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Dragon Magazine #183 SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS Issue #183 Alien realms of science and fantasy Vol. XVII, No. 2 9 Wizards, lasers, and UFOs in role-playing games. July 1992 Magic & Technology Meet At Last! Bruce Nesmith Publisher 10 Welcome the fourth-edition GAMMA WORLD® gameto your AD&D® James M. Ward campaign! Advice to a High Lord Martin Wixted Editor 14 The intricate ins and outs of West End Gamess TORG* system. Roger E. Moore Avast, ye swabs, and heave to! L. Richard Baker III Associate editor 21 Its a pirates life in the SPELLJAMMER® campaign! Dale A. Donovan Unidentified Gaming Object Gregory W. Detwiler 28 A gamers view of UFO theories (with a saucer-full of gaming hooks). Fiction editor Barbara G. Young F ICTION Editorial assistant Wolfgang H. Baur Gryphons Nest fiction by Ardath Mayhar 74 Being a mother is naturally hard work. But being a mother gryphon, Art director now. Larry W. Smith Production staff R EVIEWS Gaye OKeefe Angelika Lokotz Role-playing Reviews Rick Swan Tracey Zamagne 50 You can face either a BattleMech or an Alien Queen. Take your pick. Subscriptions The Role of Computers Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser Janet L. Winters 57 Role-play an empire racing for the stars in Civilization! U.S. advertising The Role of Books John C. Bunnell Roseann Schnering 88 Supernatural evil invades the modern world. Will it win, or will we? Through the Looking Glass Robert Bigelow U.K. correspondent 112 From Martians to missile tanks: a look at science-fiction miniatures. and U.K. advertising Wendy Mottaz O THER FEATURES The Voyage of the Princess Ark Bruce A. Heard 41 They had the most peculiar appetites-and the worst hospitality to guests. The Vikings Dragons Jean Rabe 65 The rest of the linnorms, for better or Norse. The MARVEL®-Phile Steven E. Schend 79 Double trouble for the foes of Excalibur: Cerise and Kylun. The Game Wizards Anne Brown 100 Ever wish for a fantasy-world catalog that had everything? Here it is. D EPARTMENTS 5 Letters 72 TSR Previews 102 Dragonmirth 6 Editorial 84 Forum 104 Twilight Empire 37 Convention Calendar 92 Sage Advice 108 Gamers Guide COVER In the SPELLJAMMER universe, graceful giants called the kindori trace their ancient migratory routes across wildspace, seemingly unaware of their human hitchhikers. Mike L. Scott, our cover artist, painted Whales in Space using oils. For information on prints of this and other pieces, write to: Stellar Graphics, P.O. Box 14546, Madison WI 53714-0546, U.S.A. 4 JULY 1992 DRAGON® Magazine (ISSN 0279-6848) is published monthly by TSR, Inc., P.O. Box 756 (201 Sheridan Springs Road), Lake Geneva WI 53147, United States of America. The postal address for all materials from the United States of America and Canada except subscription orders is: DRAGON® Magazine, P.O. Box 111, (201 Sheridan Springs Road), Lake Geneva WI 53147, U.S.A.; telephone (414) 248-3625; fax (414) 248-0389. The postal address for all materials from Europe is: DRAGON Magazine, TSR Ltd., 120 Church End, Cherry Hinton, Cam- bridge CB1 3LB, United Kingdom; telephone, (0223) 212517 [U.K.), 44-223-212517 (international); telex. 818761; fax (0223) 248066 (U.K.), 44-223-248066 (international). Distribution: DRAGON Magazine is available from game What did you think of this issue? Do you have and hobby shops throughout the United States, Canada, the AD&D® 2nd Edition game. Specialty priests of United Kingdom, and through a limited number of other a question about an article or have an idea for a Sheela Peryroyl have major access to the follow- overseas outlets. Distribution to the book trade in the United new feature you’d like to see? In the United ing spheres: all, animal, elemental, healing, States is by Random House, Inc., and in Canada by Random House of Canada, Ltd. 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Newsstand distribution Magazine, TSR Ltd., 120 Church End, Cherry throughout the United Kingdom is by Comag Magazine druids is in error; 80% of them are normal Marketing, Tavistock Road, West Drayton, Middlesex UB7 7QE, Hinton, Cambridge CB1 3LB, United Kingdom. clerics and 20% of them are specialty priests, as United Kingdom; telephone: 0895-444055. halflings cannot normally be druids in the Subscriptions: Subscription rates via second-class mail are as follows: $30 in U.S. funds for 12 issues sent to an address in AD&D 2nd Edition rules (if you’re not so strict, the U.S. or Canada: £21 for 12 issues sent to an address within 5% can be true druids, by special permission of the United Kingdom; £30 for 12 issues sent to an address in Kwikeez Sheela, and 15% specialty priests). Europe; $50 in U.S. funds for 12 issues sent by surface mail to #177, any other address, or $90 in U.S. funds for 12 issues sent air Issue “The Heroic Worlds Role-Playing mail to any other address. Payment in full must accompany all We’ve received a number of readers’ letters Game Quiz: A British reader informs us that the payment include checks or money orders made payable to DRAGON WARRIORS* game (mentioned in TSR, Inc., or charges to valid MasterCard or VISA credit cards; that require only short answers, so we’ll print send subscription orders with payments to: TSR, Inc., P.O. Box the answers here without the letters themselves question #14) is actually composed of six (not 5695, Boston MA 02206, U.S.A. In the United Kingdom, (it seems more convenient that way). four) mass-market paperbacks from Corgi methods of payment include cheques or money orders made Issue #114, “The Witch”: Witches cannot use Books. payable to TSR Ltd., or charges to a valid ACCESS or VISA credit card; send subscription orders with payments to TSR clerical magical items unless such are meant for Issue #179, “The Role of Computers”: The Ltd., as per that address above. Prices are subject to change use by wizards or all classes. A witch cannot turn photo credits for the game Conquests of the without prior notice. The issue of expiration of each subscrip- or command undead, either If you choose to Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood should tion is printed on the mailing label of each subscriber’s copy of the magazine. Changes of address for the delivery of subscrip- allow a player-character witch these powers, note have attributed the game to Sierra, not tion copies must be received at least six weeks prior to the that she will be quite powerful and might make Renovation. effective date of the change in order to assure uninterrupted Issue #179, “Through the Looking Glass”: The delivery. other spell-casting classes redundant in an adven- Back issues: A limited quantity of back issues is available ture; her power base, which is wide already, photo credit for Hartha the Death Machine from either the TSR Mail Order Hobby Shop (P.O. Box 756, becomes extreme. Allowing an NPC witch these should have noted that this miniatures kit was Lake Geneva WI 53147, U.S.A.) or from TSR Ltd. For a free powers merely makes her more of a challenge to made by RAFM Company, Inc.., not Thunderbolt copy of the current catalog that lists available back issues, write to either of the above addresses. those who oppose her, which isn’t so bad. Mountain. Submissions: All material published in DRAGON Magazine Issue #169, “New Weapons for Old”: The Issue #180, “Colorful Connection”: Regarding becomes the exclusive property of the publisher, unless special names “morning star” and “flail” have been the flightless bird, look under “Flightless bird,” arrangements to the contrary are made prior to publication. DRAGON Magazine welcomes unsolicited submissions of applied to a variety of weapons. Depending on page 41. We’re not trying to mislead you; we’re written material and artwork, however, no responsibility for the reference used, from gaming source book to only being clever such submissions can be assumed by the publisher in any dictionary, you could be looking at a heavy Other: The lines of AD&D, DRAGONLANCE®, event. Any submission accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope of sufficient size will be returned if it cannot spiked club, a pole connected to a shorter FORGOTTEN REALMS®, GAMMARAUDERS™: be published. We strongly recommend that prospective authors striking pole by a swivel or chain, or a handle and SPELLJAMMER® comic books produced by write for our writers’ guidelines before sending an article to us. with one or more chains connected to spiked DC Comics have been discontinued. There are no In the United States and Canada, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope (9½” long preferred) to. Writers’ Guidelines, iron balls. 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