dragon magazine số 107

[...]... with which to defeat the dragon Gloroc, who threatens to conquer and destroy their homeland on the shores of the Dragon Sea Generations of intrigue lie behind the quest Alemar and Elenya are lineal descendants of the legendary Alemar Dragonslayer, the wizard, inventor, and founder of a line of kings Gloroc is of longer-lived stock; he is the son of Faroc and Triss, the mated dragons slain by the first... with greater detail in combat mechanics and with player-character magic.) In presentation, Pendragon is attractive and pleasurable reading The Pendragon boxed set is an excellent value, certainly one of the most important RPG releases of 1985, and belongs on every serious fantasy role-playing gamer’s shelf DRAGON 27 Harn was just the start A look at what Columbia Games has done lately Game accessory... and hackand-slash There is no player-character magic in Pendragon, period All the magic is in the hands of NPCs like Merlin and Morgan Le Fay This will be eminently sensible to anyone with any familiarity with the Arthurian tales, but it is sufficiently unlike other fantasy RPGs to deserve specific mention There is no lack of combat in Pendragon — indeed, heroic combat in battles, tournaments, and... of Arthurian romance and adventure Combat may still be the central element of dramatic conflict in Pendragon, but other conflicts — particularly the dilemmas posed by internal conflicts of values within a character or conflicts between individuals over differing values — receive more attention in Pendragon than in any other role-playing game Many who enjoy detailed characterization, lots of dialog,... passion — for example, in order to betray one’s lord or family — the GM may require the player to Just lovely Tom Sullivan’s cover illustration of the boxed Pendragon is colorful but richly detailed, tasteful, and dignified The cover of The Pendragon Campaign by the same artist is less satisfying — the texture of the canvas is evident, and the lack of detail in close-up seems crude compared to the box... Arthurian Britain — well, gee, it’s just real pretty The Pendragon boxed game (retail price $19) itself contains an 88-page Player’s Handbook, a 16-page Gamemaster’s Handbook, complete character sheet for most of the important Arthurian NPCs, play aids (including a combat summary, reference tables, and blank character sheets), and dice The Pendragon Campaign ($10) is a 74-page booklet containing detailed... Arthurian or high fantasy adventures, but anyone interested in an Arthurian campaign had better buy the supplement Evaluation In campaign background, Pendragon’s Arthurian matter and its masterful treatment commends itself highly In mechanics, Pendragon has attractively simple and streamlined versions of conventional RPG combat mechanics while offering innovative mechanics supporting role-playing and... things don’t go right and your players threaten to set fire to the map of your campaign world, it might be good to have some charisma to fall back on Pendragon: Arthur would approve Game review by Ken Rolston In subject, mechanics, and presentation, Pendragon is the best designed, most attractive, and most effective traditional roleplaying game I have ever seen The process of playing the game, from the... Pass Columbia Games Inc has not rested on its laurels since releasing the Harn regional module in 1983 That module, only a small part of Columbia’s world of Ketheira, was reviewed in issue #77 of DRAGON Magazine The task of this review is to bring you up to date on what the sages at Columbia Games have been up to since then Covered herein are the Cities of Harn supplement, an overview of Encyclopedia... given credit for the tale’s historical background, but Dave Smeds 0-441-77557-8 Ace $2.95 Dragons are usually associated with desert nomads The former are normally creatures of sky and cavern, water and woodland and heath, whether in the Orient or in the Western world The Sorcery Within, however, is a tale about a dragon and just such wanderers Surprisingly enough, the concept works Dave Smeds does a . the new magazine. He has been busy making plans, or at least formulating proposals, for what hed like the new magazine to contain and how he wants to operate. Within the next few issues of DRAGON Magazine, . 5 SF-20540, Turku 54 Finland DRAGON Magazine (ISSN 0279-6848) is published monthly by TSR, Inc. The mailing address for all material except subscription orders is DRAGON Magazine, P.O. Box 110, Lake. material published in DRAGON Magazine becomes the exclusive property of the publisher, unless special arrangements to the contrary are made prior to publication. DRAGON Magazine welcomes unsolicited