Dragon mag - December 1982

[Quasqueton]

Dragon magazine December 1982.

What we were reading about AD&D 20 years ago.

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SPECIAL ATTRACTION

Weather in the World of Greyhawk
- A climate for campaigning
[by David Axler - includes 6-panel card fold-out that can be used as a DM screen]


OTHER FEATURES

Be a two-fisted fighter
- Using weapons in both hands
[by Roger Moore - rules for using a weapon in both hands]

GEN CON Miniature Open Winners
[by Kim Eastland]

Up, up and away
- The DAWN PATROL game
[by Jim Quinn]

Beg, borrow, or steal?
- Variant for Barbarian Prince
[by Glenn Rahman]

Thrills and Chills
- Ice Age adventuring
[by Arthur Collins]

Castles by Carroll
- First in a series
[by Mike Carroll - Neuschwanstein]

What's in the water
- Aquatic encounter tables
[by Mark S. Harcourt]

Gaming by mail
- The good & bad of PBM
[by Michael Gray]

You've always got a chance
- New use for ability scores
[by Katherine Kerr - use ability scores to determine success or failure]


REGULAR OFFERINGS

Out on a Limb
- Letters from readers

Featured Creatures
- More monsters from EGG
[by E. Gary Gygax - Ascomoid, Basidirond, Phycomid]

From the Sorceror's Scroll
- New spells for high-level M-Us
[by E. Gary Gygax - Avoidance, Dismissal, Dolor, Fabricate, Leomund's Lamentable Belabourment, Sending, Chain Lightning, Contingency, Ensnarement, Eyebite, Mordenkainen's Lucubration, Transmute Water to Dust, Banishment, Forcecage, Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion, Sequester, Teleport Without Error, Torment, Truename, Volley, Binding, Demand, Otiluke's Telekinetic Sphere, Sink, Crystalbrittle, Energy Drain, Modenkainen's Disjunction, Succor]

Leomund's Tiny Hut
- The cloistered cleric
[by Lenard Lakofka - the non-adventuring cleric]

Deities & Demigods of Greyhawk
[by E. Gary Gygax - Celestian (AC: -5, HP: 242), Fharlanghn (AC: -6, HP: 262), Ehlonna (AC: -6, HP: 180), Pholtus (AC: -5, HP: 286), Trithereon (AC: -4, HP: 163)]

Dragon's Augury
- Game reviews
[by Robert Plamondon - "High Fantasy"; by Ken Rolston - "Borderlands"; by Tony Watson - "Elric"]

Convention schedule

Off the Shelf
- Books make good gifts
[by C. J. Henderson - reviews of several books]

Wormy

What's New

Dragon Mirth


Extras: The Dragon Publishing Module Design Competition

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I thought this might prompt some interesting discussion.

Quasqueton

 

[Eternalknight]

What issue is this?

 

[herald]

I had that issue.

It's suprising what you can remember sometimes.

 

[Fast Learner]

I remember buying it off of my local hobby shop's shelf, just a day or two after it came out.

Ah, memories.

 

[Eridanis]

Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane (I didn't start collecting DRAGON until issue #90, but read my friends' copies). I remember Arthur Collins wrote some very good articles, but that he passed away in the mid-80s. Do I rememer that correctly?

 

[King_Stannis]

It just brings into stark comparison how jam-packed those early editions were - full of stuff that many could use - and how narrow and "hit or miss" the current issues of "Dragon" are.

At least "Dungeon" has retained, and in many ways exceeded, its former utility.

 

[A2Z]

Cool idea! You going to do this every month?

 

[Tyler Do'Urden]

Yeah... I've quit buying Dragon, but I continue to buy Dungeon religiously. I didn't like the new look at first, but it grew on me... and the material just keeps getting better and better.

 

[Enkhidu]

Heck, we used the "Be a Two Fisted Fighter" rules from that issue for years.

 

[jasamcarl]

It just brings into stark comparison how jam-packed those early editions were - full of stuff that many could use - and how narrow and "hit or miss" the current issues of "Dragon" are.

At least "Dungeon" has retained, and in many ways exceeded, its former utility.

Really? It looks like the article is 'jam-packed' with things the current core rules cover already. Could it be that this view of earlier Dragon as having more utility than recent issues derives from the fact that the system those issues were supporting was dodgier and more haphazard, and thus had more holes to fill in general? Just wondering...