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Kno
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 Posted - 11 Aug 2011 : 14:07:28
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What is in your opinion the best issue of Dragon? One for every edition
And why?
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The Sage
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Wooly Rupert
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Posted - 11 Aug 2011 : 15:08:58
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My faves remain 163 and 159. 163 was the first issue I bought, in the long since closed and not-so-friendly comic/gaming store called Stargate. I bought 159 from the same store, a few months later, and loved it because of all the wondermous Spelljammer content.  |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 12 Aug 2011 : 01:42:31
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I don't have a partciular favourite.
Really, any issue containing lore from the "Realms Greats" like Ed, Steven, Eric, Elaine, or George, all rank pretty highly in my listing of favourite issues of DRAGON Magazine.
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Kno
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 12 Aug 2011 : 11:05:24
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
My faves remain 163 and 159. 163 was the first issue I bought, in the long since closed and not-so-friendly comic/gaming store called Stargate. I bought 159 from the same store, a few months later, and loved it because of all the wondermous Spelljammer content.
309: Githyanki incursion is even greater, the artwork |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 12 Aug 2011 : 11:49:52
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quote:
Originally posted by Kno
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
My faves remain 163 and 159. 163 was the first issue I bought, in the long since closed and not-so-friendly comic/gaming store called Stargate. I bought 159 from the same store, a few months later, and loved it because of all the wondermous Spelljammer content.
309: Githyanki incursion is even greater, the artwork
Only if you're a fan of githyanki. And I'm not.  |
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Quale
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 12 Aug 2011 : 20:47:58
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I don't remember the older ones, started buying at number 287.
1. 352 - cause of the Bas-Lag Campaign article and some cool FR undead monsters
Honorable mentions. I have about 15 at the game at all times, the rest are scattered.
2. 353 cause it's most usable, Malcanthet, FR outsiders, best class acts, Keepers, demiplanes, archomentals ...
3. 357 - Demogorgon article, Wells of Darkness, titans, arcane plants, companions
4. 338 - Boccob article, magic schools and staffs, spellweavers
5. 349 - Hordelands article, Dagon, psionic feats, Ogre Mage ecology
6. 337 - Zuggtmoy, illithid minions, Lords of Dust, face paints, spell grafts, Shadar-kai
7. 334 - Crimmor, monsters, alchemist and other items, krakens
8. 290 - Slavic campaign world, death knights of Oerth
9. 340 - small constructs, inevitables, Baphomet
10. 350 - magical workshops and pollution, Wee Jas article, clockwork horrors, totemist soulmelds
Also I keep 255 (life-shapes), 313, 309, 355, 327, 358, 288. There was a different top ten list in the last magazine.
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
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Posted - 13 Aug 2011 : 02:07:40
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Originally posted by Quale
1. 352 - cause of the Bas-Lag Campaign article and some cool FR undead monsters
Always a good idea to have this one on hand when tackling the "Bas-Lag" books for the first time. For the very-weird creatures and locales...
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Kno
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 13 Aug 2011 : 07:39:36
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| Dragon no. 228 is the most notable in the 2nd edition, if you want the Elminster campaign |
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Shemmy
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Posted - 14 Aug 2011 : 10:29:44
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Originally posted by Quale
2. 353 cause it's most usable, Malcanthet, FR outsiders, best class acts, Keepers, demiplanes, archomentals ...
You just made me a very happy fiend. :D |
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Thauramarth
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Posted - 14 Aug 2011 : 10:59:57
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| I do not really have a favourite issue of Dragon Magazine - I tend to think more in terms of favourite articles. But If I had to have a shot at it, I'd say #172 (Schend and Greenwood on Skullport, but also one of the most valued articles in the Princess Ark series) and the linked #176 (the drow of the Promenade). Also rather splendid: #75 and #76, with Big Ed's articles on the Nine Hells. |
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Brimstone
Great Reader
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Posted - 14 Aug 2011 : 12:24:43
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Originally posted by Kno
Dragon no. 228 is the most notable in the 2nd edition, if you want the Elminster campaign
One of my favorites, plus the first one I ever bought. |
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Quale
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 16 Aug 2011 : 07:40:47
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quote:
Originally posted by Shemmy
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Originally posted by Quale
2. 353 cause it's most usable, Malcanthet, FR outsiders, best class acts, Keepers, demiplanes, archomentals ...
You just made me a very happy fiend. :D
it would be the first place, if the articles were longer and the archomentals are not as interesting as other planar lords |
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