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The Dragon Issue #30, Vol. IV, No. 4

title The Dragon publisher TSR date October 1979 editor Tim Kask cover artist Elrohir format staple-bound magazine pages 44 preceded by Dragon 29 followed by Dragon 31

front table of contents

CONTENTS

• Features
  • The Game's The Thing—GenCon XII report, Kim Mohan
  • Where The Orcs Are—Miniature masterpiece, Steven Brown
  • Good Evening—Leomund's Tiny Hut, Lenard Lakofka
  • New Setting for the Adventure—Sorcerer's Scroll, Gary Gygax
  • Standardization vs. Playability—Up on a Soapbox, Bob Bledsaw
  • Tournament Success in Six Steps, Jon Pickens
  • Giants in the Earth—Three more heroes and heroines, Lawrence Schick, Tom Moldvay
    • Sol of All Weapons
    • Zorayas
    • Maal Dweb
  • Bazaar of the Bizarre—Orlow's inventions, William Fawcett
  • Dragon's Bestiary—Curst

• Variants
  • The New, Improved Ninja!, Sheldon Price

• Design/Designer's Forum
  • Boot Hill? Sure! But What Scale?, Ralph Wagner
  • Flattop: A Long Game but a Strong Game, S. Craig Taylor, Jr.

• Reviews
  • The Dragon's Augury—Spellmaker, Black Hole, Dawn Styphon

• Humor
  • Wormy, David Trampier
  • Finieous, J. D. Webster

• Background
  • Lankhmar—How "Fafhrd" and "The Mouser" met, F. C. MacKnight
  • Armies of the Renaissance—Eastern Europe, Nick Nascati

• News/Views
  • Chaos With a Happy Ending—ORIGINS report
  • Did You Know?—Our calendar's coming!
  • Convention Schedule 1979-1980
  • Out on a Limb
  • Tell Us Your Fantasies!