New Dragon+ (issue 12): The Inspiration Issue

The tomb preview is great. It has a sidebar about possible places to put it, including the 6 original ones Gygax suggested in Greyhawk. Hopefully those who disliked the other 4 books being set in FR can appreciate their attention to explicitly stating it can be anywhere the DM sets his campaign, and giving the history about where it originally appeared.

 

[Parmandur]

Fair enough, so it seems odd that it seems that they're preventing that this time around (then again, I'm sure replacing the page count with something like that is a more standard policy than I would think).

Guessing the contents of this book isn't quite as fun as Volo's; this one prettyu h is as advertised, I wager; most curious bit may be "where do they suggest to put the adventures in the four main Prime worlds?" But that's only passingly curious...

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[Parmandur]

http://media.wizards.com/2017/dnd/downloads/TYP_Intro0227.pdf

Here is the pdf of the intro from the actual book.

Edit: speaking of page count, has it been mentioned elsewhere that Amazon is listing it at 248 pages?

Yup, product page does, too.

Interesting that there is a sidebar suggesting the use of the Green Dragon Inn in Greyhawk to serve the same purpose as the Yawning Portal...they are providing a bit of flavor, but this is a setting neutral book.

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[Parmandur]

That's a weird page count; aren't books published in multiples of 32?

As for the intro, I think they meant descendants when they said Durnan's ancestors took over the Yawning Portal.

Yup, would normally be 256 pages. To engage in some speculation, 256 -248 = 8: a decent number for fold-out maps?

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[Demetrios1453]

The tomb preview is great. It has a sidebar about possible places to put it, including the 6 original ones Gygax suggested in Greyhawk. Hopefully those who disliked the other 4 books being set in FR can appreciate their attention to explicitly stating it can be anywhere the DM sets his campaign, and giving the history about where it originally appeared.

I definitely agree on that. It's pretty obvious they are going out of their way to ensure that those who might cry foul over classic modules being moved to a different setting have no basis to do so (granted, there will still be those stubborn folks who will assume that they will all be set in the Realms and flat-out refuse to open the book to find their fears are unfounded, but there is little you can do with those types).

Beyond that, I love how the Hidden Shrine art is basically just an (excellent) update of the original module cover, other than it's a different character getting strangled.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Yup, product page does, too.

Odd. I just looked at the product page and do not see a page count at all.

 

[wedgeski]

My players have already booked me as DM for a Tomb of Horrors one-shot. They know the dungeon quite well, so they're going to build a straight-up "Tomb of Horrors"-killer party based on what they can remember. We'll see how that goes!

 

[CapnZapp]

The tomb preview is great. It has a sidebar about possible places to put it, including the 6 original ones Gygax suggested in Greyhawk. Hopefully those who disliked the other 4 books being set in FR can appreciate their attention to explicitly stating it can be anywhere the DM sets his campaign, and giving the history about where it originally appeared.

Looking at the Tomb of Horrors excerpt, it seems they're putting a lot of respect into how the original adventure was written, and warns that it's not suitable for more "kick the door and fight" players.

Here's the direct link to the Tomb of Horrors preview, for those not wanting to muck about with Dragon+

http://media.wizards.com/2017/dnd/dragon/DnD_TYP_211-212.pdf

 

[Birmy]

Having two different articles about the cat person on the cover (three, actually, if you're counting the editor's letter) is a little strange.

 

[Queer Venger]

Im particularly liking the free hi-res downloadable maps feature column, now I have most of the maps for SKT, for FREE!!

 

[Parmandur]

Odd. I just looked at the product page and do not see a page count at all.

It was on there when it was announced?

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