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Pluddon
Seeker
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 Posted - 23 Sep 2013 : 23:35:33
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I have been browsing some of the dragon magazines and was wondering what you're favorite issues are and why.
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Renin
Learned Scribe
USA
290 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2013 : 04:19:03
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Sorry I can't name specific issue numbers, but I always loved 'Bard on the Run' articles.  |
Edited by - Renin on 24 Sep 2013 16:19:04 |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Jeremy Grenemyer
Great Reader
USA
2717 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2013 : 07:05:41
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I don't think I have a favorite issues of Dragon magazine.
If we open up the discussion to include Dungeon, well then I'd have a few issues to pick from for a favorite. |
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jerrod
Learned Scribe
157 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2013 : 08:06:28
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Drustan Dwnhaedan
Learned Scribe
USA
324 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2013 : 08:49:44
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I have so many I like that for one article or another, it would take to long to name all of them. But issue #122 has a special place in my heart (the article on African monsters has actually led me to actively research African mythology). I've also heard that issues #176 and #270 (at least, I think it was those issues) have articles on the drow that I would be very interested in, but those are two of the ones I don't have . |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2013 : 12:25:47
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| #228 - the one with Ed's Athalantar Campaign. |
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Barastir
Master of Realmslore
Brazil
1601 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2013 : 12:38:18
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I like #187 very much because of the animal tatics for 2e, and the deadlier dinosaurs article. But I also like one of the articles about the Green Elves of Faerûn, in a number that deals a lot with elves and half-elves. Oh, other magazines with those nice articles about prehistoric animals, from Cenozoic creatures to Pleistocene mammals... The down-to-Earth divinity article from Ed with the origins of the Realms pantheon... Some numbers with Elaine Cunningham fiction... Well, there is a lot of good stuff there!  |
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The Arcanamach
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 24 Sep 2013 : 18:53:56
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| Far too many to to narrow down to even a top 10 for me. My favorites almost always include articles written by Ed (from his early writings on the devils and the Nine Hells to his Realms specific materials to the Wizards Three articles...all of them were great). I also highly enjoyed the Voyage of the Princess Ark, any articles that took real world historic figures and applied game stats to them (like Charlemagne), and, of course, ANY article that featured new magic of any kind. And finally, the comics featuring the erstwhile heroes of the Knights of the Dinner Table (to this day, I have a good friend who calls me 'monkey boy' after reading a typically insulting comment directed at the Knight's DM). |
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Quale
Master of Realmslore
1757 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2013 : 20:41:48
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352 - cause of Bas-Lag
or 353 - has a lot of planar articles |
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Tamsar
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
141 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2013 : 23:07:20
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| 172 and 176 for me. Seeing the sights in Skullport and If you need Help ask the Drow articles. I miss dragon :( |
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Alystra Illianniis
Great Reader
USA
3750 Posts |
Posted - 25 Sep 2013 : 01:57:10
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| #260 for the Drake Steed article and the variant Dragons article (and all the other lovely dragon-related stuff), #267 for all the wonderful drow and Underdark stuff, and likewise #261 (the awesome shadow magic issue), #289 for its cool Oriental Adventures content, and #298- again for the great drow stuff. I'd also have to add #295 for the castle-building articles and #314 for all the elemental magic. I guess I have quite a few favorites, LOL! |
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George Krashos
Master of Realmslore
Australia
6680 Posts |
Posted - 25 Sep 2013 : 02:53:42
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Has to be #277 as it contains a rather brilliant Bazaar of the Bizarre article.
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xaeyruudh
Master of Realmslore
USA
1853 Posts |
Posted - 25 Sep 2013 : 04:43:43
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+1 to George. I literally drooled (that's gross, isn't it? Okay, almost literally) over the Soargar's Legacy article. It's still in the first couple of articles I would mention if someone were to ask me what I'd like to see more of in Dragon.
The Athalantar article Markus mentioned was awesome too. I still remember the excitement I felt when I first saw these two articles.
I also find it impossible to narrow it down to a single favorite issue, but if I were to pick a handful I'd go with the Dragon Annuals. There were 5, I think... at least I have five of them, and I wish very much that there were more. |
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KacyCrawford
Acolyte
USA
41 Posts |
Posted - 25 Sep 2013 : 11:24:51
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My favorite issue of Dragon magazine has always been #137. From Keith Parkinson’s fantastic cover through a hundred pages of nostalgic ads and varied articles to Snarf Quest at the end, I’ve enjoyed and continue to enjoy this issue from my collection.
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Shemmy
Senior Scribe
USA
492 Posts |
Posted - 25 Sep 2013 : 15:24:42
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#353 For selfish reasons. It was the issue that had the first article I wrote (Ecology of the Keepers) for Dragon. I had a piece in 351, but technically I wrote and submitted the Keeper piece first, it just was pushed back on the schedule.
#339 I thought was pretty awesome for its article on the Incantifers and other 'dead' Factions.
#354 had the greatest cover of all time with the April Fools 'What? Us Worry?' Modron. :D |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 25 Sep 2013 : 16:06:33
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I couldn't just name a particular favourite issue of DRAGON off-hand. I'd really need to sit down and work out which issue I thought brought the most to my games and/or creative insight for my campaigns.
That could take quite a while. |
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Diffan
Great Reader
USA
4460 Posts |
Posted - 25 Sep 2013 : 17:15:34
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| Hm, it's really too hard for me to narrow it down to just one singular dragon issue. I can name the top few that I know I've used on more than one occasion. Dragon 403 gave rules for 0-level 4E characters and the corresponding Dungeon magazine had a fun adventure for them to run though. I also really enjoy the recent Dragon 425 for their 4E Unearthed Arcane: Combat Options. Here they provide things like Fumble and Injury rules as well as alternate rules for things like Disarm, Sunder, Trip and unique ways to use Action Points. I also really enjoyed the Eye of Justice articles (can't remember which Dragon article they were in though). |
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Edited by - Diffan on 25 Sep 2013 17:20:34 |
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