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I must admit, I'm not a big fan of fiction in the magazine. I just never seem to read them, so I guess I consider it to be wasted space. Certain authors or characters, of course, I will probably always at least skim the fiction. But unless there's a good reason for the story to be there or it fits the theme of the issue, it just doesn't appeal to me.

Don't get me wrong, I am an avid reader. (I even work in a bookstore!) But, I guess I'm just very picky about which authors I read and not many of the authors I've seen in the magazine over the years have interested me. (One notable recent exception being George R.R. Martin.)

Still, 3-4 short stories a year sounds like a happy medium. I realize that, while it's not to my taste, as the original poster of this thread shows, there is certainly an audience for it. If it helps bring in new players or even reinvigorates some of us old players, then that's all good.

I'm sorry to say that I never saw the D&D movie. The bad reviews and the snippets in Dragon magazine that I saw were enough to keep me away.

But if a new film were to be made in the wake of the LotR trilogy? With such an influence, any D&D movie can only be better than the last, right?

Well, let's hope so.

I agree that this is definitely one of the best articles to come along in quite some time. The fact that the author took an existing part of the game and showed the reader how to utilize it more effectively, that's the type of article that is the most useful to those who can only afford the core books! Plus, I'm tired of seeing all-humanoid shaped skeletons and zombies in books and games. Hopefully, this article will point people in another direction.

More articles like this could only improve the magazine!