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DRAGON Magazine Is Available at Hobby Were Apparently True at the Time He Wrote Stores and Bookstores Throughout the United Halt! Who Goes There? DRAGON 1 Publisher: Mike Cook Editor-in-Chief: Kim Mohan Editorial staff: Roger Raupp Time trouble Patrick Lucien Price Mary Kirchoff One of the things we dont do very well Vol. IX, No. 4 September 1984 Roger Moore (and therefore dont do very often) is keep Subscriptions: Mellody Knull up with happenings in the real world. Its SPECIAL ATTRACTION Contributing Editors: Ed Greenwood tough to be timely when you try to cover Katherine Kerr something in a monthly magazine first of Ken Rolston all because it only comes out once a month, CREATURE CATALOG. .following Advertising Sales Administrator: Twenty-nine new monsters page 46 Mary Parkinson and second of all because we finish produc- tion of an issue one month before it gets This issues contributing artists: Denis Beauvais Keith Parkinson printed and mailed. In even the best of Roger Raupp Larry Elmore cases, that usually translates into at least a OTHER FEATURES Bob Maurus Bob Lilly six-week time lag between when something David Sutherland Kurt Erichsen happens and our first chance to tell you Survival is a group effort . .8 Marsha Kauth E. G. Walters about it. How populations replenish themselves Dave LaForce Craig Smith In the worst of cases, the time lag is Jim Holloway Dave Trampier considerably longer than that. As an exam- Six very special shields . .14 DRAGON® Magazine (ISSN 0279-6848) is ple of how bad things can get, heres the Protection and much, much more published monthly for a subscription price of $24 per year by Dragon Publishing, a division of story of Comstar Enterprises and that com- The many types of magic. .26 TSR, Inc. The mailing address of Dragon panys play-by-mail game, World of Velgor. Alteration, invocation, explanation . Publishing for all material except subscription In late 1983, Mike Gray wrote an article orders is P.O. Box 110, Lake Geneva WI 53147; the business telephone number is (414)248-8044. entitled PBM: Problems by mail. He said The Role of Books . .32 some things about World of Velgor that Sources for medieval warfare DRAGON Magazine is available at hobby were apparently true at the time he wrote stores and bookstores throughout the United Halt! Who goes there? . .34 States and Canada, and through a limited them but which were outdated and not The sharp-eyed sentinel NPC number of overseas outlets. Subscription rates true by the time the article finally appeared are as follows: $24 for 12 issues sent to an address in the May 1984 issue of the magazine. in the U.S., $30 in Canada; $50 U.S. for 12 Beefing up the bureaus. .40 issues sent via surface mail or $95 for 12 issues Bruce Abrahams, president of Comstar Skills for TOP SECRET® agents sent via air mail to any other country. All Enterprises, brought this fact to our atten- subscription payments must be in advance, and tion after he (and, unfortunately, lots of Learn magic by the month . .42 should be sent to Dragon Publishing, P.O. Box other people) saw Mikes article. The start- DRAGONQUEST game variant 72089, Chicago IL 60690. up of the game was delayed, which was the A limited quantity of certain back issues of basis for Mikes comment that he looked What is a monster worth? . .48 DRAGON Magazine can be purchased from the Dissecting the x.p. value system Dungeon Hobby Shop. (See the list of available forward to playing in the game if and issues printed elsewhere in each magazine.) Pay- when it is ready. By the time the article Dunkle Zee . .54 ment in advance by check or money order must came out, the game was up and running, A story that sails right along accompany all orders. Payments cannot be made through a credit card, and orders cannot be taken and according to Bruce it had been operat- Monster in the Middle. .83 nor merchandise reserved by telephone. Neither ing since February. In his letter to me, an individual customer nor an institution can be Bruce pointed out that the outdated news A really fantastic cross word puzzle billed for a subscription order or a back-issue purchase unless prior arrangements are made. had confused a lot of people, who had seen Index to advertisers . .92 advertisements for the game in other maga- The issue of expiration for each subscription is zines and understandably were bewildered printed on the mailing label for each subscribers copy of the magazine. Changes of address for the about what was going on. He asked for a delivery of subscription copies must be received clarification of the matter, which I hope REGULAR OFFERINGS at least six weeks prior to the effective date of the this piece of writing has provided. change in order to insure uninterrupted delivery. The responsibility for delaying the publi- Out on a Limb . 3 All material published in DRAGON cation of Mikes article is ours. But we Letters and answers Magazine becomes the exclusive property of the committed an even greater mistake by publisher upon publication, unless special ar- The forum . 6 rangements to the contrary are made prior to printing the if and when statement with- Opinions and observations publication. DRAGON Magazine welcomes out checking to find out if it was still accu- unsolicited submissions of written material and rate. I hope Comstar Enterprises hasnt Gods of the Suel pantheon. .20 artwork; however, no responsibility for such sub- suffered any irreparable damage because of missions can be assumed by the publisher in any Part 4: Pyremius, Beltar, and Llerg event. Any submission which is accompanied by our error, and I hope well never let old a self-addressed, stamped envelope of sufficient information creep into our pages again. The ARES Section. .63 size will be returned if it cannot be published. 16 pages of SF gaming articles DRAGON is a registered trademark for Gamers Guide . .80 Dragon Publishings monthly adventure playing aid. All rights on the contents of this publication Convention calendar . .82 are reserved, and nothing may be reproduced from it in whole or in part without first obtaining permission in writing from the publisher. Dragon Mirth ..................... .84 Copyright ©1984 TSR, Inc. Wormy . 86 Second-class postage paid at Lake Geneva, Wis., and additional mailing offices. Snarfquest ........................ .89 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Dragon Publishing, P.O. Box 110, Lake Geneva WI 53147, USPS 318-790, ISSN 0279-6848. DRAGON, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, D&D, AD&D, TOP SECRET, BOOT HILL, and GAMMA WORLD are registered trademarks owned by TSR, Inc. designates other trademarks owned by TSR, Inc., unless otherwise indicated. 2 SEPTEMBER 1984 ssue #61 was the last time we published a Dragons Bestiary column, which had been our every-issue vehicle for dishing out new monsters contributed by our readers. We abandoned our must run a monster in every issue approach after that and a lot of you have told us since then that you want the Bestiary back. Well, we havent done that, but weve put together something thats a lot better than the next best thing. In the center 20 surface level map did not reproduce well. I can pages of this 112-page issue is the Creature We cant re-cover only see 12 barrels indicated by the tiny unla- Catalog, a collection of 29 reader-submitted belled specks. There should be a total of 20 monsters that should whet the appetites of Dear Dragon, barrels. One barrel should stand diagonally three those of you whove been asking, Wheres Over the years of reading DRAGON, Ive squares from each corner of the main complex. the beast? for the last 2½ years. been pleased to see such a high degree of excel- The other four barrels not shown should stand 30 lence in the cover art for the magazine. What I feet away from the main complex between Quon- We expect the Creature Catalog to be would like to see is an opportunity, once a year, to set huts numbers 2 and 3, 6 and 7, 10 and 11, popular. We expect some of you to write up purchase a selection of the most popular covers and 14 and 15. and send in your new monster creations for the year. The covers offered would be decided For those agents who can afford their own after seeing it. And if those two expectations by a once yearly mini-survey to find out what equipment, I offer the following prices: inexpen- come to pass, well plan on putting out covers are the favorites of the readers. Why dont sive parka, $111; moderately priced parka, $333; other editions of the Catalog in the months you ask your readers if they would like this? I expensive parka, $1000; custom-fit parka, $3000; and years to come. know it would be complicated, but I think it space suit, $9000. Speaking of popular, this issues cover art would be worth it. I would like to acknowledge the original White- has probably knocked your socks off al- David Heys out playtesters: Mark Elliott, Chris Johansen, Scarborough, Ont., Canada Eric Nelson, Scott Nelson, and Mark Ryerson. ready. For those of you whove been buried Initial development and title credit should go to under a mound of dice for the last six Wed like to be able to offer copies of our cover James Pong Thompson. months, Check is the third and final art for sale, for two pretty obvious reasons: The Merle M. Rasmussen element in the series of chess-oriented fan- artwork is good stuff, and we could probably Huxley, Iowa tasy paintings from Denis Beauvais.
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