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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6169238" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 330: April 2005part 2/7First watch: Another return to a fairly popular series from last edition, only more general, and less detailed. Lords of madness does Aberrations, with a particular focus on the ever popular Aboleths, Beholders and Illithids. As usual these days, we also get prestige classes that make you extra good at killing them. And Races of Eberron continues the splatbooking, giving new crunch for shifters, warforged, and all the rest. Since this isn't rehash, I hope there'll be a decent amount of setting expansion. There's also D&D for dummies. Hoo boy. Not published by WotC, but written by the big writers for the game. Designed to get on bookshelves that the regular books don't, and hopefully lure in some new, or more likely old lapsed players. Interesting business. Another very cool D20 supplement this month. Hamunuptra. A big boxed set full of egyptian coolness. That's a nice turnup for the books. If only we had more of these. Still, it makes the ones we do get even more special. To think that in the 90's I used to take them for granted. Two more bits of aid in your visual representation. Another set of wire radius plotters, to help you with your blasty spells and breath weapons. And if you want something a little more solid, there's Worldworks Games' Chunky Dungeons. We've got plenty of tiles, now you can go 3D for extra visual flair. They do seem rather fond of encouraging you to use these. I suppose it helps keep the support industries in business. Our mini this month ties in with last month's product. Iron Kingdoms is another gameline spinning off in all directions, including this, putting their own spin on classic fantasy tropes and blending them with steampunk. Well, something similar worked pretty well for shadowrun, so why not. The boardgame they've chosen to promote is Arkham Horror. Cthulhu seems to be pretty popular with the current developers, so that's hardly surprising. Can you save the day like the guy who escaped from Innsmouth, or will your sanity be destroyed and the world doomed. Steve Jackson games continues it's conversion from a gaming company, to a more general geeky one, with Munchkin getting supplements and t-shirts. I believe this is another instance where I shrug. And finally, along with the usual cross promotion for their other magazines, they include two competitions here as well. Another thing from a few months ago recurrs, as they give us a chance to win a Genki Gang hat. And Origins has a prestige class competition. I'm sure you have a few of those in your notepads anyway, why not try your luck with them for free stuff. Watch out for the copyright terms.</blockquote>

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