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D RAGON 1 Publisher: Mike Cook Editor-in-Chief: Kim Mohan It can be won Editorial staff: Marilyn Favaro Gali Sanchez This issue marks somewhat of a spe- Roger Raupp cial occasion: the announcement and Patrick L. Price publication of the first winner in our Business manager: Debra Chiusano Vol. VII, No. 9 March 1983 Module Design Contest. Congratula- Office staff: Sharon Walton tions to Donald Mumma of Lyons, Ind., Pam Maloney for THE TAMING OF BRIMSTONE, an Product design: Eugene S. Kostiz SPECIAL ATTRACTION Layout designer: Kristine L. Bartyzel idea that we judged to be the most Contributing editors: Roger Moore unusual and most refreshing entry in THE TAMING OF BRIMSTONE.. 35 Ed Greenwood the category for BOOT HILL™ adven- Our first contest winner: National advertising representative: tures. Don is a member of that big A BOOT HILL™ adventure Robert LaBudde & Associates, Inc. gamers’ club otherwise known as the 2640 Golf Road U.S. Army. He “built” the town of Brim- Glenview IL 60025 Phone (312)724-5860 stone while stationed in Germany, and reports having tested it on six different This issue’s contributing artists: groups of players. However, he doesn’t Clyde Caldwell Phil Foglio mention whether any of those charac- Steve Chappell Brian Born OTHER FEATURES ters finished what they started. Harry Quinn Edward Atwood The second-place contestant in the Roger Raupp E. B. Wagner The Blink of a Wizard’s Eye...... 11 Jeff Easley Dave Trampier “cowboy category” is Ed R. Teixeira of Don’t worry, it’s only a story Hayward, Calif., and the third-place DRAGON Magazine (ISSN 0279-6848) is pub- winner is Eric Conrad of Weymouth, lished monthly for a subscription price of $24 Mass. Our regards to the winners, and Mind of the monster . 14 per year by Dragon Publishing, a division of TSR Give creatures credit Hobbies, inc., P.O. Box 110, Lake Geneva WI our thanks to everyone else who en- 53147. tered but couldn’t be recognized. This is an appropriate time to point GREYHAWK’S WORLD . 19 DRAGON Magazine is available at hobby Four uncharacteristic characters stores and bookstores throughout the United out the rather obvious fact that it is States and Canada, and through a limited number possible to construct a prize-winning of overseas outlets. Subscription rates are as Who gets the first swing?. 23 follows: $24 for 12 issues sent to a U.S. or Cana- entry for our contest and stay within dian address; $50 U.S. for 12 issues sent via the limitations set down by the rules. A A new way to manage melee surface mail or $95 for 12 issues sent via air mail to any other country. All payments must be in few people have complained to us about advance. the stipulation that modules have to A limited quantity of certain back issues of use the official rules for a game, and DRAGON Magazine can be purchased directly additions to the rules will only be al- from the publisher by sending the cover price lowed when they are necessary be- plus $1.50 postage and handling for each issue REGULAR OFFERINGS ordered. Payment in advance by check or mon- cause of the nature of the module. ey order must accompany all orders. Payments A referee who reads through the cannot be made through a credit card, and Out on a Limb. 3 orders cannot be taken nor merchandise re- module in this magazine will note many served by telephone. Neither an individual cus- additions to the rules — all of them Letters from readers tomer nor an institution can be billed for a sub- scription order or a back-issue purchase unless necessary because of how the module From the Sorceror’s Scroll . 5 prior arrangements are made. is designed, and none of them in con- flict with any of the systems in the game Official new druid spells The issue of expiration for each subscription is printed on the mailing label for each subscrib- rules. What you won’t find in it are new er’s copy of the magazine. Changes of address kinds of guns, new ways of defining or Sage Advice. 47 for the delivery of subscriptions must be received Astral questions & answers at least 30 days prior to the effective date of the generating character abilities, or any change in order to insure uninterrupted delivery. other changes of that sort. Don’t try to redesign a game to your liking; that’s Deities & Demigods All material published in DRAGON Magazine of Greyhawk . 52 becomes the exclusive property of the publisher okay in the privacy of your own playing upon publication, unless special arrangements group, but when you write a module for to the contrary are made prior to publication. Convention schedule . 60 DRAGON Magazine welcomes unsolicited sub- our contest you have to stick by the missions of written material and artwork; how- rules, so your adventure will be usable ever, no responsibility for such submissions can Game reviews: be assumed by the publisher in any event. Any and enjoyable by everyone who tries to submission which is accompanied by a self- run it. Swordbearer . 66 addressed, stamped envelope of sufficient size Dunzhin . 70 will be returned if it cannot be published. * * * DRAGON™ is a trademark for Dragon Publish- In my editorial in issue #69, I referred What’s New . 76 ing’s monthly adventure playing aid. All rights on the contents of this publication are reserved, to Gary Gygax as the “creator” of the and nothing may be reproduced from it in whole two most popular fantasy role-playing Dragon Mirth. 78 or in part without prior permission in writing from the publisher. Copyright © 1983 by TSR games. This was not meant to imply Hobbies, Inc. that Gary Gygax is the sole creator of Wormy. 79 ® Second-class postage paid at Lake Geneva, the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS game; Wis., and additional mailing offices. in fact, Gary Gygax is a co-creator of that game. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Dragon Publishing, P.O. Box 110, Lake Geneva WI 53147. USPS 318-790. ISSN 0279-6848. DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, ADVANCED D&D, and TOP SECRET are registered trademarks owned by TSR Hobbies, Inc. ™designates other trademarks owned by TSR Hobbies, Inc., unless otherwise indicated. ith apologies to the guy who does the intro for The Lone Ranger TV show, we here- by invite you to “return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear.” Sit tall in the saddle, get a few friends together, and take a shot at THE TAMING OF BRIMSTONE, the first adventure we’ve ever published for the BOOT HILL™ game and the first announced winner in our Module Design Plea for psionics painted figures as in issues #63 and #68. Maybe some other figure painters would want Contest. At first glance, Brimstone might Dear Editor: to send in pictures of their miniatures, and seem like a nice enough little place — but In all the Issues of DRAGON I have col- you could set aside a page or two to display wait till you get to know it! lected, I cannot recall ever seeing an article them. I would also like to see more figure For those of you who prefer spells and dedicated to the use of psionics in an AD&D reviews in future issues. swords to six-guns and saddlebags, setting. I know I’m not alone when I say that Michael Blum we’ve got Brimstone surrounded with a I’m greatly interested in learning more about Farmington Hills, Mich. heaping helping of AD&D™ material. The the effects and limitations of psionics. longest and one of the strongest articles Would it be possible to have one of your Without meaning to sound mysterious, Michael, I can say that we’ve made some defi- is Ronald Hall’s detailed presentation of talented staff research and write an article on psionics? I eagerly look forward to seeing nite arrangements to print some more full- something he calls the Attack Priority such an undertaking, and in particular the color photos of miniatures within the next system. It isn’t very often that someone answers to these questions: If a demon or issue or two. And if you saw last month’s comes up with a variation on the AD&D devil is psionically killed on the Prime Mate- magazine, you know we’re resurrecting our melee combat system that’s both sensi- rial Plane, is he still just banished to his own figure review column, now being prepared by ble and simple to use, but we think this is plane? And, can a psionic creature or charac- expert evaluator Kim Eastland. just such an article — and we hope all ter get a “free shot” on the first assault upon a Setting aside even just a page or two for you sword-swingers out there agree. similar character, using Table IV. B. (Psionic figure photos isn’t as easy as it may seem; Just to prove he’s not neutral on the Attack Upon Defenseless Psionic), or does sometimes an article will end up running longer than we estimate, and pages get taken subject of druids, Gary Gygax has con- the opponent’s defense go up immediately prior to the initial attack? up that we would have liked to use for other jured up a collection of official new Brett A. Rock things. We ran out of room in this issue and spells for that class in this issue’s edition Dunstable, Mass. couldn’t give you another “Figure Feature” of From the Sorceror’s Scroll.