Best of The Dragon Vol. 2

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Best of Dragon

title Dragon subtitle From The first four years of DRAGON Magazine publisher TSR date 1981 editor Kim Mohan preceded by Best of The Dragon Vol. 1 followed by Best of The Dragon Vol. 3

front table of contents

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S:New NPCs (old favorites) 4^The Anti-Paladin^George Laking^Tim Mesford 11^Samurai^Mike Childers^Jeff Key 12^Healers^C. Hettlestad 14^Berserker^Jon Pickens 15^Scribes^David Mumper 16^The Ninja^Sheldon Price 21^The new, improved Ninja^Sheldon Price

S:From the Sorcerer's Scroll 26^D&D relationships: A whole and its parts^Gary Gygax 27^Ground and spell area scales^Gary Gygax 28^Realism vs. game logic^Gary Gygax 31^What the game is; where it's going^Gary Gygax 33^Much about melee^Gary Gygax 36^Character social class^Gary Gygax 39^Looking back, and to the future^Gary Gygax 42^Evil: Law vs. chaos^Gary Gygax 43^Humans and hybrids^Gary Gygax 45^Books are books, games are games^Gary Gygax 47^Make-belive magic^Gary Gygax 49^Good isn't stupid: Paladins and rangers^Gary Gygax

S:Monsters and miscellany 51^Theory and the use of gates^Ed Greenwood 52^Inns and taverns^I. Marc Carlson 56^Good evening^Lenard Lakofka 59^Varieties of vampires^R. P. Smith 60^A look at lycanthropy^Jon Mattson 62^Blueprint for a lich^Lenard Lakofka 64^Tesseracts^Gary Jordan 65^Which way is up?^Allen Wells 68^the politics of Hell^Alexander von Thorn 72^Poison: From AA to XX^Charles Sagui 76^The nomenclature of pole arms^E. Gary Gygax

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