Previews for Dungeon 141 and Dragon 350

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Little blurbs from the latest Previews, which may or may not indicate what will actually end up in the magazines:

December 2006

Dragon 350
This is the milestone 350th issue... and it's all about the magic of Dungeons & Dragons! Delve into magic and death with "Core Beliefs: Wee Jas", learn more about the sorcerers of Eberron from Keith Baker, and discover the Ecology of the Clockwork Horror.

Dungeon 141
This issue features the Savage Tide Adventure Path as it takes to the high seas in “The Sea Wyvern’s Wake", the heroes go to the theater in “Swords of Dragonslake” (with an associated theater company “backdrop” article), and a ten-eyed beholder guards great treasure in “Vlindarian’s Vault”.

Other previews from previous posts:

November 2006

Dragon 349
In this issue, Outlanders and Outsiders collide! A complete "Hordelands Gazetteer" details the horse nomads of the Forgotten Realms, and the Demonomicon of Iggwilv returns with a look at Dagon: Prince of the Darkened Depths.

Dungeon 140
This issue includes the second installment in the highly anticipated "Savage Tide" Adventure Path, as well as “The Return of Graymalkin Academy,” an adventure featuring a wizard’s school reminiscent of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts.

October 2006

Dragon 348
This issue brings Dragon’s popular and long-running horror theme, and is sure to provide scares in the form of Core Beliefs: Vecna, Eberron’s “Horrors of
the Daelkyr,” Ecology of the Wight, and articles on curses and variant vampires.

Dungeon 139
This blockbuster issue marks the beginning of the "Savage Tide" Adventure Path, a 12-issue complete campaign that will take characters from the popular Isle of Dread to the heart of the Abyss for a confrontation with Demogorgon, Prince of Demons! This issue includes a free poster map and all the information you need to kick off the new campaign in style!

September 2006

Dragon 347
Special features on air, earth, fire, and water. Brave the treacherous hazards of the Inner Planes, face off against paraelemental monsters, learn the intriguing history of the Princes of Elemental Good and Evil, and explore Eberron's Sunless Feoral with setting creator Keith Baker.

Dungeon 340
Pit your problem-solving skills against a horde of adventurers in "Challenge of Champions VI," the latest installment of the popular series, and take a trip backwards in Dungeon's past with a revised edition of "Mud Sorcerer's Tomb," ranked the best Dungeon adventure by a panel of experts back in issue #116's popular "30 Greatest Adventures of All Time" feature.
 

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I don't subscribe to Dragon, but I might have to grab #138 for the "Ecology of the wight." If the PCs fail "Champion's Belt" (from Dungeon #128), then Waterdeep might be overrun by wights. ;)
 

Some very nice looking Dungeons and especially nice looking Dragons, (especially Dagon man! His pic in FC I was damn cool.)
 

Looking good for the rest of the year. I gotta admit, I wasn't too jazzed with the 30th anniversary issue nor July's. Mostly bleh, with a great point of the Kostiche article.

One thing that I'm curious about, the art for Eberron in Dragon. Is it representative of the art you find in other Eberron books? While usually art doesn't bother me too much, I find the artwork for the Eberron supplements in Dragon to be completely on the opposite side of my tastes. It's to the point where I don't even bother looking into Eberron simply because I find the art so blech.
 


Hussar, check out the art galleries on the Wizards of the Coast website. I would say - taking the article on the island prison of Dreadhold in Dragon #344 as an example - that the artists Paizo uses are not typical of the interior illustrations from the Eberron books. Here are a few examples from the Eberron Campaign Setting:

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And here are some from the latest release, Secrets of Xen'drik:

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Off the top of my head, I don't think I've ever seen anything by the specific artist Paizo uses, Ramón Pérez, in a published Eberron book.
 


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