Accessory - Dragon Magazine #033, MAGAZINES, Dragon Magazine
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January, 1980
D&D players looking for DM’s, here it is:
The Second Annual Map-
ping the Dungeons Dungeon Masters List!
There are over 1,000
listings, so get out there and make connections!
Another large section of the magazine this month is devoted to another
installment of the adventures of
Niall of the Far Travels
by
Gardner
Those of you who enjoy these
excellent short stories by Gar will be happy to know we have a couple
more in hand to be run in future issues. If Niall doesn’t appeal to your
taste, well, we
are
expanding the size of the magazine . . . .
and illustrated by
Jeffrey Lanners.
appy New Year from The Dragon and TSR Periodicals!
And after my latest session with the ol’ crystal ball, I
predict big happenings for
The
Dragon
and you, our
readers, in the year to come. In the past year,
The
Dragon
has doubled in size, and after you read
Dragon
Rumbles
on the following page, you’ll see we’re continuing to expand
the size of the magazine. Even bigger plans are in the works for the
future—more on those at a later date. Let’s take a look at this month’s
issue.
Fantasysmith
discussing miniature figure painting techniques, with a special look at
the methods used by “Uncle” Duke Seifried. And those of you into
miniatures will be happy to know that
From the Fantasy Forge,
our old photographic look at new figures, will be returning in the near
future.
Business is booming at TSR Hobbies, but the company’s gain is the
magazine’s loss. President
is becoming so caught up in
the workings of a rapidly expanding company that this month’s
Gary Gygax
On the cover this month we have a reproduction of a painting by
John
Sor-
This painting won the Best of Show and
“Best Color Fantasy” awards at the Northwest Annual Science Fiction
Festival in Seattle last year. More of John’s excellent work appears in
our recently released
“Days of the Dragon”
1980 fantasy art calendar.
will be his last for a while. Gary bows out this month
with an explanation/rationalization of the Advanced Dungeons and
Dragons® magic system.
A couple of months ago we received a second installment of
F. C.
Contents
and I
reported that “the tale had grown in the telling.” It’s still growing! This
month we have part three of what is now a five-part article. While we
normally do not devote so much space to the design of an individual
game, because of the fact that so much of the original game of LAHK-
MAR was so tightly tied to the development of the mythos of the world
of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, we offer Prof. MacKnight’s article as a
look inside the heads of Fritz Leiber and Harry Fischer, as well as a
design forum.
article on the origins of the game of
Lankhmar,
FEATURES
Fantasysmith’s Notebook—
Paradise for Painterly People
.........
4
The Eyes of Mavis Deval—
Gradner F. Fox
.....................
6
Sorcerer’s Scroll—
Gary Gygax
.............................
.10
Leomund’s Tiny Hut—
Lenard Lakofka
...................... .16
MAPPING THE DUNGEONS II—
1980 International DM List
.... .23
Bazaar of the Bizarre—
Magical Oils
..........................
.47
Sage Advice—
Questions & Answers on D&D
.................
.48
The Electric Eye—
Mark Herro
..............................
.50
Dragon’s Bestiary—
Frosts
..................................
.56
Leomunds Tiny Hut, Len Lakofka ex-
amines some of the spells in AD&D, discusses possible usage/interpre-
tation problems, and offers some solutions. More D&D questions and
answers appear in
Sage Advice
by
Jean Wells.
who
proposes a new characteristic for non-player characters: Caution. And
Lawrence Huss
Holly Lovins,
VARIANTS
A CAU for NPC’s—
H.R.Lovins
.............................. 9
Clerics & Swords—
Lawrence Huss
....................
.20
gives us a “documented” reason for the “no
swords” rule for clerics.
REVIEWS
Wizard—
Brad McMillan
...................................
.53
Wizard’s Quest—
Bill Fawcett
................................
.53
The Apprentice—
E. Gary Gygax
............................
.53
Gamelog —
E. Gary Gygax
.................................
.53
Invasion of the Air Eaters—
Tony Watson
..................... .54
Only the gods
know when we’ll have the next segment, but none of you can be more
anxious for it than I. . . . Speaking of columns, we have a new one this
month, and we’ll have another new one next month. This month we
inaugurate
Finieous Fingers!
The Electric Eye
by one of our newest contributors,
Mark
Mark’s column will be a regular look at the use of modern
technology with games and gaming, with a special emphasis on the use
of home computers. We hope the column will eventually expand to
encompass reviews of electronic games as well. This month Mark
begins with an introduction to the world of home computers, and he’s
taken special care to gear it towards the layman (like me). Now we’ll all
know what ROM and CPU mean, and while we may not all have home
computers, at least we can keep up with their applications to gaming.
HUMOR
Inert Weapons—
No. 2
....................................
.45
Wormy—
Tramp
........................................
..58
Finieous Fingers—
J.D.
....................................
.60
BACKGROUND
Lankhmar—
F.C. McKnight
................................ .12
NEWS/VIEWS
Dragon Rumbles
.......................................... 2
Out on a Limb
............................................ 3
Convention Schedule ....................................
..20
Next month, we’ll kick
off
the
Dastardly Deeds and Devious De-
(DD&DD) column we’ve been promising. DM’s will be able to
find loads of nasty items, just perfect for those “special” rooms.
February’s issue is in the works and
Divine Right
will have its day.
cover (the same artist who did the Divine Right
box cover art), designers’ notes on the game, variants, and strategies
for play. Also in February’s issue will be another AD&D module—the
one used for the
Elrohir
If your mailing label says TD 33
this is your last issue . . . resubscribe
2nd Official Invitational AD&D Masters Tourn-
ament!
See you then.
—Jake
Fox
Elsewhere in the magazine this month, you’ll find the
Barnes: Dragons Lair.
cerers Scroll
MacKnights
In this month’s edition of
Also this month we have a D&D variant by
As always, we have our other regular columns and features, including
(fanfare of trumpets) the return of
Herro.
vices
We’ll have an
Vol. IV, No. 7
Vol. IV, No. 7
January, 1980
The Premier Magazine of Games and Gaming
Publisher
E. Gary Gygax
Editor
T. J. Kask
Assistant Editor
Jake Jaquet
Editorial Staff
Kim Mohan
John Baillie
Art Staff
Dave Sutherland
Erol Otus
Greg Fleming
Darlene Pekul
Circulation & Sales
Corey Koebernick
This issue marks a couple of significant
changes in THE DRAGON. First, it is the last
issue in which I will be the individual answer-
ing the letters in OUT ON A LIMB. We are
reorganizing within our staff, and Jake has
become the
de facto
editor, in regard to what
each of us does around here. Sometime
soon the masthead will reflect that fact.
As we get bigger and bigger, and take on
more projects outside the actual magazine,
such as distributing WHITE DWARF and
THE WARGAMER, and merchandising our
name and such, I am left with less and less
time to spend on the actual planning and
execution of each issue. I feel that Jake and
Kim have done an excellent job. Other than
each issue’s budget meeting, my direct in-
fluence has been felt less and less. While
some unkind souls have suggested that this
is what accounts for the improvement in
recent issues, I prefer to attribute it to the in-
fusion of more than one person’s input and
ideas. Also, I feel that I have assembled one
hell of a staff.
To use a comparison from TV (gasp),
I used to be Lou Grant, with some of
Charley’s duties, as well as many of Rossi’s,
Billie’s and Animal’s. Now I’m mostly
Charley, with a little of Lou. I won’t tell who
Animal is.
. .
Another departure from the past is due,
too. I am not going to use this column to
complain about lack of letters! In fact, I am
going to talk about letters, but on a positive
note.
Letters to the editor have become a
source of pleasure and entertainment
around here. Aside from the fact that we no
longer look for letter bombs, we actually
get a few positive ones instead. It is hearten-
ing to know that what we do is worth the
time for our readers to taken pens in hand,
or apply fingertips to keyboard, and tell us
about it.
Obviously, it is still a tiny percentage who
do take the trouble, but that portion is grow-
ing, and we hope it continues to do so.
Many days, as we are sitting around
eating lunch in the office, we have Jake
reading the ‘letter of the day’ to us. Most of
the time, he finds the most outrageous or
ridiculous, and we all enjoy it for what it is.
Other times, tho, we read a sincere one, and
discuss it over peanut butter and jelly sand-
wiches washed down with Pepsi (the drink
of choice at TD).
It is gratifying to think that what we do
matters to so many people, and that we
seem to be doing it better as time progresses.
I just hope that you keep writing to us,
both to let us know what we did right, as well
as to let us know what else we could do.
More good news for our readers: TD is
going to increase its base size. We were al-
ready faced with having to raise the cover
price to keep up with inflation. We found
that with our print run at the size it is, we can
raise the base size by another 8 pages at no
significant increase in our costs. Faced with
having to raise the cover price by at least
35¢ to account for inflation and increased
expenses, we were resigned to changing the
price to $2.50, holding off as long as pos-
sible, to enable inflation to eat up some more
of it. Before the cries of “Rip-off,” “greedy
capitalist” and “money-grubber” reach
a crescendo, let me hasten to point out that
we, the producers, see less than a third of
that increase, and we need all of that to keep
pace with inflation and rising printing and
paper costs. The remainder goes to the re-
tailers and middlemen, who also have to eat.
We figured that if we could throw in a few
more pages, it would soften the blow some-
what. The price of TD, at $2.50 for the past
two issues because of the enclosures, will be-
come permanent.
In the future, issues containing games or
modules will have an additional special
charge levied on the cover price. Sub prices
will remain $24.00 per year, but from now
on, subs will consist of the standard twelve
months; we are dropping the bonus-issue
offer. Subs will continue to be a better deal
than ever. Considering that in a given pub-
lishing year we will do two games/modules
(roughly) with an additional 50¢ on the
price, we are offering at least $37 worth of
magazines for $24, a saving of more than
one-third!
We are offering a special deal for you to
take advantage of the old rate elsewhere in
this issue, but you will have to act fast.
THE DRAGON is published monthly by
TSR Periodicals, a division of TSR Hobbies,
Inc., P.O. Box 110, Lake Geneva, Wiscon-
sin 53147. Phone: 414-248-8044
THE DRAGON is available at better hobby
shops and bookstores, or by subscription.
Subscription rate within the U.S. and Can-
ada is $24.00 for 13 issues. Subscription
outside the U.S. and Canada are $28.00 for
6 issues, and are air-mailed. Single copy
price, including back issues, is $2.75 per
copy. All payments must be made in U.S.
currency or by international money order.
Subscription expiration is coded onto the
mailing label. The number to the right of the
name, prefixed by “TD”
is
the number of
the last issue of the subscription. Changes of
address must be filed 30 days prior to the
mailing date of the magazine to be sent to
the new address.
All material published in THE DRAGON
becomes the exclusive property of the pub-
lisher unless special arrangements to the
contrary are made.
While THE DRAGON welcomes unsolicited
material, such cannot be returned unless
accompanied by a stamped return envel-
ope, and no responsibility for such material
can be assumed by the publisher in any
event. All rights on the contents of this pub-
lication are reserved, and nothing may be
reprinted in whole or in part without written
permission of the publisher. Copyright
1980 by TSR Hobbies, Inc.
Second class postage paid at Lake Geneva
Wisconsin 53147
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January, 1980
New freshmen
tioned in TD 27, p. 48) as an article in THE
DRAGON.
winners of the SC Awards, and Gary was one of
them, tho the likeness was less than perfect
To remedy that, we present the
following:
Ed Greenwood—Canada
To the Editor,
I am writing this letter to clear up some
problems that appear in my article in the August
1979 issue of “The Dragon” A rather dull part of
my article was edited out. While this made the
article more readable, it created a small problem
with my description of freshmen. In the article, the
first paragraph states “. . .most . . . of the return-
ing freshmen had heard of
D&D.
However, none
of the new freshmen knew how to play.” Before
my article was edited, it stated dryly that all of the
returning freshmen who had gone to Cranbrook
in the eighth grade were “day” students (not
those who flunked!). The “new freshmen” of the
article are the boarders, none of whom were at
Cranbrook in the eighth grade. Since the boarders
had a lot of free time together,
D&D
was the
perfect thing for them. So, there were only four or
five freshmen boarders who did not play
D&D.
There were more than four freshmen “day” stu-
dents who didn’t play
D&D.
Whenever the article
says
“new”
freshmen it means freshmen
boarders.
Another thing that was edited was the names
of the DMs. They did a superb job and deserve the
credit of being mentioned. They were: David
Albrecht, David Baxter, Chuck Chung, John
Dennis, Paul Dworkin, Paul Gamble, Todd
Golding, Tod Leavitt, Robert Nederlander, and
Marshal Eisenberg. The last thing about the article
is about our club. We would appreciate any assis-
tance or suggestions on club charter, constitution,
by-laws, etc. A copy of an existing club’s rules
would be greatly appreciated.
TSR Periodicals does not sell subs to WHITE
DWARF We merely distribute in N. Amer. to retail
outlets. To subscribe, you must go through pub-
lishers in England. Price is $14.00, address is:
WHITE DWARF, 1 Dalling Road, London, W6.
You could also bug your local store to carry it,
and thereby get us another customer.
Sorry, life subscriptions to TD are not
auailable.
Proofreading has been one of those areas that
we have glossed over in the past, but I think that
you have found a vast improvement in recent
issues. This is due to the fact that we have a larger
staff with more time available to devote to such
activities. In the past, when it became a choice
between proofreading and starting the next issue
to keep on schedule, you know which choice we
were forced to make.
Re DIVINE RIGHT, it is next month’s featured
game with a feature story on it, as well as the TSR
errata sheet, the designers’ errata, and the be-
ginning of a new semi-regular column on the
mythology and history of MINARIA —ED.
P.S. —DIVINE RIGHT was recently honored
by the Hobby Industry of America for its pack-
aging, winning a Silver Award.
Gary and his friend
It's up to you to figure out who is which, so to
speak. ED.
Heres Gary!
Dear Editor,
My friends and I have been playing D&D for
about a year now (hardly worthy of the title
“novice”), but if there’s one thing we’ve learned
about
D&D,
TSR, etc., it’s the name Gary Gygax.
We all have a copy of the
Monster Manual, Players
Handbook,
a few issues of
The Dragon,
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pounds of figurines, one or two supplements, and
almost all of the modules. (Pretty good for one
year, huh?)
Anyway, after buying all this material, we were
all more than a little bit curious about the man
himself. We were all set to go to a convention last
year, and we all had our hopes up, (about seeing
Mr. Gygax, I mean) but the gas shortage
grounded us. Well, the bottom line is, we were all
wondering if you could print a small picture of him
in one of those out-of-the-way page corners in
your next issue.
This may all seem very silly to you, but it’s
important to us.
Dan Bromberg—MI
White Dwarf
Dear Editor:
Recently news has reached this lonely barony
that TSR will soon be distributing WHITE DWARF
in North America. Is this true, and if so, can one
(namely me) subscribe through TSR? Also, are life
subscriptions to THE DRAGON available, and if
so how does one get such a wondrous beast?
Only persistent complaint about THE
DRAGON: Please, please, PLEASE get a type-
setter who can spell. Choosing a page at random
from the last issue (TD 27; rolling D100 and divid-
ing in half) we find, on page 32, “Timeles (sic)
Space.” A minor beef—but this is a recurrent
problem in recent issues, and it is extremely
irritating to a reader as it breaks up the flow of the
narrative.
I am most pleased with DIVINE RIGHT.
Congratulations are due both Glenn and Kenneth
Rahman and TSR for producing this simplistic, yet
challenging game. Please publish the rules re-
garding ‘The Werewolf and ‘Civil War’ (men-
Sam Vaughn—NJ
Actually, your request is not all that silly. Since
Gary has come from the relative obscurity of his
shoe repair shop in his basement to the forefront
of the gaming hobby, only convention-goers, and
those who saw him on Tom Snyder’s show in
November, have any idea of what he looks like. In
the November issue, we ran some pictures of the
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