6168752" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 330: April 2005part 1/778(108) pages. What time is it? Half past insanity? That means it's Flayer time again! Everyone break out the spinal fluid, and tip a toast to the monster with the most. And the artist too, who obviously paid a lot more attention to the actual description in the books than Rebecca Guay did last time. Let's see if they can similarly balance setting faithfulness and a sense of fun inside. Scan Quality: Excellent, unindexed, ad-free scan. In this issue:From the Editor: Safe to say that Erik has agonised over what to do this month ever since he got the job. And thankfully, it looks like he'll be trying more than his recent predecessors to amuse, even if he hasn't had time to source a whole joke section. Now he just has to hope complaints from the readers or his superiors don't result in it getting scrapped next year. Will they be able to go to town next year, or will it be back to the serious <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />? How much is it up to the readers, and how much is it up to the company? Well, at least I've got a fair amount of hope for this issue now anyway. Scale Mail: Our first letter is one of general praise, but the things that really stand out are the return of Bazaar of the Bizarre, and a request for more big features like the giant maps. People want to feel challenged at least a bit by the things they get, otherwise they aren't really learning anything new. Another request they seem quite likely to grant is a Class Act on swapping out mounts for other tricks for Paladins. Like Wizard's familiars, there's a lot of people who don't want to bother with a squishy and sometimes irritating animal companion. Some schools frown on gaming. Others encourage it, especially if the teachers are also gamers. It's nice to see the good guys (and girls too, in this case) getting into positions of power. Also very nice to see is the fact that their Campaign Classics issue did so well in sales, and got so many positive letters that they're making it a yearly thing each January, along with the april, june and october regulars. At least, as long as Paizo has it, as this cool idea does not survive the transition to electronic issues, for reasons only known to WotC upper management. Somewhat more negative are two letters criticising them for putting articles in the previews that don't actually show up. For all their lead-up times, things can still go wrong at the last minute. The world will never be perfect, no matter how organised you are. And finally, we have an amusing request for a Sage Advice compendium. It would certainly sell, but the question is how the hell you would organise something like that. It's a sufficiently large logistical challenge that they don't feel up to it at the moment. Wimps.</blockquote>

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