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I recently acquired Dragon Magazines #1 to #250. Frankly, the sheer volume of data is somewhat overwhelming. I was wondering if anybody had any favourite articles they would be willing to point me towards? Any specific suggestions would be helpful.
[i]It is a joyful thing indeed to hold intimate converse with a man after one’s own heart, chatting without reserve about things of interest or the fleeting topics of the world; but such, alas, are few and far between.[/i]
– Yoshida Kenko (1283-1350), [i]Tsurezure-Gusa[/i] (1340)
– Yoshida Kenko (1283-1350), [i]Tsurezure-Gusa[/i] (1340)
Tooo many...
Shadow of a Demon (short story) Gardner Fox, (14 Dra 2).
The Ninja -npc (7 Dra 16) (? Dra 30)
The Anti-paladin - npc (? Dra 39)
The Jester - npc (? Dra 60)
The bandit - npc (23 Dra 63)
For the Sake of Change - money (ancient, medieval, fantasy) (67 Dra 63)
Firearms - Ed Greenwood (24 Dra 60), A second Volley (33 Dra 70 )
Two fisted fighter - Roger Moore (7 Dra 68 )
The Cloistered Cleric - npc (30 Dra 68 )
The Real Barbarians (24 Dra 72 )
The Duelist - npc (6 Dra 73 )
The bureaucrat - npc (8 Dra 74 )
The Death Master - npc (? Dra 78 )
The Nine Hells - Ed Greenwood (23 Dra 76 )
Treasures Rare and Wonderous - Ed Greenwood (30 Dra 80)
Living in a material world (spell components) (58 Dra 81)
The Ruins of Andril - (adventure - ancient world feel set in the Sea of
Dust) (47 Dra 81).
The Dancing Hut - Roger Moore (Baba Yaga - adventure, death awaits)
(31 Dra 83)
The More the Merrier (clerics and conversion) (12 Dra 92)
Let the Horse buyer beware (different qualities of horses) (26 Dra 92)
The Witch (npc class) revised and expanded (9 Dra 114)
Surely You Joust! - (additional mechanics in the joust) (22 Dra 118)
The Fighting Cirlce, gladitorial combat (some interesting ideas) (8 Dra 118)
Is there a doctor in the forest (medieval surgery) (18 Dra 119)
The High Seas (expanded interpretation of ships and naval combat in AD&D) (10 Dra 116).
Here are some more by article title (as they are xeroxed copies), if you have the CD collection of these they will not be hard to find:
"Hello? Your Majesty" (communication in history and fantasy) great article!
Gypsies (an older dragon)
The Druids (one of the older dragons)
On Becoming a Great Druid, rites of ascension druidic circles (22 Dra 119)
The First Assassins (older dragon)
The Assassins Guild (older dragon)
The Assassin's Run -module-
The House in the Frozen Lands (module)
Mechica (module)
Barnicus, city in peril (module)
Into the Forgotten Realms (module) reprinted in Forgotten Realms 1st ed.
That's life in the Big City
City Campaigns
Strategy of Tactics (melee tactics for 1st and 2nd edition AD&D)
Make Believe Magic (? Dra 33)
The Laws of magic (How the AD&D Universe works, and why)
The Many Types of Magic (whys and hows, spell-category system, AD&D)
The Tarrot of Many Things (nice interpretation of tarot as well)
Henchman and Hirelings (a review of the rules on NPCs)
Travel works both ways (wayfarers on the road)
Surprise! (surprise rules broken down into percentages)
Stirrups (?) (or something about mounted combat without stirrups)
Shadow of a Demon (short story) Gardner Fox, (14 Dra 2).
The Ninja -npc (7 Dra 16) (? Dra 30)
The Anti-paladin - npc (? Dra 39)
The Jester - npc (? Dra 60)
The bandit - npc (23 Dra 63)
For the Sake of Change - money (ancient, medieval, fantasy) (67 Dra 63)
Firearms - Ed Greenwood (24 Dra 60), A second Volley (33 Dra 70 )
Two fisted fighter - Roger Moore (7 Dra 68 )
The Cloistered Cleric - npc (30 Dra 68 )
The Real Barbarians (24 Dra 72 )
The Duelist - npc (6 Dra 73 )
The bureaucrat - npc (8 Dra 74 )
The Death Master - npc (? Dra 78 )
The Nine Hells - Ed Greenwood (23 Dra 76 )
Treasures Rare and Wonderous - Ed Greenwood (30 Dra 80)
Living in a material world (spell components) (58 Dra 81)
The Ruins of Andril - (adventure - ancient world feel set in the Sea of
Dust) (47 Dra 81).
The Dancing Hut - Roger Moore (Baba Yaga - adventure, death awaits)
(31 Dra 83)
The More the Merrier (clerics and conversion) (12 Dra 92)
Let the Horse buyer beware (different qualities of horses) (26 Dra 92)
The Witch (npc class) revised and expanded (9 Dra 114)
Surely You Joust! - (additional mechanics in the joust) (22 Dra 118)
The Fighting Cirlce, gladitorial combat (some interesting ideas) (8 Dra 118)
Is there a doctor in the forest (medieval surgery) (18 Dra 119)
The High Seas (expanded interpretation of ships and naval combat in AD&D) (10 Dra 116).
Here are some more by article title (as they are xeroxed copies), if you have the CD collection of these they will not be hard to find:
"Hello? Your Majesty" (communication in history and fantasy) great article!
Gypsies (an older dragon)
The Druids (one of the older dragons)
On Becoming a Great Druid, rites of ascension druidic circles (22 Dra 119)
The First Assassins (older dragon)
The Assassins Guild (older dragon)
The Assassin's Run -module-
The House in the Frozen Lands (module)
Mechica (module)
Barnicus, city in peril (module)
Into the Forgotten Realms (module) reprinted in Forgotten Realms 1st ed.
That's life in the Big City
City Campaigns
Strategy of Tactics (melee tactics for 1st and 2nd edition AD&D)
Make Believe Magic (? Dra 33)
The Laws of magic (How the AD&D Universe works, and why)
The Many Types of Magic (whys and hows, spell-category system, AD&D)
The Tarrot of Many Things (nice interpretation of tarot as well)
Henchman and Hirelings (a review of the rules on NPCs)
Travel works both ways (wayfarers on the road)
Surprise! (surprise rules broken down into percentages)
Stirrups (?) (or something about mounted combat without stirrups)
Last edited by sepulchre on Mon Jun 02, 2008 3:27 pm, edited 2 times in total.
I think over again my small adventures. My fears, those small ones that seemed so big, for all the vital things I had to get and to reach, and yet, there is only one great thing, the only thing, to live to see the great day that dawns, and the light that fills the world. - Old Inuit Song
“Superstitions are religious forms surviving the loss of ideas. Some truth no longer known or a truth which has changed its aspect is the origin and explanation of all. The name from the Latin, superstes, signfies that which survives, they are the dead remnants of old knowledge or opinion” - Eliphas Levi (138 The History of Magic).
“Let no one wake a man brusquely for it is a matter difficult of cure if the soul find not its way back to him”, the Upanishads of ancient India ( 58 Our Oriental Heritage, Durant).
"Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring" – Edward Gorey.
"The bright day is done and we are for the dark" - Shakespeare
"No lamp burns till morning" - Persian proverb.
“The living close the eyes of the dead, but it is the dead that open the eyes of the living”— Old Slavic saying.
'The best place to hide a light is in the sun' – old Arab proverb.
'To thee, thou wedding-guest!
He prayeth well who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best who loveth best,
All things both great and small:
For the dear God, who loveth us,
He made and loveth all' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (VII Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner).
“Superstitions are religious forms surviving the loss of ideas. Some truth no longer known or a truth which has changed its aspect is the origin and explanation of all. The name from the Latin, superstes, signfies that which survives, they are the dead remnants of old knowledge or opinion” - Eliphas Levi (138 The History of Magic).
“Let no one wake a man brusquely for it is a matter difficult of cure if the soul find not its way back to him”, the Upanishads of ancient India ( 58 Our Oriental Heritage, Durant).
"Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring" – Edward Gorey.
"The bright day is done and we are for the dark" - Shakespeare
"No lamp burns till morning" - Persian proverb.
“The living close the eyes of the dead, but it is the dead that open the eyes of the living”— Old Slavic saying.
'The best place to hide a light is in the sun' – old Arab proverb.
'To thee, thou wedding-guest!
He prayeth well who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best who loveth best,
All things both great and small:
For the dear God, who loveth us,
He made and loveth all' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (VII Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner).
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Thanks Sepulchre, that looks good. That stirrups one will probably get my gall up. If you're not familiar with the Great Stirrup Controversy, Google it. 
[i]It is a joyful thing indeed to hold intimate converse with a man after one’s own heart, chatting without reserve about things of interest or the fleeting topics of the world; but such, alas, are few and far between.[/i]
– Yoshida Kenko (1283-1350), [i]Tsurezure-Gusa[/i] (1340)
– Yoshida Kenko (1283-1350), [i]Tsurezure-Gusa[/i] (1340)
'The Great Stirrup Controversy', hmmm, I had no idea, I'll check it out. I wanted to underscore two modules I listed, The Ruins of Andril, and House in the Frozen Lands are top notch. Enjoy the new acquisition. I went wild for a year or so when I got hold of that set.
I think over again my small adventures. My fears, those small ones that seemed so big, for all the vital things I had to get and to reach, and yet, there is only one great thing, the only thing, to live to see the great day that dawns, and the light that fills the world. - Old Inuit Song
“Superstitions are religious forms surviving the loss of ideas. Some truth no longer known or a truth which has changed its aspect is the origin and explanation of all. The name from the Latin, superstes, signfies that which survives, they are the dead remnants of old knowledge or opinion” - Eliphas Levi (138 The History of Magic).
“Let no one wake a man brusquely for it is a matter difficult of cure if the soul find not its way back to him”, the Upanishads of ancient India ( 58 Our Oriental Heritage, Durant).
"Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring" – Edward Gorey.
"The bright day is done and we are for the dark" - Shakespeare
"No lamp burns till morning" - Persian proverb.
“The living close the eyes of the dead, but it is the dead that open the eyes of the living”— Old Slavic saying.
'The best place to hide a light is in the sun' – old Arab proverb.
'To thee, thou wedding-guest!
He prayeth well who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best who loveth best,
All things both great and small:
For the dear God, who loveth us,
He made and loveth all' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (VII Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner).
“Superstitions are religious forms surviving the loss of ideas. Some truth no longer known or a truth which has changed its aspect is the origin and explanation of all. The name from the Latin, superstes, signfies that which survives, they are the dead remnants of old knowledge or opinion” - Eliphas Levi (138 The History of Magic).
“Let no one wake a man brusquely for it is a matter difficult of cure if the soul find not its way back to him”, the Upanishads of ancient India ( 58 Our Oriental Heritage, Durant).
"Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring" – Edward Gorey.
"The bright day is done and we are for the dark" - Shakespeare
"No lamp burns till morning" - Persian proverb.
“The living close the eyes of the dead, but it is the dead that open the eyes of the living”— Old Slavic saying.
'The best place to hide a light is in the sun' – old Arab proverb.
'To thee, thou wedding-guest!
He prayeth well who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best who loveth best,
All things both great and small:
For the dear God, who loveth us,
He made and loveth all' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (VII Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner).
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