381. Various Authors - Dragon #97 (May 1985)
With a beautiful all-time classic painting by the great Robin Wood, who left us much too soon in 2021, this is one of my favourite Dragon covers, the detail of the reflection in each individual scale is particularly impressive. The interior of this issue isn't as great as the cover, but that is by itself worth the price of admission.
The editorial of this issue starts off by announcing an upcoming volume whose name is now a fixture of D&D, Unearthed Arcana, announced as a kind of a compilation of all the official material published up until now on the magazine, with expanded content, Kim Mohan announces that it is coming out sometime in June. We'll get there soon! Gygax gives us a column on how to calculate a God's power and how they work in the world of AD&D.
There are also articles on how to use improvised weapons, the Ecology of the Gorgon by Ed Greenwood, who also brings us another instalment in his Pages from the Mages series, where Elminster describes Spell Books of the Forgotten Realms, and we get advice on how to deal with games with a lot of players. Reviews, the Ares Sci-Fi gaming section, some fiction and the usual comics (Wormy and SnarfQuest) make up the rest of the issue.
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C.P. Cavafy (2013) Selected poems. Aiora Press, Athens, 104pp.
Leo Tolstoy (2009) The devil and other stories. Oxford University Press, Oxford, xxxv + 296pp.
John Steinbeck (2000) The pearl. Penguin Books, London, xxix + 91pp.
Nikos Kazantzakis (2008) Zorba the Greek. Faber and Faber, London, 335pp.
Patrick Rothfuss (2014) The slow regard of silent things. Gollancz, London, 159pp.
Ronald Hingley (1977) Russian writers and society in the nineteenth century. Second, revised edition, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, ix + 195pp.
Kurt Vonnegut (2000) Breakfast of champions. Vintage Books, London, 296pp.
Kurt Vonnegut (2009) Mother night. Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, New York, 268pp.
M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin (2016) The history of a town. Apollo, London, xxviii + 294pp.
Aksel Sandemose (1962) Felicias bryllup. Det Schønbergske Forlag, Copenhagen, 261pp.
Abdel Aziz Mahmoud (2016) Hvor taler du flot dansk! Politikens Forlag, Copenhagen, 197pp.
Dorthe Nors (2016) Kantslag. Samleren, Copenhagen, 147pp.
Franz Kafka (2000) The trial. Penguin Books, London, xvi + 178pp.
Poetry Society (2016) The wolves of normality. Foyle Young Poets of the Year Anthology, The Poetry Society, London, 32pp.
Hermann Hesse (2015) Peter Camenzind. Peter Owen, London, 174pp.
Søren Ulrik Thomsen (2011) Rystet spejl. Gyldendal, Copenhagen, 56pp.
Larrry Elmore (1987) SnarfQuest - the book. TSR, Cambridge, 142pp.
Viktor E. Frankl (2004) Man's search for meaning. Rider, London, 154pp.
Edward M. Forster (1986) A room with a view. Penguin Books, London, 256pp.
Oscar Wilde (2003) Complete short fiction. Penguin Books, London, xxxvi + 280pp.
Gabriel García Márquez (2014) Innocent Eréndira and other stories. Penguin Books, London, 183pp.
Erlend Loe (2013) Status. Gyldendal, Copenhagen, 144pp.
Karen Wynn Fonstad (2016) The atlas of Tolkien's Middle-earth. HarperCollinsPublishers, London, xii + 210pp.
Alice Munro (2010) Selected stories. Vintage Books, London, 412pp.
George Orwell (2013) Politics and the English language. Penguin Books, London, 24pp.
John Willams (2012) Stoner. Vintage Books, London, xvi + 288pp.
David Grossman (2017) A horse walks into a bar. Vintage, London, 198pp.
Carmen Boullosa (2016) Before. Deep Vellum Publishing, Dallas, 104pp.
Ivan Turgenev (2016) Smoke. Alma Classics, Richmond, xix + 230pp.
Arundhati Roy (2017) The ministry of utmost happiness. Penguin, Gurgaon, 445pp.
Aravind Adiga (2008) The white tiger. Atlantic Books, London, 321pp.
Neil Gaiman (2013) Neverwhere. Headline Publishing Group, London, 372pp.
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263. Various Authors - Dragon #80 (December 1983)
After the exceedingly long month of November 1983, where we had 6 books (four HeartQuests and two Endless Quests), four animated show episodes and the usual publications and modules, we come to the considerably shorter month of December which we start off with this issue of Dragon sporting a famous Clyde Caldwell cover. The cover shows us a sorceress but in tones of red and green so we don't forget that we are in December and the holidays are here.
Although the cover is really the highlight in this issue, there is still plenty of good stuff on the inside of the magazine, starting out with the Psychology of the Doppelganger article, and the usual articles covering the minutiae of D&D with subject like what the volume of gold coinage is. We already knew all about the weight, but now we get to find out how many coins are in a coffer as well as how different materials have different volumes and so on. "Fun" stuff.
Mike Beeman brings us a general interest article with tips on DMing, and Ed Greenwood gives us another d100 list of trinkets and treasures to spice up your adventure, some really good stuff here! The mini module is Barnacus: City in Peril for levels 1-5 and Len Lakofka brings us a bunch of alternative combat charts, thanks Len! As usual we finish with our usual comics pages with What's New by Phil Foglio, Wormy by Dave Trampier and SnarfQuest by Larry Elmore.
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Dragon 108 (April, 1986). Cover by Larry Elmore. Always thought this was meant to be Telerie from Elmore’s SnarfQuest comic strip, but upon closer look, this swordswoman is similar but distinct. Could be Tika from Dragonlance, too. It’s titled “Hidden Danger,” for good reason — it took me a minute to realize why (I was going to make a no pants/hypothermia joke, but then opted not to — are you proud of me?).
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