I love the April edition. I've always been bleh about the corny humor and this Letter from the Editor is going to get framed and hung somewhere prominent!
I love the idea of transitioning from Nacho Cheese Oozes and other relatively game-worthless ideas that aren't really all that funny, to the real humor of D&D--the whimsical stuff that we all love. Modrons are the poster...whatevers for that! I think it's a much better way to go with it. I've never been much for goofy stuff in my games. I prefer my funny a bit more sly and rooted in story. And there's a lot of genuinely fun and lighthearted stuff in D&D to celebrate without introducing the Lite Beer Elemental.
I guess you could say I'm more of a Firefly guy and less a Mel Brooks guy.
All the love in the world for taking the April issue in an awesome direction and making it one of those great "dude! look at that!" issues that I wait for. Thanks for making my first subscription issue a keeper and not a groaner!
I am guessing you dont run any of the lil folk fey like leprachauns, brownies, nixies, pixies and whatnot in your game. These areas in my game are very jovial, with high spirits and childish fun unless it turns mean then it is something much darker, not that I think there is any use for a nacho cheese ooze, but am working on it as I have a list of fey foods that appear normal but have strange effects on non fey which is why there is the caviat in all mythologies I have ever read that you do not drink or eat anything while in the lands of Faerie. I love Firefly, but can't see the lil folk ever adopting that attitude, but then not that of Mel Brooks much either. Allways fun to put pc's through a different culture and perspective.
Modrons; kinda stuffy to me, pure law and order, all clockwork and stuff; I can't see them having much tolerance for humans and as most of my party is very chaotic, they wont go anywhere near em so it is all interesting, but like most stuff I have read in the last year, fairly useless in my campaign.
I did like the issue on Dagon and am using some of that; but, I had to really do a lot of work here as there are probably intentionally many holes.
I must say; my favorite section in either magazine is the letter from the editor and the letters from other players. The rule clafification sections are the most useful though.
I am guessing you dont run any of the lil folk fey like leprachauns, brownies, nixies, pixies and whatnot in your game.
Quite the opposite! I love all those little guys. And copper dragons are my favorites! One of the characters my PCs most loved was a phasm explorer masquerading as a flying cat. I love the things in D&D that are naturally silly and fun and am glad it's those things that Dragon is now celebrating.
I don't need joke articles to have fun. A shocker lizard in camp while everyone's asleep is good enough for me!
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I was kinda hoing for something along the lines of last year's "Ecology of the Adventurer." Now THAT was hilarious! ("Some days it seems a kobold can't place a piece of quartz on a stool without some adventurer slaughtering the kobold, stealing the quartz, and setting fire to the stool.")
I think the modron on the cover might make a decent end table/conversation starter, but as a species, they don't seem good for much else...
well, I have to agree with Grimcleaver. Valegrim & Courtney!, I respect your opinions... But I've been waiting 5 years to get a proper 3.x update about the modrons, now I have basis for all the other modrons in a campaign not far off.
I think this put in the perfect amount of whimsy, which makes me happy. It also kept a great deal of content very useful, which makes for a better magazine on the whole.
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I think this put in the perfect amount of whimsy, which makes me happy. It also kept a great deal of content very useful, which makes for a better magazine on the whole.
Totally. Modrons have always been favorites of mine, though never more so than in--Planescape: Torment.
The Modron Dungeon Construct--and Nordom! Who could ask for more...I mean really.
hehe ok Grim; now I am just confused, but that is ok, is a natural state for us blondes.
hehe ok Grim; now I am just confused, but that is ok, is a natural state for us blondes.
But... I hate to break this to you... You're red. :P
Anyhoo, Grimcleaver, I have to agree about Torment. It was a marvelous game, and left me wanting more! What's better, is that in the recent Dragon article on Malconthet (sp?) they cannonized Fall from Grace, and by extension the rest of the Torment crew!
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