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[...]... only as long as the casting time of the spell After casting a spell, the mage can move during the remainder of the round For example, a fireball takes three segments; therefore, the mage casting it could DRAGON 9 have seven segments worth of movement after casting the spell See page 102 of the Players Handbook for per-segment movement rates Is it possible for a character to leave a melee without exposing... Illithid homeworlds Any commotion is likely to attract a number of predators, so only the most formidable creatures attempt to graze on a patch of shriekers Illithidae Illustrations by Thomas Baxa The Dragon s Bestiary All life crawls where mind flayers rule by Stephen Inniss The homeworlds of the Illithids (mind flayers) and the depths of the Earth most thoroughly colonized by the Illithids, as described... reasons not entirely clear, cessirids prefer intelligent creatures for larval food Thanks to millenia of training and breeding, the dogs of the githyanki (kaoulgrim, from “Hounds of Space and Darkness,” in DRAGON issue # 117) and the cessirids are fanatic enemies, and will fight one another regardless of other constraints (even magical charms) Szarkel, the dogs of the githzerai (from the same article and... Kigrids may be found singly or in small groups They are always hungry and will attack and eat any vulnerable creature A kigrid is a stocky, four-legged creature with a short tail, powerfully built legs, a DRAGON 15 Cessirids Illithids do, by destroying the brains of other creatures and planting their larvae to grow in the empty skulls Wild populations of saltors are more variable than those controlled by... convention before, please check out the Convention Calendar feature in this issue for the game convention nearest you Take some of your own gaming friends along, too — and make it an experience to remember DRAGON 17 Illustrations by Janet Aulisio 18 OCTOBER 1989 The Sunset World In the realm of the mind flayers by Stephen Inniss From the opening address of the CXIXth annual meeting of the Imperial Association... region between the ice and the salty deserts consists of swamps or shallow lakes Deep bodies of water and mountains are rare Water is most often found in pools and seeps, and seldom in waterfalls or rapids DRAGON 19 This description will illustrate why the Illithids are found only in the underground regions of our world, where the light is dim at best and the air is often damp Ssirik Akuar’s dim, red sun... Adults have four limbs with four digits apiece Creatures of the Sunset World generally go through a grublike larval stage in which they have a variable number of limbs; these larvae almost invariably grow DRAGON 21 from eggs laid in corpses or masses of rotten vegetation, though there are also some more sophisticated adaptions as in the case of the Illithid The carrion crawler is an example of a form which... our outward faring, There is one matter I have left for the last, and for a purpose You will recall that we were encamped on a ruin There are many such on Ssirik Akuar, most of them Continued on page 65 DRAGON 25 Vampire CLIMATE/TERRAIN: FREQUENCY: ORGANIZATION: ACTIVITY CYCLE: DIET: INTELLIGENCE: TREASURE: ALIGNMENT: NO APPEARING: ARMOR CLASS: MOVEMENT: HIT DICE: THAC0: NO OF ATTACKS: DAMAGE/ATTACK:... regardless of the vampire’s original religious background Vampires which are splashed with a vial of holy water or struck with lawful good holy symbols are burned by them, suffering 2-7 points of damage DRAGON 29 Vampire Just as vampires can be kept at bay, so too can they be slain by those who have the knowledge to do so Any vampire which is exposed to direct sunlight is instantly rendered powerless... substitutions, and these books can be lost or stolen Ciphers, the true subject of cryptography, hide messages by rearranging or substituting words or characters according to a master plan understood by sender DRAGON 33 and receiver Thus, instead of several thousand code-words, sender and receiver only have to remember the plan—a much easier task A simple example of a cipher is a sentence in which each letter . the United States and Canada, write to: Letters, DRAGON ® Magazine, P.O. Box 111, Lake Geneva WI 53147, U.S.A. In Europe, write to: Letters, DRAGON Magazine, TSR Ltd., 120 Church End, Cherry Hinton,. items; Dragons of Flame, an action-arcade sequel to Heroes of the Lance, set in the DRAGONLANCE ® saga at Pax Tharkas; War of the Lance, a strategic fantasy war game about the DRAGONLANCE saga; DRAGONLANCE. allows a party to explore Krynn in the time following the DRAGONLANCE Legends trilogy; Dragonflight, a dragon- riding flight simulator for the DRAGONLANCE saga; and Dungeon Bash, a sequel to Azure