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SPECIAL ATTRACTION
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Creature Catalog II
Eighteen more new monsters for AD&D
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game adventures
OTHER FEATURES
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Official changes for rangers E. Gary Gygax
The long-awaited tracking rules, and more
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An army travels on its stomach Katharine Kerr
Even fantasy armies must live by the laws of the land
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Same dice, different odds David G. Weeks
Divided rolls produce more unpredictable results
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Reptiliad Attack wins big Dan Sample & Kim Eastland
Color photos of the Masters champ from the Miniature Open
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The ecology of the chimera Ed Greenwood
The three-headed terror and its even more horrible relative
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Playing in the modern era Game review by Arlen P. Walker
The many virtues and few faults of the MS&PE system
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My Honor Is My Life Tracy Hickman
Background for DRAGONLANCE campaigns: The Knights of Solamnia
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Fortunes of a Fool Nicholas Yermakov
Wherein a man and his frog are not soon enough parted
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The Gun That Shot Too Straight Ralph Roberts
Sooner or later, this story will hit the spot
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World Gamers Guide
Our first listing of, by, and for overseas gamers
Publisher
Mike Cook
Editor-in-Chief
Kim Mohan
Editorial staff
Patrick Lucien Price
Roger Moore
Graphics and production
Roger Raupp
Subscriptions
Pat Campbell
Advertising
Lee Hein
Contributing editors
Ed Greenwood
Ken Rolston
Katharine Kerr
This issues contributing artists
Clyde Caldwell
Bob Maurus
Roger Raupp
Dennis Kauth
Marsha Kauth
Ernest Yates
Marvel Bullpen
Jayne Hoffmann
Peter Berryman
Dave Trampier
Denton Elliott
Robert Albanese
Joseph Pillsbury
Larry Elmore
DEPARTMENTS
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Letters
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Convention calendar
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Wormy
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The forum
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Coming Attractions
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Dragonmirth
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The Role of Books
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The ARES Section
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Snarfquest
COVER
The first Clyde Caldwell painting weve published in more than a year is this
striking portrait of a female ranger. The model was Jeanne Stanley of Winston-
Salem, N.C., who met Clyde when both of them were attending the 1984 GEN
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Game Convention.
Drop a name and make a point
I got a memorable phone call from Greg Stafford the other day. Memorable because we
only cross paths every couple of years or so, and because its a special pleasure to pass some
time with Chaosiums counterpart to Gary Gygax. We got caught up a little bit on this and
that, and then Greg sort of tentatively changed direction.
Are you looking for . . . anything on Runequest? he asked.
Well, shore, I shot back. Especially if youre offering to write it. Wed always be glad
to see stuff from you guys out there, I said, thinking back to Steve Perrins article for the
SUPER WORLD game not too long ago.
Greg said hed think about doing that, but apparently he wasnt just asking for himself.
Some of the kids out here, he added, say that they havent sent anything to you because
they didnt think youd use it.
I guess I can understand how they get that impression, I said. We dont devote a lot of
space consistently to many popular games, including the ones Chaosium has produced. We
do like to keep our hand in by using an occasional piece of (what we think is) top-quality
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EBRUARY
1985
Off center
We always start out intending to position each
By putting our special feature in the center, we
issue’s special feature symmetrically around the
intend to make it possible for the feature to be
center of the magazine, and intending to have it
removed and used separately. Based on what
Editor:
I would like to complain about the practice of
placing the modules printed in DRAGON in the
magazine in such a manner as to make it impos-
sible to remove them without damaging other
portions of the magazine. Recently this was done
with Aesirhamar (#90) and The Sword of
Justice (#92). I would like to know why you
place modules in the magazine this way.
Robert W. Clark
Gettysburg, Pa.
occupy a number of pages evenly divisible by
you’ve told us, we know that for every reader
four so that those who want to can remove the
who does remove every module, there’s at least
module, game, or whatever and leave the rest of
one other who doesn’t want to dismember the
the magazine intact and stapled together. Nine
magazine and leaves the module stapled inside.
times out of ten, that’s the way it has worked ever
Although we regret having to frustrate the taker-
since we started our middle-of-the-magazine
outers among you, we think that’s preferable to
features in issue #37. But sometimes they just
leaving out a vital part of a module, or fluffing it
won’t fit nicely into four, or eight, or twelve, or
out and taking up space that could be better used
sixteen pages. If the text and graphics can’t be
by something else. If we did either of those two
stretched or trimmed to hit one of those numbers,
things instead, all of you would suffer the conse-
you get an off-center module.
quences. — KM
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