The Dragon Compendium Volume 1 preview in the new Dragon?

[Baron Opal]

I was under the impression that there were some copyright issues involved, which is why this did not happen earlier. It appears that they have been resolved.

 

[Blood Jester]

I was under the impression that there were some copyright issues involved, which is why this did not happen earlier. It appears that they have been resolved.

Those were caused by trying to reprint/reproduce the entire magazines on CD. Not all of the material could be used.

Here, if they are hand-picking articles, they can pick only ones that they have/can get permission for.

 

[Kanegrundar]

I'm with Psion: Rock. On.

I'd also have to give a nod to seeing the Rakasta and Lupin sub-races articles. Those were a bit overkill, but great nonetheless.

I'll for sure be picking this up.

Kane

 

[Felon]

Sold I'd buy it for just the Purple/Yellow/Orange dragons. The rest of it is gravy to me.

So...dragons that are different-colored and have a slightly variant breath weapons? This is all new to me, so can anyone explain where the big whoopage is? What's a deathmaster?

 

[Alzrius]

So...dragons that are different-colored and have a slightly variant breath weapons? This is all new to me, so can anyone explain where the big whoopage is?

Well, all dragons are basically different colored with a different breath weapon, so it's not that they're some radical new redefinition of that. Rather, the idea is that those colors (yellow, orange, and purple) complete the color schema; you have all the primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) and secondary colors (red and yellow is orange, red and blue is purple, yellow and blue is green).

As I recall, the article presented some pretty cool ideas for how those dragons came to be, such as dragons of different colors that mate can produce dragons of a mixed color, or that Tiamat had something to do with it.

 

[Arbiter of Wyrms]

it occurs to me that while the two probably don't need to be merged, it might be helpful to link between this thread and the thread that made this product possible: Erik Mona's "What have your favorite articles from Dragon Magazine been?"
http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=76174&page=1&pp=40

 

[Psion]

/me never did care for attempts to flesh out chomatic dragons into a "spectrum"

But I am still quite on-board.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Material updated to the current edition is fantastic. Interestingly, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say oddly, enough, some of the articles I remember most vividly and actually used the most for D&D have been more or less included in the current edition - the appearance of classes like Antipaladins (now called Blackguards), Berserkers (subsumed under the Barbarian class), and Barbarians being the most notable. Even stuff like the Bounty Hunter have been covered in the new game in some way, if obliquely.

I'd love to see an update of that big Witch article (the issue number eludes me, as I don't have my Dragon CD-ROM handy, but the cover was criticized for having an essentially nude woman kneeling on an altar in the moonlight).

 

[Felon]

Well, all dragons are basically different colored with a different breath weapon, so it's not that they're some radical new redefinition of that. Rather, the idea is that those colors (yellow, orange, and purple) complete the color schema; you have all the primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) and secondary colors (red and yellow is orange, red and blue is purple, yellow and blue is green).

OK, that's what I thought.

So, what's a deathmaster?

 

[Mercule]

What's a deathmaster?

Extremely abreviated version: Think Dragon Disciple. Now, replace "Half-Dragon" with "Lich".

Which is why I said it would make a better PrC in 3.5 than a base class. It's also cooler than it sounds.