Hi collective posters,
Is there a list of Dragon Magazines AoW resources, including the issue # and what is included? I'd like to go back and get a few, but some of it looks a bit peripheral, and I don't want to buy the issues that arn't really worth it for just the Aow info.
In essence: which issues do you think I should get for My AoW campaign needs?
Thanks,
Qualidar~
er....anyone?
Director of Games
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Hi collective posters,
Is there a list of Dragon Magazines AoW resources, including the issue # and what is included? I'd like to go back and get a few, but some of it looks a bit peripheral, and I don't want to buy the issues that arn't really worth it for just the Aow info.
In essence: which issues do you think I should get for My AoW campaign needs?
Thanks,
Qualidar~
Well.. I think they are all pretty fantastic... so I cannot advise you in that regard, however.. I can give you the following info.
The articles started in issue #333 and run through issue #344. Issue #336 includes a valuable ecology on the Spawn of Kyuss, and issue #343 includes Kyuss spells.
Hope that helps
Jason Bulmahn
Managing Editor of Dragon
Apologizing in advance for the hijack. Jason, I love the hex dragon in the current Dragon issue, and plan on using it to replace the black dragon in my AoW campaign (my players have fought one before). Is there any way to get a jpg of the dragon? I've got a scanner but it doesn't work as well as I would like. If the jpg isn't available, can I get the artist's name? Maybe I could contact him/her. Thanks!
Edit: scratch that. Found it right there on your site. Cool!
http://paizo.com/dragon/products/issues/2006/343
Thanks Jason.
~Qualidar~
I must disagree with the wormfood articles, they are one of the only AOW/AP products that I do not think are worth it, nevertheless here is a quick summary of the ones I have...
Issue 333 has a abandoned building that the PC's might use as a "home base". This had absolutely zero use in my campaign (and I suspect others) because of several reasons: the pcs live in DL so they probably have a house there anyways, Whispering Cairn does not take many days to complete, PC's usually know how to sleep in a house anyways. And btw you can always make a square room and say thats the base!
Issue 335 has some NPC's the pc's may want to hire/take on, neat idea but often PC's want a specific type of NPC to fill in their weaknesses(e.g. Healer / Mage). The 3 Npcs are a fighter, a ranger and a cleric. If your looking for an NPC this might be usefull. This issue also has a lot about the Lizardfolk, which should help you for adventure 3, this is actually pretty usefull (sadly for the DM, not for the playyers!) If you want to make the lizardfolk interesting take a look at this.
Issue 336 has Ecology of the Spawn of Kyuss, I did not use this much as of yet, as my players do not seem to ask a lot of questions on the undead (they simply kill them!). This issue also has a night on the town in the Free city. If you do not have a city your going to use you may want this stuff to make the city more realistic, I would recommend just buying a city setting. I chose Greyhawk and bought the "Adventure Begins" book, had all I need.
Issue 337 has some ideas on where to buy Magic items in the Free city.
Issue 339 has a magic item fountain in Manzorians tower. It always confuses me why Dragon insists on putting purely DM content in their magazine. This really should have been in the Dungeon adventure. No matter I probably wouldnt use it in my campaign anyways... Its a fountain that gives the players 1 random good power and 1 random bad power (actually they can choose either the good or the bad power and get the other random).
Issue 341 has "High Level Wilderness Exploration". I guess it tells the PC's how to better explore... Yawn
Issue 342 has some magic items the PCs could find in the Order of Storms adventure, cool magic items that I will probably introduce. I would however be quite annoyed if my players said "hey this is that item from pg 131 in dragon right? Why didnt you give me the one from pg 132?". Good thing my players dont read Dragon.
I pretty much stopped buying them because they were not worth it just for AOW.... but if I had more bucks I might buy a subscription! Anyways, of all the dragons I bought exactly none of the wormfood articles have been neccessary... The ecology of the Lizard Folk/Spawn of Kyuss articles were nice to read however.