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[...]... can get a lot of people convincing themselves that the other race’s longevity is an artificial accomplishment that could be shared with humanity if the other race were willing Better- The address of DRAGON Magazine is P.O Box 110, Lake Geneva WI 53147, and that’s all you need to make sure your letter gets here But you can help us serve you more quickly by adding a line at the top of the address to tell... Conquest, PBI Software (Macintosh) If you have any questions or comments you’d like to share with us, you can write to us directly at 179 Pebble Place, San Ramon CA 94583 Or, you can address comments to DRAGON Magazine, P.O Box 110, Lake Geneva WI 53147 Either way, your thoughts will be read and respected Thanks for joining us, and play on! by Ed Greenwood I’ve recently learned that my friend, Elminster... guarded by the Patrol would be surrounded by scatterings of sand or sawdust, over which no one could walk without leaving conspicuous footprints Sentry dogs would be trained to give an alarm whenever they DRAGON 19 smelled a body scent from a place where they could not see anyone Human Patrol members would practice hurling paint and other liquids that would stick to an offender and render him visible The... within the game world will surely be affected by it, especially in a campaign where adventurers frequently tame or subdue monsters If some high-level lord rides into town on the back of his pet copper dragon, will his acid-breathing steed leave behind corrosive droppings that eat foot-deep holes into the pavement? Or, if he has a rust monster on a leash, even if it is kept from eating the townsfolk’s... halflings, of course, would resent this Since resentment easily bursts the barriers of rationality, they might attribute the most outlandishly wicked motives to the well-meaning rulers Halflings with DRAGON 21 sides were evil-aligned, they would simply force their women into submission — or, if the women had the means to prevent this, the fighters would ignore them and continue their war to a finish,... characteristics FREQUENCY: The frequency given is for the animal in its most characteristic habitat; elsewhere, it may be rarer or entirely absent Larger animals within a classification are usually less comDRAGON 11 mon, but no specific guideline is given since DMs usually choose a level of challenge according to the powers of the player characters encountering the animals NUMBER APPEARING: As stated in... conflict with the normal daytime activities (such as class instruction and laboratory work) for which the computer was originally intended At this point in computer-game development, the power of the DRAGON 23 mainframe computer was required to master the coding Microcomputers were just making their appearance, and did not possess the speed or memory requirements necessary to allow for the transfer,... relatively complex adventure games Early developers such as Ken and Roberta Williams of Sierra On-Line Systems, Scott Adams of Adventure International, and Robert Hardy of Synergistic Software, and early magazines such as SoftSide (edited by Mark Pelczarski and Dave Albert) began to imbue the burgeoning number of computerphiles with a craving for micro adventure games The early titles, such as Beneath... the character explores it To the immediate left of this window is a message display that gives the character’s status (using a bar-graph representation instead of numbers) and offers information rele- DRAGON 25 vant to what has just happened (the value of treasure found, the outcome of combat, the nature of found objects, and so forth) Directly above the information window is the Rogue window, a large... castles to finish the adventure However, it seems that the more time one invests in the game, the better it gets; an experienced and accomplished party can expect to encounter horrific, spell-casting dragons as well as wizards, conjurers, and others of that ilk along the way Based on brief looks, we continue to be impressed with some other offerings that may get their share of the limelight in columns . ARAMCO Dhahran, Saudi Arabia DRAGON Magazine (ISSN 0279-6648) is published monthly by TSR, Inc. The mailing address for all material except subscription orders is DRAGON Magazine, PO. 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 submissions. run and youll be willing to keep spending your well-deserved money on our well- preserved magazine. DRAGON 3 The World Gamers Guide If you live outside the continental SF = STAR FRONTIERS® game;

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