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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6193750" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 337: November 2005part 2/7First watch: The Forgotten Realms continues a longstanding tradition of having it's own specific incarnations of general splatbooks. Champions of Valor is their parallel to the Book of Exalted deeds. I'll bet the Harpers are involved somewhere. Hellspike prison is another adventure that's also designed to be friendly to the D&D minis game. Gotta keep that cross-promotion going. Small, but full of extras, this looks like it should support a few dramatic fights. They also release the Dragon Compendium. Well, paizo do, but it's still got the official D&D logo on it. A whole load of well loved stuff from old editions updated to 3rd ed. This should be the very last thing I review in this thread. Look forward to it. In D20 Green Ronin release the Advanced Race codex. Once again, this looks more interesting than it's official D&D counterparts. There's also a reprint of the Witchfire adventures, and two new books for the Thieves World setting, filling out the main city and the lands surrounding it. And there's also Etherscope, for those of you who want something new to fill your brain with. Another victorian magical Steampunk setting? Seems to be quite the fad around this time. In videogames, there is the Rifts Nokia N-Gage game. Bwuh? Of all the platforms to choose, you walk into this joint. How did this happen? Will we ever see a Rifts movie? Damned if I know. Two other established franchises get new instalments. Dragon Quest 8 and Castlevania: Curse of Darkness. No-one defeats Dracula for long. He just keeps coming back. Speaking of oh sweet jesus, there's also the second D&D movie - Wrath of the Dragon God. Well, it's probably better than the first one. But no scenery chewing Jeremy Irons to liven things up. In any case, I still have no desire at all to see this. In minis, they're still promoting the same stuff they were last month, the underdark series of official stuff. Yawn. There's also some M:tG ones as well, and another collection of potential floors for all these guys to fight on. Put together your prefab stuff, and hope it's all the right scale. Our boardgame this month is Hunting Party, another game where the roleplaying part is mostly removed from your dungeoneering and exploring, and replayability is facilitated by randomness. And you can probably mine some of the bits for your actual roleplaying too. Finally, they expand their remit again, to promote Edhellen Armory's line of LARP gear. If you want elf (vulcan) ears, harmless but impressive looking swords, and hey nonny nonny gear, you have a place to go now. And that's probably the last we'll hear of that for another year or two.</blockquote>

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