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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6255090" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 357: July 2007part 2/6First watch: Another year, another Monster Manual. The 5th one, to be precise. As with the 4th one, it's not just monsters, but ways to use them, places to use them in, and info on how much you know about them if you roll your knowledge DC's. Yay for progress. Well, sometimes. Slightly less welcome is Shadowdale: The scouring of the land. Part two of our big changeover adventure trilogy. How the devil did the Zhentarim get control of this in the first place so it needs scouring? Elminster take an extended holiday again, the lazy bugger? On the computer game side, they announce an expansion for Neverwinter nights II - Mask of the Betrayer. Head into epic level territory with a pretty cool plotline, amusing character banter and definite parallels with Planescape: Torment. Another computer RPG out shortly is Blue Dragon. Cutesy characters, huge swords, and weird monsters mark this out as a typical JRPG. And of course, the back-end shows substantial Tabletop ancestry. Or children will inherit the earth indeed. Not very surprisingly, we get another bit of promotion for their new minis set. The Night below does seem surprisingly unfocussed for a release so far into the product schedule. Perhaps they're just trying to fill in ones they missed in previous sets. McFarlaine Toys, on the other hand is as focussed as ever. 6 inch dragons. You buy the 6 inch dragons. Not 5 inch, not 7 inch, 6 inch. Just the right size, yes? Out in D20 land, they promote something else long before it's released. A song of Ice and Fire is getting an RPG. Since GRRM already had Wild Cards converted, this isn't too huge a surprise. Keep those geeky connections open. Even more interesting than that is the birth of Kobold Quarterly, which is probably the spiritual successor to this magazine, and managed a good few years before folding (and passing that mantle to Gygax magazine). As the magazine draws to a close, it's good to see them providing their support to work like this. Further RPG's this month are a new edition of Faery's Tale, and White Wolf's Scion. Two quite different products, but both allow for pretty fantastical adventures. Will you choose simple and whimsical, or epic, crunchy, and a bit clunky? Interesting choice. A rather meta product is Green Ronin's Hobby games: the 100 best. A whole bunch of people from not just RPG's, but gaming in general, contribute to this, including Gary Gygax himself. Will model railroad games be involved? <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" />Once again, ENWorld's influence on the hobby is noted, with a callout the the ENnies. Seems like they're expanding their categories for awards again. The rewards of success. Watch out for the corruption allegations. And finally, we have another bit of promotion, this time for NASCRAG, the national society of crazed gamers. Erm, ok then. Silly tournaments? Anything to remind people that gaming shouldn't be Serious Business all the time. As is often the case, all I have to say to this is buh. The lengths people go too. :shrug:</blockquote>

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