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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6201397" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 339: January 2006part 1/680 (100) pages. The lady of pain gets a boob window! I'm genuinely shocked, particularly since we just had a lengthy streak of letters complaining about sexism. The art department clearly did not get the memo that inappropriate sexualisation is bad and creates a hostile environment for our female readers. Still, at least it's appropriate to the contents, as it's time for another old campaigns special. As with the regular columns, they aren't going to cram in quite as many as they did in their first attempt, but hopefully that means the ones they do will be bigger and more useful. Here's to the power of concentration and never giving up. Scan quality: Somewhat blurry, indexed, ad-free scan. In this issue:Editorial: Erik continues to demonstrate his personal attachment to the old settings, Oerth in particular. Having been a long-term fan who really felt it when they cancelled Greyhawk, he wants to reduce the suffering of everyone out there peeved WotC cancelled their favourite setting.  He might not be able to bring them back to life, but by keeping them alive in our memories, it increases the chance that the next generation of people who write D&D will be inclined to revisit them in one form or another. Makes perfect sense to me. You never know what influence your actions will have on other people in the future, and in the position of a magazine editor with a circulation in the tens of thousands, you can be sure it will have some effect. Use it or lose it, because time sure aint standing still. Scale Mail: As usual, the october issue gets plenty of praise. They already have more than enough good material for this year's one too. Anything else you send them will be just icing on the cake. We have another request for more epic material. They have no great objection to that, but they need more submissions. They ALWAYS need more submissions. The deadline beast is ever-hungry, and they'd rather give it good-quality food if possible. We also have another request about the old boardgames they did. You can still buy many of them, but they won't be producing more in the near future, which is a shame. They may well be doing some more psionics material and fiction in the near future, possibly even together. Again, they want to do it, but it's all up to the writers. They have to find the sweet spot between quality, and people who don't want too much money. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> An amusing suggestion for an april article. Remember, things going spectacularly wrong is often more interesting than them going right. As demonstrated by the amusing bickering in Order of the Stick, which persuaded someone to renew their subscription pronto. Funny how a single page of material can make all the difference in a big magazine. And finally, we continue the endless debate of the fluff/crunch balance in the magazine. Erik reminds us that one cannot truly exist without the other if you want to play a roieplaying game. You'll just have roleplaying, or a game. it's adding the two together that makes it more than the sum of it's parts.</blockquote>

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