Dragon Magazine
A Walk Through the Planes: Court of Stars
Thought this column had been written into the dead book? Well you aren’t so lucky as all that—we’re back, and though A Walk Through the Planes won’t ever be quite as regular as it…
A Walk Through the Planes: Lords of Chaos
Remember way back in March when I covered Mual-Tar, a lightning primordial with a striking resemblance to tapeworms? Probably not, as Fourth Edition’s content, particularly concerning the primordials, is almost fascinatingly forgettable. Nevertheless, I…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 150: 2012 Magazine Wrap-up
During that awkward two year-period between the announcement of D&D‘s Fifth Edition and said edition’s actual release, both Dragon and Dungeon magazines continued puttering along. Christopher Perkins was in charge (of both? Of just…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 149: Heroes of the Elemental Chaos
We’re finally here at the last planar book for Fourth Edition D&D. Sadly, this will not be the last actual article covering this edition in our series—far from it, in fact—but sometimes you’re thankful…
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…
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