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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6214327" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 343: May 2006part 1/681 (100) pages. A mummy dragon and lots of little baby dragons. That'll make adventurers feel a little less heroic about their brutal slayings. Once again, it looks like monster hunting is our focus this issue. And well they ought to return to it, as it still supplies the majority of our XP, as it has since 1e ended. As usual, let's see if it's advantage players, advantage DM, or all love in here. Scan Quality: Moderate, unindexed, ad-free scan. In this issue: Editorial: Erik's editorial is once again about the 30th anniversary issue, and his ambitious plans for it. Twice now, his plans for landmark issues have been mired down in office politics and compromise, and now he's in the big seat, he's hoping it's third time lucky. Which is reasonable enough. If you've seen your artistic vision crushed several times as you work your way up, a little self-indulgence seems completely understandable. It shows your spirit hasn't been beaten into submission by day-to-day life. So let's hope he'll be able to reminisce positively about this time in his life, rather than with frustration. Sometimes, it would be nice to have things just work out for a change without working yourself so hard to make it happen that you don't really get to appreciate it anyway. Scale Mail: First up, we have a request for more Realms based stuff, templates in particular. Oddly specific, but I suppose that just makes it all the easier to satisfy. Second, we have some talk about the proportion of adverts in the magazine. Those cheap yet glossy magazines you're comparing with are often more than 50% adverts, particularly the women's beauty & gossip ones, which can go over 75% and are basically just mouthpieces for their sponsors, since they're so dependent on them financially. As the DDI shows, Dragon is quite capable of surviving without adverts from other companies. (although they wouldn't be able to pay their writers as much) The issue from 2 months ago gets high praise, as is their habit these days. Also praised is the dragon compendium, along with a request to do more similar stuff in the future. Since it sold out and got reprinted very quickly, they certainly intended to do more. It's just a shame the licence got pulled before they got the chance. They reprint the Valley Elf filk at the request of a reader that barely remembers it. It's funnier than anything they've managed since 2001. I really can't see a similar request for the ecology of the adventurer to be reprinted in 20 years time, unfortunately. And finally, we have another request for them to update not only the mechanics of old settings, but also the timelines. They might slip in a few hints, but solid geopolitical shifts? That'd be too dangerous for them. After all, metaplot is what killed Dark Sun and Planescape, and caused Greyhawk and Dragonlance huge amounts of grief when people disagreed with the changes. These days, they want to play it safe.</blockquote>

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