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Dragon Magazine #216 Issue #216 Vol. XIX, No. 11 SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS April 1995 Bazaar of the Bizarre Steven Miller Publisher 10 We liked this article so much, we made TSRs Games TSR, Inc. Dept., hire Steven. Associate Publisher Brian Thomsen Fuzzy Reviews Spike Y. Jones 16 Read these (serious) reviews of plush-animal Editor-in-Chief miniatures rules. (No, we really are serious. Could we Kim Mohan make up something this goofy?) Associate editor Dale A. Donovan April Fools Faxions Tim Beach 22 Add these faxions to your PLANESCAPE campaign. Fiction editor Barbara G. Young We mean it, go ahead, please . Bards on the Run Editorial assistants Wolfgang H. Baur 30 We just cant seem to stop printing these silly songs. Michelle Vuckovich We know its sick and wrong, but were hooked. Its Art director an illness, really. Larry W. Smith Production FICTION Renee Ciske Tracey Isler Dead Mans Curse Roy V. Young 82 Read this excerpt from a book you cant buy until August. Subscriptions Janet L. Winters (Whose idea was this?) U.S. advertising Cindy Rick REVIEWS U.K. correspondent Eye of the Monitor David Zeb Cook and U.K. advertising 63 Carolyn Wildman Turn on your monitor, rev up your hard drive, and open fire on the bad guys in Doom II. DRAGON® Magazine (ISSN 0279-6848) is published Magazine Marketing, Tavistock Road, West Drayton, monthly by TSR, Inc., 201 Sheridan Springs Road, Middlesex UB7 7QE, United Kingdom; telephone: Lake Geneva WI 53147, United States of America. The 0895-444055. postal address for all materials from the United States Subscriptions: Subscription rates via second-class of America and Canada except subscription orders is: mail are as follows: $30 in U.S. funds for 12 issues DRAGON® Magazine, 201 Sheridan Springs Road, sent to an address in the U.S.; $36 in U.S. funds for 12 Lake Geneva WI 53147, U.S.A.; telephone (414) 248- issues sent to an address in Canada; £21 for 12 issues 3625; fax (414) 248-0389. 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Elminster’s Notebook — Ed Greenwood 100 In which El answers the burning question: “What are those kobolds up to?” (Oh, about 3-foot-nothing.—Sorry, that’s an old gnomish joke.) DEPARTMENTS 4 Letters 92 Forum 6 Editorial 106 Dragonmirth 37 Convention 108 Gamers Guide Calendar 120 TSR Previews each subscriber’s copy of the magazine. Changes of Guidelines, c/o DRAGON Magazine, as per the above rights to the contents of this publication are reserved, address for the delivery of subscription copies must be address; include sufficient American postage or and nothing may be reproduced from it in whole or in received at least six weeks prior to the effective date of International Reply Coupons with the return envelope. part without first obtaining permission in writing from the change in order to assure uninterrupted delivery. In Europe, write to: Writers’ Guidelines, c/o DRAGON the publisher. 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