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Dragon Magazine #201 Issue #201 Vol. XVIII, No. 7 January 1994 SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS Publisher TSR, Inc. Fantasy Cities Never Sleep 9 Explore urban opportunities for magic and mayhem. Associate Publisher Brian Thomsen 10The City of Lofty Pillars Steve Kurtz Editor-in-Chief Can you find the lost city of the AL-QADIM® setting? Kim Mohan Turkeys Underground Cities Allen Varney Associate editor Read about Allens Amazing Adventure; learn about Dale A. Donovan 16 these real-world dungeons. Fiction editor Barbara G. Young The Evolution of a Castle Thomas Reid 24Building a castle requires more than a pencil and Editorial assistant graph paper. Wolfgang H. Baur Seven Steps to a Successful Castle Art director Larry W. Smith L. Richard Baker III 33Use these expanded castle-construction rules to build Production staff your PCs ultimate abode. Tracey Isler Angelika Lokotz Subscriptions Janet L. Winters FICTION U.S. advertising Cindy Rick The River Children Peni R. Griffin 88Three lost children are the key to entering the afterworld. U.K. correspondent and U.K. advertising Wendy Mottaz Editorial Contributions Janis Wells Lisa Neuberger DRAGON® Magazine (ISSN 0279-6848) is publishedtion throughout the United Kingdom is by Comag monthly by TSR, Inc., P.O. Box 756 (201 Sheridan Magazine Marketing, Tavistock Road, West Drayton, Springs Road), Lake Geneva WI 53147, United States Middlesex UB7 7QE, United Kingdom; telephone: of America. The postal address for all materials from 0895-444055. the United States of America and Canada except Subscriptions: Subscription rates via second-class subscription orders is: DRAGON® Magazine, P.O. Box mail are as follows: $30 in U.S. funds for 12 issues 111, (201 Sheridan Springs Road), Lake Geneva WI sent to an address in the U.S.; $36 in U.S. funds for 12 53147, U.S.A.; telephone (414) 248-3625; fax (414) issues sent to an address in Canada; £21 for 12 issues 248-0389. 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Through the Looking Glass Robert Bigelow 112 Taking a look at the new WARHAMMER* 40K game. FEATURES The Dragon Project Sandy Petersen 46 Introducing Rofocale of Hill Marlyprig for Chaosiums PENDRAGON game. The Game Wizards Roger E. Moore 50 History can be fun with Roger of Mooria! Spice up your campaign with the AD&D® Historical Reference series. COVER We discovered the painting by The 10 Commandments of Tournament Writing Mark Pool that graces this month's 76 Jonathan Evans cover at the GEN CON® Game Fair. It's Thou shalt write good tournament adventures. detail and majesty convinced us that it was perfect for this issue. Undiscovered Treasure Troves James Patrick Serendipity is a wonderful thing. 99 Buchanan The library is a cornucopia of gaming ideas. 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In Europe, write to: Letters, Dear Dragon, my opinion, those are some pretty good DRAGON Magazine, TSR Ltd., 120 Church I’ve always had a great interest in the benefits from "playing a game." End, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge CB1 3LB, culture of India. This interest was heightened United Kingdom. by Michael J. Varhola’s article on Indian weapons and armor in DRAGON issue #189 TSR on-line [Rhino's Armor, Tiger's Claws]. Now that I D&D® gamers have Indian equipment, I’m hoping to see a Dear Dragon, campaign setting in which to use them. Has TSR, Inc., ever considered putting up a abandoned? Robin Dunning BBS (bulletin-board system) that was solely No address given for the discussion of role-playing games? Dear Dragon, P. Matra DRAGON issue #197’s “Known World Gri- Hmm, that sounds to me like a challenge to New York NY moire” contained the very disturbing news all the writers in our readership.
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