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DRAGON Magazine (ISSN 0279-6848) Is Pub- Has Assumed the Presidency of SPI D RAGON 1 Vol.VI,No.11 May 1982 Publisher. Jake Jaquet Editor-in-Chief. Kim Mohan Editorial staff . Bryce Knorr We have a couple of pieces of informa- George has already lined up new fic- Marilyn Mays tion to pass along this month, which may tion from Robert Silverberg, Barry Malz- Gali Sanchez not be “news” by the time you read this, berg, Gene Wolfe, Richard Lupoff, Ron Sales. Debbie Chiusano but which certainly falls within our re- Circulation . Corey Koebernick Goulart, Robert Adams, Lisa Tuttle, Office staff . Cherie Knull sponsibility to report in as accurate and George R.R. Martin, and Jack William- Roger Raupp timely a fashion as possible. son; a regular column by Silverberg; in- Contributing editors. Roger Moore In a press release dated March 31, terviews with R. A. Lafferty and A. Bert- Ed Greenwood Simulations Publications, Incorporated ram Chandler . and a few surprises. (SPI) announced it had reached an agree- There wasn’t time to get a subscription This issue’s contributing artists: ment with TSR Hobbies, Inc., whereby ad for AMAZING into this month’s issue Susan Collins Harry Quinn TSR had initiated a legal and economic of DRAGON™ Magazine, but those of Steve Peregrine Jack Crane chain of events to purchase SPI. As part you who just can’t wait may subscribe at Roger Raupp Mary Hanson- of the agreement, TSR will undertake the Bruce Whitefield Roberts the rate of $9 for six issues or $16 for Paul Sonju Phil Foglio distribution of SPI products in the Uni- twelve issues. AMAZING is currently Jim Holloway Dave Trampier ted States and Canada. Kevin B. Blume, published quarterly, but we’ll be going to TSR Hobbies’ Chief Operating Officer, bi-monthly soon, and subscriptions will DRAGON Magazine (ISSN 0279-6848) is pub- has assumed the presidency of SPI. be adjusted accordingly. Subscription lished monthly for a subscription price of $24 per year by Dragon Publishing, a division of TSR “We believe that SPI has a potentially orders should be made payable to Drag- Hobbies, Inc., P.O. Box 110, Lake Geneva WI strong line of products,” said Blume in a on Publishing and mailed to AMAZING 53147. news release from TSR Hobbies, “which, Science Fiction Stories, P.O. Box 110, DRAGON Magazine is available at hundreds when efficiently marketed and distribut- Lake Geneva WI 53147. of hobby stores and bookstores throughout the ed, will be profitable and and hopefully United States and Canada, and through a limit- *** ed number of overseas outlets. Subscription will reverse SPl’s current deficit position.” rates are as follows, with all payments to be Christopher Wagner, outgoing presi- made in advance: $24 for 12 issues sent to a U.S. or Canadian address; $50 U.S. for 12 issues sent dent of SPI, said, “This deal will work Finally, while the snow is still knee- via surface mail or $95 for 12 issues sent via air because the capabilities of the two com- deep here in Wisconsin in early April, it’s mail to any other country. panies are highly complementary. SPI time to start thinking about the summer A limited quantity of certain back issues of can make the products and TSR can sell convention season. The GEN CON® East DRAGON Magazine can be purchased directly them.” Wagner is leaving SPI after one II Convention in June at Widener Col- from the publisher by sending the cover price plus $1.50 postage and handling for each issue and a half years in the position to resume lege in Chester, Pa., will be our first ap- ordered. Payment in advance by check or mo- his consulting business. pearance of the season. The convention ney order must accompany all orders. Payments cannot be made through a credit card, and Executive Vice President Redmond Si- will mark the premiere of our 1983 D&D® orders cannot be taken nor merchandise re- monsen and Vice President Brad Hessel calendar. Not only will you be able to see served by telephone. Neither an individual cus- of SPI issued a joint statement which tomer nor an institution can be billed for a sub- (perchance, to purchase?) a copy, you’ll scription order or back-issue purchase unless said in part, “We are pleased to an- also be able to meet Tim Hildebrandt, prior arrangements are made. nounce that SPI and TSR Hobbies have our special guest and the creator of the The issue of expiration for each subscription reached an accord that is in the best in- artwork for the calendar. is printed on the mailing label for each sub- terest of the corporation, our employees, REALMS OF WONDER, the calendar’s scriber’s copy of the magazine. Changes of ad- dress for the delivery of subscriptions must be our vendors, and most importantly our title, may give you a sense of what you’ll received at least 30 days prior to the effective customers.” be seeing, but rather than try to describe date of the change in order to insure uninter- Tim’s fantastic paintings, we’ll just ask rupted delivery. * * * you to make a point of stopping by our All material published in DRAGON Magazine booth at the show if you can. We think becomes the exclusive property of the publisher upon publication, unless special arrangements And as long as we’re reporting an- you’ll agree that his work for REALMS to the contrary are made prior to publication. nouncements: Dragon Publishing, as a OF WONDER is every bit as good (dare DRAGON Magazine welcomes unsolicited sub- missions of written material and artwork; how- division of TSR Hobbies, Inc., has come we suggest better?) as the work he’s ever, no responsibility for such submissions can to an agreement with Arthur Bernhard, done in the past. be assumed by the publisher in any event. Any submission which is accompanied by a self- President of the Ultimate Publishing If the east coast is too far to go, Tim addressed, stamped envelope of sufficient size Company, Inc., to purchase Ultimate’s will also be our guest at the GEN CON will be returned to the contributor if it cannot be publication, AMAZING™ science fiction XV Convention in August at the Universi- published. stories. Started in 1926 by Hugo Gerns- ty of Wisconsin-Parkside. And if you DRAGON™ is a trademark for Dragon Publish- back, the “father” of modern science fic- can’t get to either place, look for REALMS ing’s monthly adventure playing aid. All rights on the contents of this publication are reserved, tion, AMAZING is the oldest and long- OF WONDER in a store near you this and nothing may be reproduced from it in whole est-running science fiction periodical in summer. The days-and-dates part is no or in part without prior permission in writing from the publisher. Copyright ©1982 by TSR the world. good until January, but the paintings are Hobbies, Inc. Joining the Dragon Publishing staff as timeless. editor of AMAZING is George Scithers, a Second-class postage paid at Lake Geneva, two-time winner of the Hugo award as Wis., and additional mailing offices. best science-fiction editor, and past edi- POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Dragon Publishing, P.O. Box 110, Lake Geneva tor of Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction WI 53147. ISSN 0279-6848. Stories magazine. 2 MAY 1982 on’t let the guy on the cover give you too much heat and “The Gods of the Gnomes” drives the point home even — he just does this sort of thing on weekends to more firmly. pick up a little extra money. The real wizards are the The next time your group wants to play “Cowboys and Indi- writers and artists who filled up the inside of this ans,” send in the “Little People of the Iroquois,” portrayed in magazine, from EGG to Tramp and everyone in Conrad Froehlich’s article. These legendary elf-like creatures between. The cover painting is the creation of Susan Collins, should fit especially well in a campaign one using an American whose work also appeared on the outside of issue #51. Indian mythos. If you feel the same way, fine. If you don’t, then The center 12 pages of this month’s issue is taken up by you can Sioux us. Quest for the Midas Orb, an adventure created by Jennie Good For the second issue in a row, we’re able to give guidance to which was, ahem, good enough to win third place in the AD&D™ TOP SECRET® agents direct from E. Gary Gygax. New rules section of International Dungeon Design Contest II. for areas of Special Knowledge, plus a completely detailed new In the leadoff position, following two pages of “Out on a bureau for infiltrators, are featured in the column that starts on Limb” letters, is the third and last installment of cantrips, page 60. brought to you From the Sorceror’s Scroll by E. Gary Gygax. The latest edition of “Giants in the Earth” brings forth three These morsels of magic for illusionists are, like the magic-user more characters from the pages of fantasy literature, including cantrips that preceded them, slated for inclusion in an upcom- everybody’s favorite chauvinist, Tarl Cabot. A quartet of new ing official volume of new AD&D™ rules. And, as the Sorceror critters are featured in “Dragon’s Bestiary” but that’s nothing himself is wont to say, you Gentle Readers saw it here first. compared to the eighty monsters portrayed in living (in most We’ve looked at combat from one extreme to the other, in the cases) color on pages 52 and 53.
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