Knowing that Dragon will be no more in a few months is only hardened by the fact that the next magazine's info isn't showing up. It should be shipping soon (if it hasn't already), but nothing about it appears on the Dragon page. No cover. No number. No nothing.
Is this issue shipping later in the month (allowing more time to get it up) or has it just not happened?
Is this issue shipping later in the month (allowing more time to get it up) or has it just not happened?It ships tomorrow, which is when it goes "live" on the website.
Cool. I was just wondering since it tends to be a little earlier than this.
I can't wait to get my hands on those new metallic dragons!
see, there it is. :) http://paizo.com/dragon/products/issues/2007/356
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see, there it is. :) http://paizo.com/dragon/products/issues/2007/356
Man, I love that cover. :)
I'd like to see Wizards try to match a cover like that in an online format.
Not!
Wow, pretty...
I can't wait for this issue. Ecology of the Linnorm and those 5 new dragons are definitely what I'm waiting on! :D
Good to see it going out with some top material. Keep it up for three more issues and maybe you'll salve the wound of losing the magazines somewhat (...maybe not. Keep it up anyway).
That cover should be a poster!
That cover should be a poster!
It's quite beautiful in-person! I've been starring at it because the Sabres game is too painful to watch. ;_;
What a great issue though! The ferrous dragons are awesome, despite a few accidental omissions. Core Beliefs: Hextor lives up to the rest of the series nicely with great info and flavorful relics and spells. I liked the bit on "A Blackguard's Role" that mentions the frequent nonlethal sparring between commanding blackguards and their soldiers, who are happy just to get a good duel in with a superior. Hextor is the Dark Side...
I have only read the first few paragraphs of Confession, but it seems pretty good so far. Very dirty, with some bold language. I like!
Ecology of the Linnorm is awesome! LOVE this one! The Sea Linnorm is great - I can't wait to stat up a fiendish version for late-game Savage Tide...
Speaking of the Savage Tide, the Savage Tidings article was great, with a bunch of items the PCs might acquire in their later travels. Some cool stuff here, like a demonhair shirt for barbarians that lets them enter a state of demonic fury, granting a profane bonus to Str among other things, and it stacks with rage! There's an animated figurine of a white knight that grows to large size and comes with a built-in holy greatsword, and seems like a great instant bodyguard.
I skipped the Forgotten realms article, which is on three realms dragons. Seems flavorful enough to me, though I'm not too into FR.
The Dragonshards article is about a site in Darguun called the Gathering Stone, where goblinoids descended from the Dhakaani people practice a dark druidic tradition, influenced by the Gatekeepers but drakly maligned by the work of the dealkyr, so that their rites are cruel and savage, filled with blood scrifice and other brutality. The Gathering Stone is a huge rock crusted with blood and surrounded by bodies, covered in esoteric graffiti that hides secrets of the past. There is a neat sidebar that has 20 results on a table for anyone studying the cryptic writing. One that I immediatly noticed is a list of "reagents, including rakshasa blood" that induces pregant goblins to give birth to a psionic blue!
Class Acts might be the weakest section this month, which is sad because I love Class Acts. That is not to say it was totally awful, either. Bard Guide is meh - might be useful, but I really doubt it. Occult Mutations gives us some new traits, and I liked this one quite a bit. The traits are Amphibious, Bleached Pupils, Corpse Flesh, Lidless Eyes, Midnight Pupils, Rune-Scarred, Toad Warts, and Unnatural Aura. Fun stuff here, and my players really like using the traits from Unearthed Arcana so these will be welcome. Aztec Mythos III is ok, it will certainly help to round out the Olmans once we get to that point in the Savage Tide. The last is Mercenary Companies, detailing two real-life affiliations as per the system introduced in the PHB II - the Scots-Irish Galloglas, and the German Landsknechts. Again, might be useful, only time will tell. They could certainly be adapted to some other organization by lifting any real-life references.
A big fan of this issue, all in all. The next one looks to be killer, with Demonomicon of Demogorgon as the main piece! The thumbnail pic is so epic, in a demonic , two-headed, lizard-legged King Kong way.
This issue and the next one (judging from the preview) should be awesome. I like what they have in store for the last one.
Unless 358 sucks in some way, I think that mag will go out with a bang!
What other articles are in the next issue?(357)Also, can you give us some info on each ferrous dragon?(for example, breath weapon)
Next issue also has "Defiled Creatures" which is about nature-themed beasts that have been corrupted and twisted (by evil I presume). "Fur and Feather" covers animal companions with new "details, allies, and equipment for characters w/animal companions or familiars." Plus there is Ecology of the Titan and the regular Class Acts, Sage, comics, etc.
More dragon info? In order of most powerful to least, it goes iron, chromium, cobalt, tungsten, and nickel. Ferrous dragons are primarily lawful, like how metallics are good and chromatics are evil. The only good one is tungsten, and irons are neutral. The others are all lawful evil.
Chromium Dragon - two breath weapons here, one is a line of solid ice (cold damage) and the other is a cone of freezing crystals that does Dex damage (1 per age category, Fort save).
Cobalt Dragon - line of pulsing magnetic energy, dealing force damage as well as bull rushing everyone in the area with a check equal to damage dealt. Very fun.
Iron Dragon - two breath weapons, a cone of superheated sparks (half fire and electricity) and a cone of sleep gas.
Nickel Dragon - a cone of acidic gas. They also have the ability to make people itchy or cause them to break out in painful rashes!
Tungsten Dragon - a cone of blasting sand, dealing half bludgenoing damage and half fire.
Nickel Dragon - a cone of acidic gas. They also have the ability to make people itchy or cause them to break out in painful rashes!
:)
in 2E, one of their spell-like abilities was Irritation. that spell hasn't appeared in 3E yet, and we really wanted to keep the effect, so we just converted it ourselves. :)