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D RAGON 1 Publisher: Mike Cook Editor-in-Chief: Kim Mohan Summer what? Editorial staff: Marilyn Favaro Roger Raupp Most of you who read this magazine are Patrick L. Price presently enjoying the part of the aca- Vol. VIII, No. 1 July 1983 Mary Kirchoff demic year that I always found the most Roger Moore fun summer vacation. Whether you Business manager: SPECIAL ATTRACTION Mary Parkinson have a job for a while before going back Office staff: Sharon Walton to the books, or whether it really is a Pam Maloney Can Seapoint Be Saved? . 45 Layout designer: vacation, at least summer represents a Kristine L. Bartyzel change from what you do the other nine Another winning AD&D adventure Contributing editor: Ed Greenwood National advertising representative: or ten months of the year. Robert Dewey But if theres something like summer c/o Robert LaBudde & Associates, Inc. vacation in the gaming magazine busi- OTHER FEATURES 2640 Golf Road ness, nobodys told us about it yet. And Glenview IL 60025 for the gaming industry in general, Phone (312)724-5860 The ecology of the mimic . .6 summer is anything but a vacation. This This issues contributing artists: is the time of year when most of the The Nine Hells, Part I.. .16 Jack Crane Phil Foglio major game conventions are held and From Avernus through Stygia Roger Raupp Dave Trampier that means its also the time of year when Larry Elmore companies release lots of new products. That brings me, in a roundabout way, Mutants, men (?), and machines . .34 DRAGON Magazine (ISSN 0279-6848) is pub- GAMMA WORLD® creatures lished monthly for a subscription price of $24 per to the point of this speech. By the time year by Dragon Publishing, a division of TSR you read this, we will be finished with the Hobbies, Inc. The mailing address of Dragon production of Volume III of the BEST Beyond the rule book . 38 Publishing for all material except subscription orders is P.O. Box 110, Lake Geneva WI 53147. OF DRAGON® anthology. Were also Guidelines for the prospective GM working steadily, if not (yet) frantically, DRAGON Magazine is available at hobby stores and bookstores throughout the United on finishing our DRAGONTALES II Language lessons States and Canada, and through a limited fiction anthology. Also in the preparation number of overseas outlets. Subscription rates are I: Even Orcish is logical . .54 as follows: $24 for 12 issues sent to an address in stage is a volume containing all of the II: All games need names . 58 the U.S. or Canada; $50 U.S. for 12 issues sent via Wormy episodes weve ever published. By surface mail or $95 for 12 issues sent via air mail to any other country. All subscription payments my reckoning, only about three percent of UK revisited: Games Fair 83 . 76 must be in advance, and should be sent to Dragon the people reading DRAGON® magazine EGG had a jolly good time Publishing, P.O. 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Off and billed for a subscription order or a back-issue purchase unless, prior arrangements are made. on, weve been using part of this space to Out on a Limb . 3 announce module contest winners, and Letters from readers The issue of expiration for each subscription is printed on the mailing label for each subscriber's this time the person in the spotlight is copy of the magazine. Changes of address for the Bob Waldbauer of Delavan, Wis., who delivery of subscriptions must be received at least From the Sorcerers Scroll . 4 30 days prior to the effective date of the change in won category A-7 with this issues special New denizens of devildom order to insure uninterrupted delivery). inclusion, Can Seapoint Be Saved? Finishing close behind Bobs entry in All material published in DRAGON Magazine Figure Feature: Humanoids . 68 becomes the exclusive property of the publisher the judging were Mystery of the Name- upon publication, unless special arrangements to less Isle by Colin Nordell of Ontario, the contrary are made prior to publication. DRAGON Magazine welcomes unsolicited sub- Canada, and The Lost Cathedral by Review section: missions of written material and artwork; how- Daniel Biemer of Louisville, Ky., the Runequest Companion . 70 ever, no responsibility for such submissions can be assumed by the publisher in any event. Any second-place and third-place winners, The Solomani Rim . 72 submission which is accompanied by a self- respectively. Tales stranger than fantasy. 74 addressed, stamped envelope of sufficient size will be returned if it cannot be published. Our appreciation and congratulations go to all the prize winners, along with SF/gaming convention calendar . 78 DRAGON™ is a trademark for Dragon Pub- our thanks to everyone else who entered lishing’s monthly adventure playing aid. All rights on the contents of this publication are category A-7 and made the judging that reserved, and nothing may be reproduced from it much more difficult. Dont get the wrong Gamers Guide . 79 in whole or in part without prior permission in writing from the publisher. Copyright © 1983 by idea we like it when the judging is TSR Hobbies, Inc. tough. That means at least most of the Whats New . 85 entries in a category were high-quality Second-class postage paid at Lake Geneva, Wis., and additional mailing offices. pieces of work, so we can be sure that the Wormy . 88 winner we print is going to be a winner POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Dragon Publishing, P.O. Box 110, Lake Geneva with you, too. WI 53147. USPS 318-790. ISSN 0279-6848. DRAGON, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, ADVANCED D&D, TOP SECRET, and GAMMA WORLD are registered trademarks owned by TSR Hobbies, Inc. TRAVELLER is a registered trademark owned by Game Designers’ Workshop, Inc. RUNEQUEST is a registered trademark owned by Chaosium Inc. 2 JULY 1983 ven though I’ve tried and tried to resist the tempta- tion, I can’t help referring to this one as a devil of an issue — or, perhaps more properly put, an issue of devils. No, that’s not entirely accurate, but more than 20 of the pages inside are devoted to descrip- tions of new devils and devil-types for the AD&D™ game, along with “facts” about what the environment is like on the var- of, a letter but for obvious reasons were PBM problems making a couple of exceptions to that policy. ious planes of the Nine Hells. It’s not a (See the following letter as well.) place to spend your summer vacation — Dear Editor: Unfortunately, Mr. Gray is not immediately except, of course, in your imagination. The April issue of DRAGON Magazine con- available for us to obtain comments from him Leading off the devil section is a pre- tamed an article entitled “The PBM Scene: about Mr. Clemens assertions. But this letter sentation of the manuscripts that E. Gary Facts you can use when you choose what game just came to our attention on the day before Gygax has composed over the last few to play.” Unfortunately, the information about deadline for this issue, and rather than hold years (since the release of the Monster UNIVERSE II contained in the article was not onto it and wait another month to correct the Manual) on the hierarchy of The Nine factual. To begin with, the address shown had address error, we decided to use the letter now Hells and some of the previously unre- not been accurate for two years. Since mail and contact Mr. Gray at a later date. Maybe from that address is no longer even forwarded, hell have something to say in explanation (or corded devil-types that live there. in defense) of what he wrote, and if so well be Next is part I of “The Nine Hells,” a anyone trying to contact us will assume we are no longer in business. pleased to print his letter next time. KM massive treatise composed by contribut- The article stated that UNIVERSE III was a ing editor Ed Greenwood in an effort to “new version” of the game, implying that it is flesh out what Gary had already done. Ed different than UNIVERSE II. This is not the Dear Editor: presents his educated speculations about case, as both are processed using the same Thank you (and Mr. Gray) for your recent what each of the separate planes is like, computer program. Each game operates four coverage of the Play-By-Mail gaming industry. and descriptions of the individual devils quadrants of space which are adjacent to each We would like to point out that in issue #72 of that Gary mentions but doesn’t detail. other. DRAGON magazine, page 31, the address of Because Ed’s manuscript was so long, we It is apparent that Mr. Gray had such Schubel & Son was incorrectly listed.