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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6239340" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 352: February 2007part 2/6First watch: The environmentbook series proves that like the classbook one, it's stretching rather to think of things to do, with Dungeonscape. It's not as if we haven't had quite few books of dungeonering. Still, this one is co-written by Rich Burlew, so it might have some cool ideas and twists in it. Any opinions? Eberron gets Secrets of Sarlona. Another entire continent, this one full of psionicists, martial artists, and other weird powers of various stripes. Eberron is a big world, and if you stretch out all the elements enough, then it looks less like a kitchen sink. They also release another generic adventure. Barrow of the Forgotten King is the start of a trilogy. Been a while since I've seen one of those here. In the 90's you couldn't move for them. Another sign of the changing face of the hobby. Minis Official and unofficial pour forth from company's bounteous hands. D&D's latest minis set focusses on the undead. Always a solid choice, especially now templates mean nearly anything can be made undead easily. There's also a bunch of official LotR figurines coming out, although they look like they're more for display than actual battles. If you want something a little more off the wall, there's John Kovalic's My Little Cthulhu. Another brain-breaking idea that makes the elder gods ever less scary in the long run. They really are losing all their impact lately. Out in D20 land, Goodman games advance their nostalgia timeline to the late 90's and release a CD compilation of their early modules. Okey Dokey then. What will they recycle next? Our other RPG release is also a very familiar face. Lankhmar has been bought out by Mongoose, which is releasing it under the Runequest system. Will that be a better fit for the books than D&D? Actually, it probably is. Wonder why WotC decided to stop holding on to this one. It's not as if it isn't still pretty popular and influential. Several very geek appropriate DVD's picked on this time. The last Unicorn gets a special 25th anniversary rerelease, presumably with commentary, and the other special features common to DVDs these days. There's also two more geek specific movies, Gamers, and Geekin' (which works even better as a composite title) One seeks to break the world record for number of hours played, while the other just wants to keep their group together in the face of the dread s e x. <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" /> It is a silly business. Let's not go there. Computer games this month include LotR online, and Lair. An MMORPG drawing on the motherlode of fantasy books, and another dragon fighting sim. Both have pretty good visuals, showing how far things have come in the magazine's lifespan. Just watch out for the grinding, which can be as tedious as ever. They promote the comic projects of Boom Studios. Two sets of Cthulhu mythos stories. And a warhammer comic, Damnation Crusade drawn by Yoshitaka Amano, and foreworded by Neil Gaiman. Once again, they know what they like, and cover what they know. I think we can be pretty sure of the writer's major tastes and influences by now. And finally, we have some rather interesting news. White Wolf has been bought out by CCP. While not quite as dramatic as the TSR/WotC/Hasbro buyout events, this is still going to have a substantial impact on the face of gaming in a few years, as WW's RPG output drops, while many of their writers move to other departments. Sigh. More foreshadowing of the future here.</blockquote>

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