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. 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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.