Accessory - Dragon Magazine #194, MAGAZINES, Dragon Magazine
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Issue
#194
Vol. XVIII, No.
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June 1993
SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS
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Nothing gets your attention like a dragon
Our annual tribute to our namesake-but with three new twists.
Publisher
James M. Ward
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Dragon Dogfights!
Anne Brown
Battle it out with these aerial AD&D® rules for dragon miniatures.
Editor
Roger E. Moore
The Dragon Project: Dexter & Cornelius
Loyd Blankenship
A (not very) ferocious dragon and a (not very) heroic ally for the
GURPS FANTASY* game.
Associate editor
Dale A. Donovan
Fiction editor
Barbara G. Young
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The Dragon Project: D.R.A.G.O.N-bot ver. 3.1
Ed Stark
Hell on wheels . . . not! A Troubleshooters nightmare for the
PARANOIA* game.
Editorial assistant
Wolfgang H. Baur
FEATURES
Art director
Larry W. Smith
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The Known World Grimoire
Bruce A. Heard
Why did my flying castle crash? The Day of Dread and other D&D®
game queries answered.
Production staff
Gaye OKeefe Tim Coumbe
Subscriptions
Janet L. Winters
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Breaking Them In
Neil McGarry
Turn your groups novice gamers into old hands with these easy
suggestions.
U.S. advertising
Cindy Rick
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Get Ready, Get Set, Go!
Tom McLaughlin
Hit the gaming heights at the 1993 GEN CON® Game Fair!
U.K. correspondent
and U.K. advertising
Wendy Mottaz
The Official Ballot for the 1991 & 1992 ORIGINS* Awards
Two years in onevote now for the best games in existence!
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Gamma Terra Revisited Kim Eastland
New GAMMA WORLD® game mutations thatll frighten every
Pure Strain Human.
Campaign Journal: Slave Hunters and Silt Sailors
L. Richard Baker III
The DARK SUN® vvorlds darkest array of character kits.
The Game Wizards #1 Lester Smith
In outer space, all youll do is scream: meet TSRs
BUGHUNTERS game.
Bazaar of the Bizarre Spike Y. Jones
Whats a Tensers tantalus, and why is it following me around?
The Game Wizards #2 Bruce Nesmith
Start the next generation of gamersgive them the DRAGON
STRIKE game.
With a Bond of Magic Gregory W. Detwiler
Lightning and fire, ice and ash, pain and fear, all built right
into your sword blade.
Novel Ideas Will Larson
Are two DRAGONLANCE® saga writers better than one? Our
interviewer finds out.
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COVER
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REVIEWS
Role-playing Reviews Rick Swan
Megatons & mass extinction: science-fiction board games
that put the pow in power.
The Role of
Computers
Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser
Beneath the Planet of the Hostile Amazons, and other role-
playing challenges.
Through the Looking Glass Robert Bigelow
A dwarf without a flamethrower is like a day without
sunshine.
Nothing is so terrible that a huge
red dragon cant make it just a hell of
a lot worse. Eric Gooch catches a
crimson wyrm reveling in dark tri-
umph in this months striking cover
painting.
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DEPARTMENTS
4 Letters
53 Sage Advice
6 Editorial
102 Dragonmirth
22 Convention Calendar
104 Twilight Empire
31 TSR Previews
108 Gamers Guide
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