Accessory - Dragon Magazine #144, MAGAZINES, Dragon Magazine
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Issue #144
Vol. XIII, No. 11
April 1989
Special Attraction
Publisher
Mike Cook
11
Everything Youve Ever Wanted To Know About Role-Playing
(Everything that wasnt in the rules, that is.)
Editor
Roger E. Moore
12
A Field Guide to Game-Convention Ornithology Skip Williams
See any Bull-headed Slashers in your gaming group last evening?
Associate editor
Fiction editor
20
Cheating Made Easy Jefferson P. Swycaffer
Creative ways to roll dice, measure movements, and enrage your friends
Robin Jenkins
Barbara G. Young
Editorial assistant
Kimberly J. Walter
24
Cheating Made Even Easier Spike Y. Jones
If the last article didnt stop you, then youre ready for the big time!
Art director
Lori Svikel
28
Claydonia Conquers the World! Paul C. Easton
Clay-O-Rama campaigns; or,
My Claydonian is stuck to the ceiling!
Production staff
Paul Hanchette
Betty Elmore
Kim Janke Angelika Lokotz
32
Still More Outrages from the Mages John M. Maxstadt
Loads of great new spells that only a killer DM could possibly
love.
Other Features
Subscriptions
Janet L. Winters
U.S. Advertising
Sheila Gailloreto
38
Role-playing Reviews Jim Bambra
In the land of cartoon characters, death is a four-letter word.
U.K. correspondent
Lyn Hutchin
46
When Gods Walk the Earth Paul Jaquays
In Chaosiums RUNEQUEST® game, Divine Intervention is not divine at
all.
U.K. advertising
Dawn Carter Kris Starr
58
The Game Wizards James M. Ward
Bad puns, good games, and free-lance work at TSR, Inc.
60
The Role of Computers Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser
Try a fantasy golf course to end all golf courses.
70
Through the Looking Glass Robert Bigelow
How much damage can a BattleMechs lasers do? Find out in this column.
84
Red Guns William Wilson Goodson, Jr.
Which is deadlier: your Marvel Universe® hero or a Soviet Hind
helicopter?
Departments
3 Letters
6 Sage Advice
8 Forum
56 TSR Previews 96 Dragonmirth
80 Gamers Guide
100 Bludgeons & Flagons
88 Convention Calendar 102 SnarfQuest
COVER
If
Sports Illustrated
can have a swimsuit issue, so can we. Daniel Horne provides the
cover artwork for this month: a ravishing Valkyrie on her magnificent Pegasus. Or thats
what Lori told me it was. I havent seen the artwork yet, really, but Lori said it was
great. Christie Brinkley, eat your heart out.
2 APRIL 1989
Legend
What did you think of this issue? Do you have
a question about an article or have an idea for a
new feature youd like to see? In the United
States and Canada, write to: Letters, DRAGON®
Magazine, PO. Box 111, Lake Geneva WI 53147,
U.S.A. In Europe, write to: Letters, DRAGON
Magazine, TSR Ltd.,
120
Church End, Cherry
Hinton, Cambridge
Our sage refused to answer this question and
handed the letter back to the editors. We think
you will get two midgets instead of two normal
characters, since each half of a worm grows
back to form a shorter worm. You’ll have to
decide which half of the worm got the brains.
Better still, perhaps you should take up chess.
The mountain pass was called the
Demon Tongue, which implied there
might be a demon and treasure
there, so the party headed for it
right away. The characters were
hungry for combat and cash lots
of each. I was the DM. We were
gaming on the pool table in the
medical company rec room in West
Germany, a decade ago last fall.
Not many of the details of that
adventure are left with me now, but
I remember what happened when
the adventurers got to the Demon
Tongue. The paladin was the point
man, mounted up and armored like
a tank (he had volunteered for no,
demanded the position). Some dis-
tance behind, the wizard was check-
ing the landscape with his
CB1
3LD, United Kingdom.
Odds & ends II
Dear Dragon:
I would like to submit this article on dwarf
mud wrestling. I am a 40-year-old homemaker
and mother of two.
The following letters were actually received
by the editors of DRAGON Magazine and, except
for minor editing, appear as they were written.
We almost accepted this article, which sug-
gests that your editors should take up chess,
too.
amulet
of
hunting for enemy thoughts.
Everyone else was gathered near
the wizard, weapons ready. They
were on a narrow road in the pass
itself, with a slope up to the left and
a sheer drop to the right, when the
wizard got a reading.
I rolled the dice and checked the
books. The party had found the
demon, but the
Dear Dragon:
Im a new subscriber, and I love your maga-
zine. This is my first letter, so I have high hopes
youll answer me. This isnt your everyday
letter. It deals with sexuality among the differ-
ent races in the AD&D game. I hope you can
answer the questions I was brave enough to ask.
[Remainder of
letter deleted
by editor.]
jDear Edcitor.
I rote to yo avoubt 3 moith s ago and yout
didn;t asndteer. Mye charcther agot won of its
folowers fptregndnt. what can I doo abvout
thiso . . My dungon gasyer saisd too cal dr Ruth
about ist on Her nexst showe. I dont thind I
shoukd beleive him. He sayis he ist seroiws.
Whot do yoo thindk. I alsot whant to knowed
syhty there is nakerd babies on Led Zep;
asblums.(is Houses of the Holydl ). ;l + -0 Whyu
do ythinmsk.
had
malfunctioned. I scribbled a note
and passed it to the wizards player.
He read it and gave me an incredu-
lous look.
Hey, guys, said the wizard, reign-
ing in his horse. That demon is
here, but that demon is the Demo-
gorgon. We are
amulet of ESP
Um
. . .
next!
Dear Dragon:
Being a high priest in good standing of Zeus, I
am slightly perturbed at having been called
upon or, as the case often is, yelled at to heal
wounded fools who havent sense enough to run
from such dangers as red dragons or Asmodeus
himself, or to chase away skeletons, zombies,
and other such undead merely because the
remaining members of the party have no wish
to fight the beasts themselves.
If you please, explain to your readers that we
clerics have studied to accomplish better things
than to turn the undead and to heal idiots.
You’re still not getting an answer.
Dear Dragon:
Is there such a thing as an elf sapper?
doomed.”
Everyone stared at the wizards
player, then at me. Everyone had
read
Yes, but you cannot get much sap from them.
The
entire party came to a halt. Then the
characters began to guide their
horses back the way they had come,
looking around with nervous grins.
All but the paladin, that is. He
stopped where he was, stood up in
his stirrups, raised his sword, and
shouted, COME OUT AND FIGHT,
YOU MISERABLE @#$ + §&%*!!! at
the top of his lungs. Seconds later, a
giant ball of darkness appeared on
the road ahead.
Before anyone could react, one of
the characters was
the
Monster Manual.
was the best
of your recent issues. One thing I missed was an
illustration by Gustave Dore. His pictures have a
real feeling for medieval times. Who is he? Is he
a contemporary artist? Is he releasing any
posters or the like?
It
Certainly. We can’t have that going on.
Dear Dragon:
A couple of years ago, I was in some mall in
Penn. I saw a strange-looking man with dark
sunglasses and a cane. It may have been my
imagination but he met this lady. They started
to talk about overthrowing TSR.
Gustave Dore, the famed French painter and
illustrator, died in 1883. He is not currently
releasing any posters. His pictures had a real
feeling for medieval times because he lived a lot
closer to them than we do.
off
his horse and hurled into the can-
yon beside the road. He took 20 dice
of damage and became a memory.
Every one of his companions bolted
except for the paladin, who
roared, SHOW YOURSELF,
DEMON!!! (The rest of the players
screamed that they were riding
telekinesized
It was your imagination
Dear Dragon:
My character was recently
polymorphed
into
a worm. Another character cut my worm/
character in half. If both halves were each
allowed to grow into two whole worms, then
were
polymorphed
back to my characters
regular form, would I have two identical charac-
ters? And since both parts are equal, I will not
have to worry about them trying to kill each
other, such as it would be with a clone, right?
Dear Dragon:
Hello, I would like to know what the cow
skulls are for.
Keeping cow’s brains warm.
Continued on page 95
Continued on page 94
DRAGON 3
ESP,
Dear Dragon:
I particularly liked [issue # 129].
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