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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6190098" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 336: October 2005part 5/7Bazaar of the Bizarre: Looks like we're getting icky-bad in here as well this month. But not in an undead way, curiously enough. Instead, it's a more fiendish slant again. So look forward to more stuff that the enemies can use with impunity, but PC's may regret. Blasphemous Figurines of the Void are the eevil variant on the usual ones of wondrous power. Although they're more Ancient spirits of evil, transform this decayed form into Mumm-Ra, the everliving! Braaaaaagh! than genuinely diabolical. Spoiling food? Who bothers with that if you're not in a siege situation? The Brush of the Fallen Master lets you paint amazing paintings, but gradually kills you in the process. Don't waste it on redecorating the house. Probably the way to profit from this would be to become the agent of the person who owns the brush and profit hugely from them posthumously while passing it onto the next sucker. The Carnivorous Tome sucks you in and writes out your life. Pretty sure we've had this one before. The visuals are recycled from Dahlver-nar's stuff, for no apparent reason. You don't want to give yourself away if you're an evil book. Fiendish Elixir gives you the basic benefits of being devilish or demonic, but will of course also make you ping as horribly evil even if not. Watch for awkward misunderstandings. The Mask of Endless Laughter warps things from happiness into joker-esque horror, and kills you laughing if you take it off. Poor jack. I knew him well. Oh well, on with the show. A Parasitic Twin helps you get ahead in evil. No thanks. I've seen how this one ends, and it sure aint a happy one. Plus the whole no privacy thing. You really don't want something like that on your neck commenting while you're having sex. Sacrificial Knives work like a death knell spell, letting you profit even more from slaughter. Not nearly as cool as the one which let you make other people pay your item creation costs though. A Staff of Nightmares has a whole bunch of terror related spells available for various charge costs. Another one a wizard'll get a lot of fun out of before it runs out. The demonomicon of Iggwilv diverts itself away from looking at demons, to look at the person behind actually writing the book. Our delightful witch queen is another of the people who goes right back to the early days of the hobby. Mother of Iuz, lover of Grazzt, and quite possibly a number of other powerful demons, she's one of the few people to not only deal with archdemons, but also mix business with pleasure and still come out even or better. Along with the history, we have 7 new spells (well, mostly old spells converted to the new edition, actually ) which you use to summon, bind, manipulate and discipline extraplanar gribleys. Substantially smaller than the last couple, this also feels as though less effort has been put into advancing it forward, merely recounting history rather than advancing it. Still, if you like a bit of vile darkness in your game, there's a fair amount of usable material in here, so it's still a decent entry, if not a great one.</blockquote>

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