The Other Side blog This Old Dragon Issue 8. Ok. So I know I just did issue 8. And in truth this could have been the next one in, some of them are in order, most are not and I pick randomly. But I did choose this one on purpose for the Spell Research article. More on that in a bit though. In truth this was the one right next to 8. So lets get to it. Put your VHS of Cronenbergs Videodrome on and curl up with This Old Dragon Issue 8. Ever wonder what a Dancing Sword  looks like Well this issues cover might give you a good idea. Or it is a magic spell being used by the wizard in back. So let me think. February of 1. I would have been a freshman in high school. I had already moved over to AD D proper by this point but was still using the Known World. I knew of Greyhawk, of course, but didnt have anything for it yet. In truth I was not doing much at this point since I had just come off of a 1. I had in this time read all of the Tolkien books that were out of the time and watched an obscene amount of Doctor Who and Space 1. Moving on. Letters covers mistakes or typos from issues. Big ad for the Dr. No supplement for the James Bond game. The Forum covers some details about Ed Greenwoods Nine Hells Revisited articles cant wait to do those namely what to do about Lawful Evil gods. Still a good question really. Nigel Findley is up for our first proper article, The Ecology of the Peryton. My memory is fuzzy, but I do remember that this is one of the first Ecology articles I ever read and it was also one I really liked. It really made this creature into something more than a collection of stats and a weird picture in the Monster Manual. Note that this Ecology article is not by Ed Greenwood. Still, it is a fine read. I challenge anyone to reread this and NOT want to use a Peryton in your game. Wounds and weeds, Plants that can help keep characters alive is an AD D game herbal from Kevin J. Anderson.  As expected it has a warning not to try these at home, these are AD D game stats only. What follows are six pages of various herbs, with some pictures, that have some uses in the game. These are various healing herbs that work when magical healing is no where around. I think this is a good addition to any Druid or Witch class since healing magic is not their prime focus. While long, even at six pages it feels short. Maybe because I have seen other articles and books like this that were much longer. Sba_FYojdU/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Watch Dragonquest Online (2017)' title='Watch Dragonquest Online (2017)' />Enhancing the Enchanter by Craig Barrett is for the DRAGONQUEST game. DQ was always one of those games. Contactmusic. com is the premier destination for official music videos, music reviews, movie trailers, movie reviews and ratings, celebrity gossip, entertainment news. 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Fantasy films for fans, discover best Fantasy movies there Ff. Did you play this game The article is largely rule changes. At five pages it is also a longer article. We get another ad for Riddle of the Ring card game. I share this because I KNOW no one ever thought the Balrog looked like this. Speaking of rings. Up next is an article about a bakers dozen of magical rings. Rings that do weird things  Thirteen pieces of jewelry not from the DMG. All these rings are by various authors two by Ed Greenwood. The Ring of Bladeturning eventually had to be banned in my games. New Avenues for Agents is a preview of the Top Secret Companion. I never was really into spy games. Again, Ill admit a certain curiosity to play the James Bond game and I tried the Spycraft d. But overall they never really grabbed me like fantasy or horror games do. Our centerfold is a full game, The Baton Races of Yaz. It looks like a kids game. Certainly that is true, but I have watched people bid on that old boxed set of the Dragon Magazine Games and people really seem to love it. I should point out that my copy does not have this. I only know about it because of my Dragon CD ROM. Curing the Monty Haul Malady by Roger E. Moore deals with a common problem of most D D games. The article is an edited version of some letters that have come in. Some of the examples given I just cant really take seriously  He decided his character would kill Orcus, and after that his character became the new prince of the undead, with an unlimited amount of any undead to control, even an unlimited number of liches. The character also has some star destroyers he uses to fly around in space or to destroy planets. Yeah. This was the 8. Sad to say. but yes I knew a guy that claimed his character had a Star Destroyer. Not a Star Wars character, a D D character. This though has been an issue in some games since the very beginning. Star Destroyers No, the Monty Haul problems and the ridiculously over powered game not the same thing mind you, but they usually go hand in hand. While we were encouraged to not go to crazy high levels, there was nothing in the rules to stop you. Tim Kasks warnings in Gods, Demi gods and Heroes read more like a challenge I think to many. D D tried to make these limits more ingrained in the rules usually stopping at 2. BECMI and D D4. But gamers will be gamers I guess. A review of battle mats, dice towers and the Dragonbone computerized dice roller. I always kinda wanted one of those, but every DM I ever had said they would not allow it. Also rolling dice is still the best. I still have and use a battle mat though. Spells between the Covers is the big reason I grabbed this issue. Bruce Heard does a great job of filling some of the gaps in our knowledge on how to do spell research. While I think many players know now many of the points made here, this article did not have the benefit of years of the community playing Call of Cthulhu. In that game a good occult library is worth more than gold and more dangerous than plutonium. Speaking of dangerous. This magazines mildew is getting so bad I am switching over to a print out from my CD ROM. The costs associated with building a library really should hold up edition to edition. There is a lot of great stuff here about purchasing books. BUT the REAL treasure is the list of books and the sages that wrote them. Here is a brief sampling that NO real wizard, mage, sage or occult scholar should be without. Idioms Rare Cryptographs by Elminster Legendry of Phantoms and Ghosts by Evard. Lore of Subtle Communication by Tasha. The Forgotten Arts of Oratory Magnetism by Leomund. Theory of the Invisible Forces by Tenser. Gazette of the Norse Climates by Otiluke. Epic Saga of the Great Conjurers by Mordenkainen. 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Caffrey Kevie. 1. Her father had Irish and English ancestry, and her mother was of Irish descent. She attended Stuart Hall a girls boarding school in Staunton, Virginia, and graduated from Montclair High School in New Jersey. In 1. 94. 7 she graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College with a degree in Slavonic languages and Literature. In 1. 95. 0 she married Horace Wright Johnson died 2. They had three children Alec Anthony, born 1. Todd, born 1. 95. Georgeanne Gigi, Georgeanne Kennedy, born 1. Except for a short time in Dsseldorf, the family lived for most of a decade in Wilmington, Delaware. They moved to Sea Cliff, Long Island in 1. Mc. Caffrey became a full time writer. Mc. Caffrey served a term as secretary treasurer of the Science Fiction Writers of America from 1. In addition to handcrafting the Nebula Award trophies, her responsibilities included production of two monthly newsletters and their distribution by mail to the membership. Mc. Caffrey emigrated to Ireland with her two younger children in 1. Ireland had recently exempted resident artists from income taxes, an opportunity that fellow science fiction author Harry Harrison had promptly taken and helped to promote. Mc. Caffreys mother soon joined the family in Dublin. The following spring, Mc. Watch Bro Youtube'>Watch Bro Youtube. Caffrey was guest of honour at her first British science fiction convention Eastercon 2. There she met British reproductive biologist Jack Cohen, who would be a consultant on the science of Pern. Mc. Caffrey had had two short stories published during the 1. The first Freedom of the Race, about women impregnated by aliens was written in 1. Alec. It earned a 1. Science Fiction Plus. Her second story, The Lady in the Tower, was published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction by editor Robert P. Mills and published again by editor Judith Merril for The Years Greatest Science Fiction. Mc. Caffrey said she thought of the story when wishing herself alone, like a lady in an ivory tower. Judith Merril matched Mc. Caffrey with her long time literary agent Virginia Kidd died 2. Milford Writers Workshop to which she returned many times, where participants each brought a story to be critiqued. After her first Milford workshop in 1. The Ship Who Sang, the story which began the Brain Brawn Ship series. At the storys end, the spaceship Helva sings Taps for her human partner. Decades later, Mc. Caffreys son Todd called it almost an elegy to her father. In interviews between 1. I put much of myself into it myself and the troubles I had in accepting my fathers death 1. Mc. Caffrey then wrote two more Ship stories and began her first novel. Regarding her motivation for Restoree 1. I was so tired of all the weak women screaming in the corner while their boyfriends were beating off the aliens. I wouldnt have beenIdve been in there swinging with something or kicking them as hard as I could. Mc. Caffrey explained that it did not require a sequel it served its purpose of an intelligent, survivor type woman as the protagonist of an s f story. Regarding her 1. 96. Decision at Doona which she dedicated To Todd Johnsonof course, her son recalled that he was directed to lower his voice in his fourth grade school play when his mother was in the auditorium. That inspired the Doona story, which opens on an overcrowded planet where just talking too loud made you a social outcast. As a settler on Doona, the boy talker has a priceless talent. Mc. Caffrey made a fast start in Ireland, completing for 1. Dragonquest and two Gothic novels for Dell, The Mark of Merlin and The Ring of Fear. With a contract for The White Dragon which would complete the original trilogy with Ballantine, her writing stalled. During the next few years the family moved several times in the Dublin area and struggled to make ends meet, supported largely by child care payments and meager royalties. The young adult book market provided a crucial opportunity. Editor Roger Elwood sought short contributions for anthologies, and Mc. Caffrey started the Pern story of Menolly. She delivered The Smallest Dragonboy for 1. The Crystal Singer. Futura Publications in London signed her to write books about dinosaurs for children. Editor Jean E. Karl at Atheneum Books sought to attract more female readers to science fiction and solicited a story for young women in a different part of Pern. Mc. Caffrey completed Menollys story as Dragonsong and contracted for a sequel before its publication in 1. The tales of Menolly are continued in Dragonsinger Harper of Pern, and Dragondrums as the Harper Hall Trilogy. With a contract with Atheneum she was able to buy a home named Dragonhold for the dragons who bought it. Her son wrote, 2. Pern and then was herself freed by her dragons. DragonseditThe first Pern story, Weyr Search, was published in 1. John W. Campbell in Analog Science Fiction and Fact. It won the 1. 96. Hugo Award for best novella, voted by participants in the annual World Science Fiction Convention. The second Pern story, Dragonrider, won the 1. Nebula Award for best novella, voted annually by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Thus she was the first woman to win a Hugo for fiction8 and the first to win a Nebula. Weyr Search covers the recruitment of a young woman, Lessa, to establish a telepathic bond with a queen dragon at its hatching, thus becoming a dragonrider and the leader of a Weyr community.