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D RAGON 1

SPECIAL ATTRACTION

48 UNEARTHED ARCANA additions and corrections

New pieces of type for those who have the book

Publisher

Mike Cook

Editor-in-Chief

Kim Mohan

Editorial staff

Patrick Lucien Price

Roger Moore

Art director and graphics

Roger Raupp

Subscriptions

Georgia Moore

Advertising

Mary Parkinson

Contributing editors

Ed Greenwood

Katharine Kerr

This issues contributing artists

Robert Pritchard

Larry Elmore

Bob Maurus

Roger Raupp

Tom Centola

Marvel Bullpen

David Trampier

Ted Goff

Joseph Pillsbury

OTHER FEATURES

The future of the game Gary Gygax

How well tackle the task of a Second Edition AD&D® game

Arcana update, part 1 Kim Mohan

Explanations, answers, and some new rules

All about Krynns gnomes Roger E. Moore

Finishing our series on the demi-humans of the DRAGONLANCE world

A dozen domestic dogs Stephen Inniss

Twelve ways to classify mans best friend

The role of books John C. Bunnell

Reviews of game-related fantasy and SF literature

The Centaur Papers Stephen Inniss and Kelly Adams

Everything two authors could think of about the horse-folk

The Wages of Stress Christopher Gilbert

How to handle obnoxious people and make it pay

DEPARTMENTS

Letters

World Gamers Guide

88 Convention calendar

86 Gamers Guide

89 Wormy

93 Dragonmirth

94 Snarfquest

The forum

COVER

Robert Pritchards first contribution to our cover is an interesting piece of artwork

and thats always the main factor in deciding whether or not to accept a painting to

use. But Roberts choice of a title didnt hurt a bit. The name of the painting, of

course, is Birth of the Blues.

2 N OVEMBER 1985

One monster

we cant defeat

Copy service

Dear Editor,

Im a bit confused. In answer to George

Embleys question (issue #101) as to whether or

not he could get a copy of the astral article in

issue #67, you said no, unless it was published in

a future Best of DRAGON.

However, in issue #83 you said it was possible

to order copies of articles not reprinted in the

Best of DRAGON series or not still available as

back issues. I checked the list of issues available

in #101, and issue #67 wasnt listed as available.

Why couldnt Mr. Embley order the article from

DRAGON Magazine, simply paying the price

stated in issue #83? Or is this service no longer

available?

Why is the service only available to RPGA

members? Because we don’t have enough time or

people to handle requests from the entire reader-

ship of the magazine. Because Penny is the only

person who deals with the requests, and also

happens to be the head of the RPGA Network

organization. And because RPGA members

deserve some special treatment in return for their

membership fees. If you’d like to find out about

more ways in which RPGA members get special

treatment, write to the above address for mem-

bership information. — KM

No matter how strong you are, you cant

keep it from attacking you again and again.

No magic item has any effect on it. No

matter how good your armor class is, it

scores a hit sooner or later and

hits, it hits

when it

everybody.

The monster goes by many names. Well

call it Increasing Costs but dont expect

to find it under I in any of the rule

books. It does show up in a book, but its

the kind used by accountants, not gamers.

Okay, enough of the cute lead-in. What

Im edging toward telling you is this: Prices

are going up. Effective on Feb. 1, 1986, all

new TSR products will cost more than they

would under our existing (soon to be

former) price structure. Many existing

products, including DRAGON® Magazine,

will also carry higher price tags.

The magazines single-copy price will be

$3.50 starting with the February issue

(#106). The AD&D rule books and other

products that now cost $12.00 or $13.50 will

become $15.00 items. Standard-sized mod-

ules will be $8.00 instead of $6.00, and

special, larger modules will be $12.00 or

$15.00, depending on the page count and

number of components in the product.

Practically every other item thats produced

or published by TSR, Inc., will also go up

in price.

Im not going to waste any precious space

with verbal contortions intended to con-

vince you that higher prices are a Good

Thing. Youre all intelligent enough to

realize why price increases are occasionally

necessary and occasionally is the right

word here. The cover price of the magazine

has been $3.00 ever since issue #37, five

and a half years ago. The price of the

AD&D rule books has not gone up since

those books were first published. But now

the time has finally come when we cannot

continue to absorb all of the Increasing

Costs that continually attack companies in

the publishing business. We have to ask you

to absorb part of the blow for us thats

what friends are for, right?

We cant stop the monster from getting in

its licks, but we can keep you from being hit

while youre surprised, Armed with this bit

of advance warning, you still have several

weeks to pick up existing products at their

current prices, and I hope lots of you do

just that. Bad news is never easy to take, or

to deliver, but we figured youd rather know

about it now than find out the hard way on

the first of February.

Flail followup

Chad P. Culotta

Shreveport, La.

Dear Dragon,

In the clerical spell holy flail (issue #100), it

states that any non-bladed weapon is trans-

formed by the spell into a magical flail. Does this

include any weapon that is much larger than a

flail that is non-bladed like a javelin, staff, spear,

or even a lance? Does it work on magical non-

bladed weapons or not?

If the answer to the preceding question is yes,

can the spell be used to an advantage? For in-

stance, if a cleric fights someone who is using a

+ 5 lance, cant he cast the spell to transform the

lance into the less powerful holy flail? Does the

weapon transformed by the spell have to be listed

as a weapon, or can anything that can be used as

a weapon (rock, bottle, etc.) be transformed?

Joey Garcia

Bronx. N.Y.

I did speak a little hastily in issue #101. I

thought the photocopying service offered by TSR

had been discontinued (it has been a long time

since issue #83), but I was only partially right

about that. Penny Petticord, the Coordinator of

the RPGA™ Network, informs me that the service

is still available — but only to members of the

RPGA Network.

If you’re a member, you can order photocopies

of any article from an out-of-print issue of

DRAGON Magazine, as long as the article does

NOT fall into one of these categories: 1) It has

been reprinted in a Best of DRAGON® Maga-

zine anthology; 2) It was written by Gary Gygax;

3) It is a work of fiction; or 4) It is an article that

does not specifically pertain to a TSR® game.

The reason for restriction 1 should be obvious:

Why would you want to pay for one article when

you can buy it, plus lots of others, for the same or

less money? The reason for restrictions 2 through

4 is that the authors of those articles have re-

tained ownership of the copyright to their materi-

als, and as such we are not authorized to

distribute copies. For the same reason, we cannot

and will not honor requests to photocopy art.

The cost of the service depends on what you

want: $4.00 for a module from the center of the

magazine, $2.50 for any single article, or $1.00

for any single new monster or magic item —

regardless of how many pages the module, ar-

ticle, or monster takes up. The postage and

handling charge is $2.00 for an order of $15.00 or

less, plus $1.00 for each $10.00 (or portion

thereof beyond that: $3.00 for an order of $15.50

through $25.00, $4.00 for an order of $25.50

through $35, and so on. (Don’t worry if you

ordered some copies recently under the previous

pricing structure; those prices will be honored

until after this magazine is distributed.)

Requests should be sent to RPGA™ Network,

P.O. Box 509, Lake Geneva WI 53147, along

with a check or money order payable to the

RPGA Network. You must be an RPGA member

to qualify, and must include your membership

number in your order. Any requests from non-

members will be returned. Penny tries to fill

requests within 6 weeks of the time they are

received, but don’t panic if it runs a little longer

than that.

Instead of using the term “non-bladed

weapon,” we should have specified that the spell

only works on weapons usable by a cleric. That

rules out everything except a club, flail, hammer,

mace, staff. lasso, sap, or staff sling — no lances,

spears, rocks or bottles allowed.

The spell will not fail to function when it’s cast

upon a magic weapon, but it won’t offset or

reduce any powers the magic weapon already

had. However, the spell will bestow upon the

weapon any special powers that are part of the

magic. If it’s used on a horsemans mace + 4, for

instance, the weapon is still + 4 to hit and on

damage, and for the duration of the spell the

mace will do extra damage to undead and “any

creature of a greatly different alignment than that

of the cleric,” as it says in the text. This extra

damage is 1 point per level of the cleric who cast

the spell, not per level of the character wielding

the weapon — and note that the extra damage

only applies when the magicked weapon is

wielded by a cleric. Thus, it’s pointless to cast the

spell on a enemy’s weapon — and it’s downright

dumb to even try doing it if the enemy is a cleric

“of a greatly different alignment.” — KM

Too expensive?

Dear Dragon,

I have a question about the automaton in

Creature Catalog III (issue #101). Why is the cost

D RAGON

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