Dwarves Features Issue #245 Volume XXII, No. 8 The Heart of the Forge . 22 March 1998 Wolfgang Baur The secrets of dwarven craft—and of dwarven life itself— begin at the forge. Departments Mindstalkers . 36 Bruce R. Cordell Wyrms of the North .............. 50 No denizens of the Underdark are more awful than the Ed Greenwood illithids . and no warriors more deadly than those dwarves Lhammaruntosz, the “Claws of the coast,” is a who hunt them. bronze dragon with an eye for business. Little Rascals . 44 Rogues Gallery ..................... 65 Steve Berman Troy Denning Four new rogue kits for your dwarven PCs, including the From the pages of Crucible: The Trial of Cyric the delver, the hoardsacker, the scurr, and the talebearer. Mad, here are three powerful new characters for your campaign. Fiction: “Honest and True” . 56 Troy Denning Bazaar of the Bizarre . 70 The seraph of lies must find a publisher before Cyric the Kevin Melka Mad enforces the most literal of deadlines. Not all artifacts are magical, but no less precious are these “Dwarven Relics.” Best Behavior . 82 Christopher Perkins Ecology of the Steeder .............. 76 Dwarven etiquette? Yes, there is such a thing and here is Johnathan M. Richards the definitive guide on its finer points. A clever Wizard applies his knowledge of the four sphinxes to gain a Iittle profit. Columns About the Cover The Wyrm’s Turn™ . 4 We first noticed Matt Wilson’s stunning artwork on cards for D-Mail™ . 6 Magic: the Gathering and on the cover of The Duelist #20. Forum . 10 Here he shows us what might have been had Saint George been a trifle shorter. 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