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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6244416" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 354: April 2007part 1/679 (100) pages. An amusingly flippant april issue cover that seems particularly appropriate in hindsight, as this is when the news of the magazine's cancellation hit the forums. And are we worried? Life will go on, and the survivors will adapt. That's how it'll be until the sun burns our entire planet to a crisp, and even then, who knows what might hang on in odd corners of the world. Let's see what this issue contains, apart from the obvious modrons. Scan Quality: Good, indexed, ad-free scan. In this issue:Editorial: Erik's editorial once again indicates he'll be mostly playing it straight throughout this issue, with any humour being of the dry sort that's easily excised from the articles to keep them usable. The fun ought to be something you generate in game, because if you bake the goofy into the setting, you wind up with Dragonlance or Spelljammer, and those didn't end too well. Modrons, on the other hand, might be weird, but the humour in them stems mainly from the fact that they themselves completely lack a sense of humour, and so don't give a <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> that their eminently logical designs look silly to illogical humanoids. So simply including them in the game is humour enough for him. Let's see if this is the right balance to keep people from complaining the way they do every year. (Or if they'll be too busy being upset about the magazine's cancellation anyway to talk about this individual issue. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> ) Scale Mail continues to suck, with the letters just another round of the competing opinions bogaloo. One long letter pissed off at issue 352, and two short ones supporting it. Some people don't want joined-up thinking in their magazine, because it wastes a whole issue if the topic isn't to their taste. This is no fun at all. Did you not get a single silly letter to print this issue? Bring back decent letters and decent fiction, then the magazine would be even better. :sigh:</blockquote>

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