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DRAGON Magazine (ISSN 0279-6848) Is Smartest Floor You'll Ever See Year DRAGON 1 Publisher: Mike Cook Editor-in-Chief: Kim Mohan No foolin Editorial staff: Roger Raupp Patrick Lucien Price Contents Mary Kirchoff It wasnt until the last hour before dead- Vol. VIII, No. 10 April 1984 Roger Moore line that I settled on the subject for this Andria Hayday column. Actually, Roger decided it for me SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS Subscriptions: Mary Cossman while he was putting down the type to finish Layout designer: Kristine L. Bartyzel page 93. Contributing editors: Ed Greenwood The Twofold Talisman . 43 Not much of an April Fools issue, is Katharine Kerr it? he said. An AD&D tournament module Ken Rolston No, it sure isn't. We didnt have room to in two installments Advertising Sales Administrator: Mary Parkinson include any foolish material in this issue, like we have in April issues past, and thats The ARES Section . .69 National advertising representative: 16-page spotlight on SF gaming Robert Dewey bad news enough all by itself. (Well, we 1836 Wagner Road enjoyed it, anyway . .) Glenview IL 60025 Speaking of bad news, you aint heard Phone (312) 998-6237 nothin yet. After three years, Phil Foglio OTHER FEATURES This issue's contributing artists: has decided to give himself some time away Roger Raupp Phil Foglio from the rigors of chronicling Phil & Dixie. A cast of strange familiars . 10 Jim Holloway David Hutton The last installment of Whats New is in Widening an M-Us circle of friends Steve Swenston Kurt Ericksen this issue, and thats reason number two Larry Elmore Davis Trampier why were not in an April fooling mood this The ecology of the trapper. 20 DRAGON Magazine (ISSN 0279-6848) is Smartest floor you'll ever see year. But maybe its fitting that we didnt published monthly for a subscription price of $24 upstage Phil & Dixie in their last appear- per year by Dragon Publishing, a division of ance by using a lot of other funny stuff in Never the same thing twice . 30 TSR, Inc. The mailing address of Dragon Publishing for all material except subscription De-myth-tifying the rakshasa the magazine. Most of the jokes in this issue orders is P.O. Box 110, Lake Geneva WI 53147. are brought to you by Phil Foglio, and he uses his three pages very well. And then there were three . 38 DRAGON Magazine is available at hobby stores and bookstores throughout the United With pride in one eye and a bit of a tear Previewing the D&D® Companion Set States and Canada, and through a limited welling up in the other, we present in this number of overseas outlets. Subscription rates issue of DRAGON® Magazine the first Master of the Winds. 56 are as follows: $24 for 12 issues sent to an address in the U.S., $30 in Canada; $50 U.S. for 12 edition of the ARES Science Fiction Gam- Fiction for the breezy season issues sent via surface mail or $95 for 12 issues ing Section. Were proud of what were sent via air mail to any other country. All subscription payments must be in advance, and going to be doing from now on to serve the should be sent to Dragon Publishing, P.O. Box SF gaming public, but at the same time 72089, Chicago IL 60690. REGULAR OFFERINGS were going to miss ARES Magazine just as A limited quantity of certain back issues of much as its readers will. Out on a Limb . 3 DRAGON Magazine can be purchased from the Maybe in a month or two, when the Dungeon Hobby Shop. (See the list available memories dim and the space opens up a bit, Letters and answers issues printed elsewhere in each magazine.) Pay- ment in advance by check or money order must well bring in our freelance leprechauns to The forum . 6 accompany all orders. Payments cannot be made slap together some foolish pages. (Some through a credit card, and orders cannot be taken of the stuff weve collected is too good to Opinions and observations nor merchandise reserved by telephone. Neither an individual customer nor an institution can be hold onto until next April.) But right now, billed for a subscription order or a back-issue we just dont feel like foolin. Figure Feature. 24 purchase unless prior arrangements are made. Off the shelf . 26 The issue of expiration for each subscription is printed on the mailing label for each subscribers Fantasy and SF book reviews copy of the magazine. Changes of address for the delivery of subscription copies must be received Convention calendar . 36 at least six weeks prior to the effective date of the change in order to insure uninterrupted delivery. Game reviews: All material published in DRAGON Labyrinth makes good . 65 Magazine becomes the exclusive property of the publisher upon publication, unless special ar- FRPs gilded chestnuts. 66 rangements to the contrary are made prior to publication, DRAGON Magazine welcomes Gamers Guide . 85 unsolicited submissions of written material and artwork; however, no responsibility for such sub- missions can be assumed by the publisher in any Snarfquest . 87 event. Any submission which is accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope of sufficient size will be returned if it cannot be published. Whats New? . 90 DRAGON® is a registered trademark for Dragon Mirth . 94 Dragon Publishings monthly adventure playing aid. All rights on the contents of this publication are reserved, and nothing may be reproduced Wormy . 95 from it in whole or in part without first obtaining permission in writing from the publisher. Copyright ©1984 TSR, Inc. DRAGON, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, ADVANCED Second-class postage paid at Lake Geneva, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, ADVANCED D&D, TOP Wis., and additional mailing offices. SECRET, BOOT HILL, and GAMMA WORLD are regis- tered trademarks owned by TSR, Inc. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to designates other trademarks owned by TSR, Inc., unless Dragon Publishing, P.O. Box 110, Lake Geneva otherwise indicated. WI 53147. USPS 318-790, ISSN 0279-6848. 2 APRIL 1984 pril, in the area where this dragon's lair is locates, is a month of change: It's not winter any more, but it's sure not summer yet, either (Wisconsin does have something called spring, but it always either feels like winter or summer, and the name can safely be ignored.) . All of which is to introduce a lot of changes that are happening or about to happen to DRAGON® Magazine. This issue contains the first ARES A rare peryton? magic in essentially the same ways that the ver- Science Fiction Gaming Section, about sion in the article does. Restrictions? Nothing to Dear Dragon, which the editors have much more to say worry about, as long as the new amulet is not so In the February issue (#82), I quickly turned to over-powerful that it unbalances the game in starting on page 69. page 10 for the article on perytons. Somehow, the favor of a character who wears one. This issue contains the last installment of picture just didnt look right, and on page 28 of This simple conversion works not only for Phil Foglios Whats New? comic strip the Monster Manual it states that, its claws are objects described in DRAGON® magazine artic- at least for now for reasons that are too weak to use. The picture on page 10 showed les, but also for procedures and concepts that just explained on page 93. hooves, not claws. That would be a rare specimen happen to be written in the language of a And, were presenting the first indeed! certain game. Dont be turned off by an article tournament-style AD&D module weve Peter Delaney that seems to be about a game you dont play ever done, The Twofold Talisman, begin- Kingston, N.Y. sure, the words in the article are about that other game, but the ideas behind those words ning on page 43. Its also the first two-part Maybe not as rare as you think, Peter. When may hit you right between the ears if you give adventure weve published, and were we researched the peryton for that ecology em a chance. KM looking forward to hearing what you think. presentation, we had a hard time finding infor- Detail-minded artist Dean Morrissey has mation on what this semi-legendary beast looked returned to our cover for the first time since like. The illustration is based on a passage in issue #70 with a painting thats not swords The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Sleeping damage? & sorcery, but undeniably a piece of fantasy Borges, where that author quotes an unnamed art. He calls it Ian Dinwoods Martian Greek scholar who had this to say about the Dear Dragon, Moment, and describes it as a scene in an perytons appearance: The Perytons had their I have a question about Taking the sting out original dwelling in Atlantis and are half deer, of poison (issue #82). The run-time for sleep gas earthly Victorian parlor momentarily trans- half bird. They have the deers head and legs. As was printed 1hp/rd. Is this to imply that the posed (at least in Ians mind) to a tract of for its body, it is perfectly avian, with correspond- victim takes damage as well as falling asleep, or scape on the surface of Mars. So thats why ing wings and plumage. was this merely a misprint? (All other sleep the sky is pink. And thats where the hooves came from. poison had a run time of 1 round). Also, was The first essay to make it from Steven We decided to go with the unnamed Greek in- contact sleep poison excluded for a reason? Innisss typewriter to our pages is this stead of the Monster Manual for three reasons: Brian Dvoretz months lead article, A cast of strange (1) the deers legs make for a creature thats Smithtown, N.Y.
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