Dragon Magazine
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 143: Shades of Darkness
By the release of “Shades of Darkness” by Robert J. Schwalb in May 2010 (Dragon #387), it was already clear that D&D‘s magazines were following suit with the rest of the brand in their…
A Walk Through the Planes – Codex of Betrayal
I knew that it would be a bumpy ride when we hit Fourth Edition, and not just because of the radically different cosmology. Wizards of the Coast had a newfound focus on planar material…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 131: Hestavar: The Bright City
Just because the overall conception of Fourth Edition’s cosmology is wonky and frustrating doesn’t mean that the actual locations within it can’t be excellent. Case in point: Hestavar, a paradisiacal city lying in the…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 129: Ze Planes!
Once Wizards of the Coast reclaimed Dragon magazine from Paizo, they no longer kept naming each issue, a change that I don’t think mattered in the slightest to anyone in the world except for…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 124: Mithrendain, Citadel of the Feywild
After last week’s surprisingly good read, I found myself wondering whether I’d been wrong about Fourth Edition’s lore all along. I mean, sure, piecing it together often feels like a scavenger hunt, but maybe…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 123: Beleth, the Witch’s Viscount
One of the most frustrating things about how Fourth Edition treats its lore is that it assumes familiarity with the D&D mythology while at the same time it never tells you what’s actually canon…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 121: The Last Vestiges of Third Edition
While Elder Evils would’ve been a strong, worthy way for Dungeons & Dragons‘ Third Edition to come to an end, that wasn’t what came to pass. During the weird period of time between the…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 120: Elder Evils
The final book for Third Edition D&D, or to be more accurate edition 3.5, was Robert J. Schwalb’s Elder Evils, a companion of sorts to Exemplars of Evil from a few months earlier. While…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 119: Infernal Aristocracy
Once Wizards of the Coast snatched its magazine rights back from Paizo, Dragon in particular was in a weird place. Dungeon could stay an Edition 3.5-oriented rag, because Fourth Edition didn’t actually exist yet…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 118: The Savage Tide
The last of Paizo’s original run of adventure paths for Dungeon Magazine arrived just as D&D‘s third edition was coming to a close. While there was still one remaining book and a handful of…
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