As you can see from the cover, the theme this month is Oriental Adventures (Kara-Tur) and as such most of the content outside the regular features and a couple of articles on other game systems (such as Marvel Heroes and Top Secret) is dedicated to that setting and what goes on within it.

An exception to the rule is the fiction feature which contains Love and Ale by Nick O’Donohoe, a short story that had already come out in the Tales series of Dragonlance short-story anthologies, so it isn’t exactly original material, but it serves as a good (and spicy) advertisement for the Tales books.

In terms of content for Oriental Adventures you get an article on Japanese names for characters, on Lotuses, the history of a Japanese castle, a Geisha (spelled Geisya) NPC class as well as Genin class, and a fold-up project to create a 3D “Oriental” castle.