Theme: Dragons. Excellent cover by Fred Fields of an aerial gunner mounted on his dragon steed.

Forum Rules weapons, the DMG, pumped heroes, and use of official campaign settings.

Sage Advice by Skip Williams. Character and creature abilities.

Out of Character by Peter Adkison. DMing the dragon's eye view.

The Return of the Missing Dragons by Richard Alan Lloyd. Adding the "lost" chromatic dragons to AD&D: the yellow "salt" dragon, the orange "sodium" dragon, and the purple "energy" dragon.

Building a Better Dragon: Making the Powerful Less Predictable by Paul Frasier. An excellent article on adding wicked spins to your draconic creations, plus uses for the parts once the players have managed to kill one.

Crystal Confusion by Holly Ingraham. Solid, superb article on the many qualities, oddities, and arcane names of gems.

The Dragon of Vstaive Peak by Ed Stark. A millennia-old dragon of Cerilia.

Wyrms of the North: The Moor Dragon Mornauguth by Ed Greenwood. A polymorphed priestess with a biiiig problem....

The Quest for Steel by Ben Bova, art by William O'Connor. Fiction: an Arthurian timetravel tale by one of sci-fi's masters.

Dragon Dweomers III: Draconic Priest Spells by Robert S. Mullin. Seven spells for unusual dragon species.

The Dragon's Bestiary: Dragon-kin by Gregory W. Detwiler. A good article on beasts from world myth: Amphitere, Lesser Cetus, Dragonet, Gargouille, Hai Riyo, Peluda, and Sirrush.

Dungeon Mastery: In the News by Rob Daviau. Adapting news stories to create adventures.

The Ecology of a Spell Contest by Thomas S. Roberts. The winning entries and how they were selected.

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Profile: Dungeons and Dragons' founding father, Gary Gygax.

--By Sharon Daugherty