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What's your favorite campaign setting?

Edit: Greyhawk was originally accidentally omitted from the poll options. If you voted for "Other" instead of Greyhawk, you can change your vote.

(It might take awhile for the Greyhawk option to reappear.)

You forgot BIRTHRIGHT/Cerilia, AL-QADIM/Zakhara, and JAKANDOR.

IRON KINGDOMS is neither a TSR nor WotC branded setting.

It still is, and always will be, but WotC is too scared to delve back into it again because it didn't do well practically a whole generation ago.

I don't understand why sales from the 80s is going to affect sales of 2007+, especially now that many people are acceptable and enjoy of oriental culture, japanese anime is mainstream, and a lot of gamers do not agree that the default setting for D&D is "Medieval-only". Bringing back Kara-Tur would be a wonderful way for WotC to bring a lot more continued interest in the game if they release Kara-Tur as not only a Forgotten Realms subsetting, but release a guidebook on the web or within the pages of a Kara-Tur book on how to simply adapt it to a general OA setting.

As much as I'd like to have the setting back, I'm afraid WotC might "westernize" the setting for the US mainland customers. IOW, it will be a Eurocentric setting in Asian wardrobes and architecture.

Also the fact that you mentioned anime is recognized by mainstream, that too I do not want injected into Kara-Tur. I can handle Wuxia,* Chanbara,* and Jidai Geki,* but not anime.

Mahalo from Hawaii.

*Go and google them for their meanings.

Anyway, $1 burgers are highly processed food and are not good for you, Paizo are actually helping your health and diet by putting the price up :) You should thank them for the extra years of life you will have by eating a dozen less mashed cow bits burgers per year :)

By making me starve?

#345 better be damn edible ... and nutritious.

;-)

Actually... the Canadian newsstand price is staying at $9.99 CAD. The USD-CAD exchange rate had changed pretty significantly since we last revisited magazine pricing, so leaving it alone actually corrects it. :-)

-Vic.
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So, up until now you've been robbing them po' folks up in the North.

Shiny. I feel so much better, I could pay full price at my FLGS. ;-)

At least the Canadian price is reasonable now (or did that rise too?). Time to buy an extra year of Dragon methinks.

Oh, no. Canada is not getting off that easy.

;-)

As I said elsewhere: Oh no, a dollar.

If I see you living on the streets as a result of this latest price blowout, REG, I'll buy you the latest issue, okay? :)

I'd settle for a Whopper Jr. which is what I'm going to be eating one less every month from here on in.

;-)

All prices must go up eventually. Are the subscription prices going up as well?

I hope so. I'm not going to suffer this by myself.

;-)

Them ladies magazines like Vogue are like, 75% ads . . .

I said "thick as Vogue, not "have the same content as Vogue."

;)

What the hell happened?

There better be an increase in pages per issue from here on in. (I'm thinking as thick as them ladies' magazine like Vogue.)

Remember who writes "Wizards Three." Mr. Greenwood is old-school, and while he undoubtedly knows about Eberron, my guess is he knows a lot more about Greyhawk and Dragonlance. And maybe a few things about Forgotten Realms as well. ;)

Yeah, like Piers Anthony knows maybe a few things about Xanth.

:P

Rautheene replaced Dalamar back when Krynn was "stolen" by Takhisis,...

Ah. Funny how you could live on Krynn and never knew the world was stolen at the time.

Who is the wizard Rautheene mentioned in the "Wizards Three" article?

I'm guessing the wizard is from Eberron.

Sighs. I'm gonna miss Dalamar.

Exactly how many pages will this issue contain ... and how much of them are covered by advertisement?

I notice they are reviving and updating old modules of the 1970's and 1980's. This is a good start for the new and improved DUNGEON. Do more of those adventure module updates and I'd be more inclined to pick up DUNGEON for nostalgia's sake.

Try to do the Tower of Inverness and Destiny of King.

And for the FR fans, Under Illefarn.

My first impression?

Meh.

Granted, there are some improvements including the removal of short fiction (now getting a full magazine treatment in AMAZING STORIES), the launch of one-page tip articles for each core classes, the return of the Ecology column, etc. but it is not enough for me to say "wow." Not even an unenthusiastic "wow."

And ever since you unveiled the new title art for DRAGON and DUNGEON magazine, I'm still not embracing it. One can hope I will be desensitized to it by the end of this year.

While I do find the "Samurai vs. Knight" article interesting, it is apparent the author (or DRAGON editor) decided NOT to reveal the outcome of the duel. Meh.

Oh, and just so you know, I'm still a bit miffed at your decision to cancel POLYHEDRON. For that, you will never win me over completely.