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RAGON
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SPECIAL ATTRACTION
41 Death of an Arch-Mage Michael D. Selinker
A murder-mystery module for the AD&D® game
Publisher
Mike Cook
OTHER FEATURES
Editor-in-Chief
Kim Mohan
8 Good stuff, for a spell John M. Maxstadt
Magic-focusing items: a new concept in treasure
14 Welcome to Malachi Becky Helfenstein
A game city designed with magic in mind
Editorial staff
Patrick Lucien Price
Roger Moore
Robin Jenkins
1 8 DUNGEON Adventures Roger E. Moore
Everything there is to say about our new publication
Editorial assistance
Eileen Lucas
22 No campaign ever fails Joel E. Roosa
How to recognize and correct an uncontrolled campaign
Art, graphics, production
Roger Raupp
Kim Lindau
Gloria Szopinski
27 Microscopic monsters Kent Colbath
Single-celled organisms take on monstrous proportions
35 The role of books Reviews by John C. Bunnell
Advertising
Mary Parkinson
66 Pull the pin and throw Kevin Marzahl
Grenades explode onto the TOP SECRET® game scene
Subscriptions
Pat Schulz
7 2 File Under B
Esther M. Friesner
Love, magic and a barbarian by the card catalog!
This issues contributing artists
Denis Beauvais
Dennis Kauth
THE ARES SECTION
Ted Goff
Valerie Valusek
78 Phoenix
Roger E. Moore
Bright and dark in the Marvel Universe
Richard Tomasic
Marvel Bullpen
Denton Elliott
Jeff Butler
Joseph Pillsbury
DC Comics staff
82 Maxima Jack Herman
Back from the future in the V&V game
Dave Trampier
Larry Elmore
84 Supergirl Greg Gorden
The Maid of Steel in the DC HEROES game
8 8 The Marvel®-Phile Jeff Grubb
An advanced look at a long shot
90 Quantum George MacDonald
A quantum leap in CHAMPIONS gaming
DEPARTMENTS
3 Letters
64 TSR Profiles
97 Snarfquest
4 World Gamers Guide
94 Gamers Guide
100 Dragonmirth
6 The forum
96 Convention calendar
102 Wormy
62 TSR Previews
COVER
High above the clouds, away from the interference of men and other landlubbers,
The Conflict rages. Our latest offering from Denis Beauvais depicts two deadly
dragons locked in a struggle that mirrors the battle between good and evil. Well let
you decide which dragon is the good one; all that matters to us is the artwork itself
and the artwork is great!
2 JULY 1986
Dust does the job
dwarf, no amount of facial hair is going to gain
him the same level of acceptance that a dwarf
would be able to attain. KM
Robin won,
Robin too
Wipe that puzzled frown off your face
and keep reading. I know that title doesnt
make any sense by itself, but as the
crystal-ball salesman said to his customer,
everything will become clear shortly.
Recently we evaluated a lot of intelli-
gent, energetic people for an opening on
our editorial staff, and Robin won
Robin Jenkins, that is. He was playing the
D&D® game before DRAGON® Maga-
zine existed, and now hes putting all that
experience to work as the newest member
of our team.
Essentially, Robin is picking up where
Roger Moore left off. Roger has moved
into his new role as editor of DUN-
GEON Adventures, about which a lot
more is said beginning on page 18. Robin
has taken custody of our eternally replen-
ishing pile of manuscript submissions, and
will put his gaming experience and edito-
rial training to use determining which
ones are fit to print. If he likes it, he shows
it to me, and if I like it, we show it to you.
The process is simple, but some of the
decisions are pretty tough, and Im glad to
have Robin here to help us make them.
Dear Dragon,
I have two questions about articles in issue
#109. First of all I wanted to know if you are able
to see a displacer beast with dust of appearance.
Second, about The role of books: Can I buy
some of these books through you?
Two kinds of art
Dear KM,
After we received issue #109, my wife pointed
something out to me. She said, When there is a
female on the cover, she is generally scantily clad
and well proportioned, but when there is a guy
on the cover he is covered from head to toe and
looks like a jerk.
Im inclined to agree with her after looking
back in retrospect. She would like to see some
nice-looking guys on the cover a hunk. I
have no problem with that. It might even entice
some more women to get into the game.
Another thing I have to say has to do with
when you started making posters available of the
front covers: Bravo for Lady Valshea! More
should become available! I cant say enough
the Lady Valshea poster is beautiful!
Scott P. Devine
Salem, Mass.
Trent Raley
Poway, Calif.
Since dust of appearance negates the effects of
cloaks of displacement (DMG, p. 143), its safe
to assume that it will also spoil the power of a
displacer beast. The creatures true form will
become visible, and it won't be able to displace
for the duration of the effect of the dust.
The books we review are not available for sale
from DRAGON Magazine or TSR, Inc.
unless, of course, TSR published the book. You
should be able to find any of them in your local
bookstore, or if they aren't on the shelves the
proprietor of the store can usually place an order
for a specific title. KM
A few months ago, Keith Parkinson
broke the ice by being the first DRAGON
Magazine cover artist to sell posters of his
work. And now, the roster of artist/
entrepreneurs includes Robin too
Robin Wood, that is. She called a while
ago to let us know that Music Lover
(issue #97) is being produced for sale as an
11 x 14 poster.
Each print will be numbered and signed
by the artist, shrink-wrapped in protective
plastic, and mailed flat. The limited-
edition prints will be sold to the first 250
people who send a $35 payment to Robin
at 80 Princeton Arms North 1, Cranbury
NJ 08512. If the demand turns out to be
greater than the supply, Robin says shell
make extra prints (unsigned and unnum-
bered) available for $25 each, and people
who ordered the $35 print will be given a
chance to buy one of the less expensive
versions and receive a rebate. Since
Music Lover is one of the most popular
covers weve printed in the last year or so,
I expect the prints to sell fast; if you want
one, order it soon.
I hope that this news will spur some of
our other artists into marketing their
paintings as posters, too. That means you,
Denis . . . and you, Clyde . . . and you,
Larry. . . and Dean . . . and . . .
His and hers
Practically all of our cover paintings fall into
one of two categories; lets call them fine art
and game art. Fine art is just that: a painting
that is rendered with such a high degree of techni-
cal excellence that we cant pass it up. That
category includes, but is not limited to, paintings
of scantily clad, well-proportioned women, such
as Keith Parkinson's Lady Valshea (#106).
Game art must also be well rendered, but has
an extra element that makes it even more attrac-
tive to us: it depicts a scene that could occur in a
game context. Attack of the Taer by Daniel
Horne (#109) features a monster from the
AD&D® game and a man who is wisely (consider-
ing the circumstances) outfitted in the best armor
his gold pieces could buy
We don't go out looking for fine art, but if
someone shows us a beautiful painting well
consider it. The cover of this issue, by the way, is
fine art: As you're probably already noticed,
those aren't game dragons that Denis Beauvais
has depicted but how could we turn down such
a striking piece of art?
We do actively solicit game art; in fact, Daniel
Horne produced Attack of the Taer in response
to our specific request for something game-
related. (And if you liked that painting, wait till
you see his next one.)
If someone shows us a painting of a hunk,
and it strikes us as something wed be proud to
print, then well do that. But if that hunk is
engaged in combat with a monster, hed better be
wearing more than a scowl and a loincloth.
On the subject of posters, I have to set the
record straight: Lady Valshea was not offered
for sale by DRAGON Magazine, and we (the
magazine) have no plans to get into the poster
business. We have encouraged several of our
cover artists to make posters available, however,
and we recently got word that Robin Wood is
doing just that; see the space at the right. KM
Dear Dragon,
In The barbarian cleric (issue #109), I only
remember seeing masculine pronouns when
describing actions, ownership, etc. Is it possible
to have a female cleric, or dont the tribes allow
female clerics?
Also, concerning Worth its weight in gold:
How do dwarves react to half-dwarves (if possi-
ble) and half-elves that may grow beards?
Bill Voshell
Marydel, Md.
In most of the articles we publish, masculine
pronouns are used to refer to both sexes, because
constructions such as his or hers and he or
she are usually cumbersome and hard to read
through. (If confronted by a monster, he or she
will draw his or her sword. . . . See what I
mean?) If an author writes he or she and the
usage doesnt seem to disrupt the flow of the
article, we will often use the words as they were
written, which is why you sometimes see that
construction in these pages. Otherwise, unless the
context obviously indicates that only the mascu-
line gender is referred to, you can assume that
he stands for he or she, and so forth. Is it
possible to have a female barbarian cleric? Sure,
if you assume that women can attain positions of
prominence within the tribe.
About dwarves and beards: As far as I know,
the half-dwarf has not been described as a racial
type in the AD&D® game. Its certainly possible
for you to develop a half-dwarf in your campaign,
but if you do, then youll have to decide how that
race fits into the scheme of things. And how do
dwarves react to half-elves with beards? I suppose
pretty much the same way they react to any
bearded non-dwarf: The beard certainly doesnt
hurt, but if the person under the beard isnt a
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