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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6188322" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 336: October 2005part 2/7First watch: Heroes of Horror. A definite case where the third party D20 products covered a topic better than the official WotC attempt. Straight D&D has never done horror very well, largely due to the massive power increases characters enjoy. And this problem has only got worse over the editions. See experienced designers, including a couple of White Wolf alumni, struggle over it here. Eberron gets Magic of Eberron. On we slouch to another proven solid seller. New magical crunch for all! Oh, and some psionics too, so you don't feel left out. Keep on buying, dudes. And they also issue a package set of the Races splatbooks (at least, the generic ones, they decide to skip the ebberon one for whatever reason. ) in a nice slipcover. If you skipped them first time, will that tempt you? Anyone? D20 stuff this time is mostly updates. Mutants & Masterminds gets a 2nd edition, and the old Wilderlands setting from Judges Guild gets updated to D20, which is very fitting, considering it's history. In a boxed set too. Yay for third party products! White Wolf release their big crossover citybook, Chicago by Night. With an emphasis on the big. More than enough info for all three main gamelines here, to say the least. Our boardgame this month is Midevil. Aka the Army of Darkness boardgame with the serial numbers filed off. Kick the ass of tons of skeletons and get back to the present. Another entertaining way to fill a few hours. Minis this month include more official underdark monsters from WotC. Oh, and Artemis Enteri. Canon Pairing! Hot Drizzty buttsecks! Man, that never gets old. There's also Cthulhu creatures courtesy of SOTA, a limited edition gothic fortress full of mini furniture, and steampunky mecha stuff for Iron Kingdoms. Tick tock fill up your box. WotC also chooses to sell off a whole bunch of D&D and M:tG art in limited edition, signed format. I see coffee table conversation pieces are still popular enough to justify their existence. In play aids, we have the Flip-Mat. Another easily erasable gridded, fold-up bit of card to represent places on. Seems like there's quite a bit of competition in this market. In video games, we have Black and White 2. God sims have a long history, and they continue to advance with new technology. And obviously given the title, being a sadistic bastard is very much an option for long term play. Muahahahaha. Finally, we have Horrific, the card game of horror movie archetypes duking it out and terrorising a village as they do so. This also sounds pretty entertaining and replayable.</blockquote>

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