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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Festivus" data-source="post: 3551075" data-attributes="member: 34532">I got this Friday but haven't had much time to go through it.  I do like the quality of the paper over the dragon magazines that housed these originally, far more durable.Memoirs from E. Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz were nice reads, and I guess China Mieville is appropriate (though I don't like him from a D&D standpoint I do from a novel reader standpoint, and he is some kind of uberfan).There is an index of all the ecology articles that appeared in Dragon over the years, which is very helpful.In all, Choker, Chuul, Dracolich, Draconian, Inevitable, Kenku, Kobold, Kraken, Lizardfolk, Night Hag, Rakshasa, Rust Monster, Shadar-Kai, Spawn of Kyuss, Spell Weaver, Will-o'-Wisp all get ecology articles.  Seemed to me like most of these are rather recent articles.There are also some tip of the hat short one page articles on the evolution of iconic monsters: The Beholder, The Githyanki, The Mindflayer, The Displacer Beast Lastly, Erik Mona brings us the monsters of suck, those critters we all would have been better without: Achaierai, Carbuncle, C.I.F.A.L.,  Enveloper, Dire Corby, Flumph, Ogremoch, Gorbel... all in two paragraphs.I am puzzled how there is a blue dragon on the cover but no blue dragon ecology article.So, overall, good quality, nice articles though mostly reprints from Dragon magazine, it is nice to have collected in one place. and the index is fantastic (in fact index goes to issue 359 (Tarrasque), 358 (Kaorti), 357 (Titan), 356 (Linnorm).  So you will truely have a complete index on your hands.</blockquote>

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