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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6258131" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 358: August 2007part 2/6First watch is a full 8 pages long this time. Half of this is a special feature devoted to the cartoon adaption of the first book in the Dragonlance Chronicles. Big names, CGI monsters, fairly faithful to the original plot. And it still wound up a flop. D&D really does not have much luck on the silver screen. Solid products just can't match our own imaginations for sheer coolness. Which is pretty annoying really. Will they ever get it right and manage something both commercially and critically acclaimed? Here's hoping. D&D strips down another big, formerly healthy campaign to it's bare essentials, in Expedition to the ruins of Greyhawk. The castle gets a massive dungeon complex, albeit not totally detailed, plus info on Greyhawk city as well. Exactly how faithful this one is to Gygax's original vision is I'm not sure, but it does seem to contain some of the silly elements of older versions, which is vaguely <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> inducing. What are we to do with these writers? On the D20 side, the biggest news is of course Paizo's own announcement of Pathfinder. They don't give us all the details, mainly because they don't know what WotC has planned for the next edition yet, but they do make it clear that they'll keep on producing kickass adventure paths for the D20 system. They're also releasing D2: Seven Swords of Sin. Another little 32 page adventure for those who like the old format. Still, good luck spotting it on bookshelves. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't half the reason those little adventures don't sell well. Somewhat more impressive is Monte Cook's World of Darkness. People have been making jokes about D20 WoD since the OGL was first released and now they get it. To curiously muted reception, oddly, especially since the actual book is pretty good. Guess the moment is over, people have moved on. Our other RPG this month is Changeling: the Lost. A much darker take on the fae mythology than Changeling: the Dreaming, this proved quite the success, getting quite a few books beyond it's limited run, where the original got cancelled due to poor sales. There are still some successes, even in this period of declining overall sales. Paizo are also exploring several other markets as they try and ensure their survival in the face of losing their big cash cow. Elements of power is a series of magical item cards, for your PC's to make use of. And they're also trying to get back into the fiction market, despite the way Amazing Stories died, with the Planet Stories imprint. Reprints of out of print stories by big authors. That doesn't seem like a bad idea. Supply and demand is a funny thing. I wonder if they'll make them available as .pdfs, which would help with the problem of them going out of print. On the minis side, there's Helldorado. The forces of evil, conquistadores and the church fight for control of the lost city of gold. Sounds quite fun, and possibly a bit tongue in cheek. Maybe Hellboy should make a cameo. And finally, they promote Gen Con Indiana. As usual, there's tons of fun stuff planned, including more than a bit of nongaming stuff. Gary Gygax will make one final appearance (not that they know that yet) and the whole thing will be bigger and better than ever. Or so they hope. It could all go horribly wrong.</blockquote>

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