Previews for Dungeon 143 and Dragon 352

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The Yrthak? Is this a matter of running out of ecology topics (perhaps due to a reluctance to revisit even decades-old topics) or am I the only one who finds this to be a really uncompelling alien thingy?

 

[Alzrius]

The Yrthak? Is this a matter of running out of ecology topics (perhaps due to a reluctance to revisit even decades-old topics) or am I the only one who finds this to be a really uncompelling alien thingy?

Isn't that the sort of attitude that these ecology articles are supposed to address? I mean, the mooncalf was just a sort of uncompelling alien thingy too, but its ecology article was very interesting and evocative.

 

[Mouseferatu]

It's about pure, undistilled awesome. The setting is New Crobuzon, a nightmare steam-and-sorcery Dickensian London populated by scientific thaumaturgists, a totalitarian government, and a seething rabble of slums and sewers. The homeless have built a god in the junkyard, trows lurk in the sewers, and criminals are grafted with mechanical and animal parts as half punishment, half art. Possibly the most wonderfully vivid and horrible setting of a fantasy book I've read in forever, and with a decided undercurrent of tribute to D&D (the main character in the novel hires a band of adventurers, described as "thugs who would do anything for gold and experience").

The publisher ought to send you a check, since your description just earned them a sale on a book I never had any intention of buying.

 

[Swordsage]

Ahh.. that is where you are wrong. Every issue from 351 and on will have FR and Eberron content.

Jason Bulmahn
Managing Editor of Dragon

FR content EVERY issue? Subscription here I come.

The Swordsage

 

[Nightfall]

*will wait and see for now...* But if it does have some FR content, good. I just want more Demonimicon stuff too!

 

[Erik Mona]

Again, no FR content

Not true. There will be an FR article in Dragon 351, and then in every subsequent issue for the near future. We're starting a new column that will cover a variety of subjects each and every month.

--Erik

 

[BOZ]

interesting!

 

[Erik Mona]

We made the Mieville article (which does indeed take up most of the issue) very applicable to all kinds of campaigns, with tons of lootable bits like items and technology. I think there's enough there to please even folks who don't particularly care for his novels. I'm very excited about it. Both China and Wolf have been great to work with. We'll even be publishing the first-ever maps of his world, which is REALLY exciting to me as a fan of his wonderful setting. Wolf did a bang-up job on it, and it's going to be absolutely incredible.

--Erik

 

[Banshee16]

We made the Mieville article (which does indeed take up most of the issue) very applicable to all kinds of campaigns, with tons of lootable bits like items and technology. I think there's enough there to please even folks who don't particularly care for his novels. I'm very excited about it. Both China and Wolf have been great to work with. We'll even be publishing the first-ever maps of his world, which is REALLY exciting to me as a fan of his wonderful setting. Wolf did a bang-up job on it, and it's going to be absolutely incredible.

--Erik

Any chance that this article will have stats for the Slake Moths? As well as Kepry, Cray, Garuda, and Cactacae?

Banshee

 

[Nightfall]

*just wants info on the growing power of Orcus in the Realms.*