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DRAGON Magazine (ISSN 0279-6848) Is Pub- and Written Large Enough So We Don’T Beg, Borrow, Or Steal? D RAGON 1 Letter etiquette Publisher: Mike Cook There was a time when the editor of Editor-in-Chief: Kim Mohan Vol. VII, No. 7 December 1982 this magazine implored readers to write Editorial staff: Marilyn Favaro letters, so that we could be sure of hav- Gali Sanchez ing some stuff to put in “Out on a Limb” SPECIAL ATTRACTION Roger Raupp every month. Those days are long gone; Weather in the Patrick L. Price hundreds of thousands of people now WORLD OF GREYHAWK . 42 Business manager: Debra Chiusano read DRAGON™ Magazine, and even A climate for campaigning though still only a small fraction of our Office staff: Sharon Walton readers write Ietters to the editor, our Contributing editors: Roger Moore “Limb” file is always overflowing. OTHER FEATURES Ed Greenwood How can you give your letter the best Be a two-fisted fighter. 7 possible chance of being printed? There This issue's contributing artists: are some simple, and fairly obvious, Using weapons in both hands Carl Lundgren Dave Trampier Jeff Easley guidelines you should follow. Phil Foglio The most obvious, and most often vio- GEN CON® Miniature Kim Gromoll Daniel Wickstrom Open winners. 11 Jim Holloway L. Blankenship lated, guideline is simply this: Write it so Mike Carroll M. Hanson-Roberts we can read it. We don’t require letter- Up, up and away . 14 Roger Raupp Brian Born perfect typewritten copy, but we do ex- The DAWN PATROL™ game pect legible handwriting, loosely spaced DRAGON Magazine (ISSN 0279-6848) is pub- and written large enough so we don’t Beg, borrow, or steal? . 16 lished monthly for a subscription price of $24 have to squint to read it. Variant for Barbarian Prince per year by Dragon Publishing, a division of TSR No letter will be considered for publi- Hobbies, Inc., P.O. Box 110, Lake Geneva WI 53147. cation unless it is signed with the writer’s Thrills and Chills . 18 real name and address. If you don’t think Ice Age adventuring DRAGON Magazine is available at hundreds of hobby stores and bookstores throughout the enough of your opinion to put your name Castles by Carroll . 29 United States and Canada, and through a limit- on it, you can’t expect us to respect it ed number of of overseas outlets. Subscription enough to print it. First of a series rates are as follows, with all payments to be made in advance: $24 for 12 issues To be sure your letter is considered for or Canadian address; $50 U.S. for 12 issues sent What’s that in the Water? . 36 via surface mail or $95 for 12 issues sent via air publication, address it to “Out on a Aquatic encounter tables mail to any other country. Limb.” If you just want to express some thoughts for the editor’s eyes but not for A limited quantity of certain back issues of Gaming by mail . 60 DRAGON Magazine can be purchased directly print, say so. We read everything we re- The good & bad of PBM from the publisher by sending the cover price ceive, but we'll only print a letter if we plus $1.50 postage and handling for each issue ordered. Payment in advance by check or mon- know it’s okay with the writer to do so. You’ve always got a chance.. 81 ey order must accompany all orders. Payments Don’t try to get published by being New use for ability scores cannot be made through a credit card, and provocative or insuIting. We do publish orders cannot be taken nor merchandise re- served by telephone. 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Letters pertaining to this New spells for high-level M-U’s All material published in DRAGON Magazine becomes the exclusive property of the publisher issue (#68), for instance, will probably upon publication, unless special arrangements Leomund’s Tiny Hut . l 30 to the contrary are made prior to publication. not appear any later than #70 or #71, The cloistered cleric DRAGON Magazine welcomes unsolicited sub- which means you’ve got about 3 or 4 missions of written material and artwork; how- weeks to form an opinion, write a letter, ever, no responsibility for such submissions can Deities & Demigods be assumed by the publisher in any event. Any and get it to us in time. of Greyhawk . 63 submission which is accompanied by a self- Last but not least, put your best foot addressed, stamped envelope of sufficient size wiII be returned to the contributor if it cannot be forward. You don’t have to agonize over Dragon’s Augury. 76 published. every word, dot all your i’s and cross all Game reviews DRAGON™ is a trademark for Dragon Publish- your t’s, but you should be sure that your ing’s monthly adventure playing aid. All rights letter says what you mean it to say, and Convention schedule. 82 on the contents of this publication are reserved, we’ll be able to understand the point and nothing may be reproduced from it in whole Off the Shelf . 83 or in part without prior permission in writing you’re making. If we get done reading a Books make good gifts from the publisher. Copyright © 1982 by TSR letter and our first reaction is “Huh?” Hobbies, Inc. then you’ve wasted your time and your Wormy . 92 Second-class postage paid at Lake Geneva, 20-cent stamp. We value each of our Wis., and additional mailing offices. readers’ letters highly, whether or not What’s New . 93 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to that letter gets published — but only if Dragon Publishing, P.O. Box 110, Lake Geneva we can understand what you have to say. Dragon Mirth . 96 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. 2 DECEMBER 1982 ark Twain, a fantasy writer of a different sort from a dif- ferent time, once remarked that “Everybody complains about the weather, but no- body does anything about it.” Well, an ingenious and energetic DM by the name of David Axler has done something about it. The special inclusion in this month’s issue of DRAGON™ Magazine is Dave’s Language articles interesting to some people, and the use of different languages in FRP games adds real- system for generating weather condi- Dear Editor: ism and complexity to the games, the article tions in an AD&D™ environment, using I was very pleased by the articles in issue on Cant went too far in this direction. The the WORLD OF GREYHAWK™ Fantasy #66 concerning languages in AD&D cam- knowledge of the Cant’s uses to thieves does Supplement as the basis for his figures. paigns. The article by A. D. Rogan was espe- not require a two-page explanation, nor an The system has been examined by E. cially good, and it reflected many of the prob- eight-page dictionary. Does the author think Gary Gygax, the man who created the lems that I have observed in two years of play. the players will learn Cant for use when gam- AD&D game and the Greyhawk cam- The author’s construction of language “fami- ing? Absurd! This was a terrible waste of pub- paign, and has received his stamp of ap- lies” is ingenious, and it smooths out some lishing space that could have been used for proval. Even if your campaign isn’t set in very bothersome problems with “official” lan- issues of broader interest. The same goes for the world of Oerth, the formulas and sta- guage capabilities. There is an implication the article on Old Dwarvish, though this was a that, for instance, a halfling does not speak smaller work, and thus a smaller waste. I must tistics in Dave’s system are easily adapt- dwarven, elven, gnome, goblin, orcish, and say that the other two language articles are able to other adventuring environments. the common tongue with equal fluency. much more useful, and I was quite happy to Stapled into the center of this 100-page Rather, it is reasonable to postulate that the see them included. Please file the useless issue is a three-page foldout section average halfling could recognize and perhaps trash into the return slot, and keep the space containing some of the essential charts understand a smattering of each of these for more useful and interesting articles. and tables for the system, designed to be tongues, possibly just enough to compre- Karl W. Evoy stood up and used as a screen to keep hend the gist of an overheard goblin plot or Hudson, Ohio the information in front of the DM and warn a group of elves of the approach of an away from the prying eyes of players.
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