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ISSUE NO. 1

COVER: Every silver

lining has its cloud,

as Keith Parkinson

shows in his portrait

of Flame from Into

the Fire. Keith

researched the

treasures in Flame’s

hoard, borrowing

from actual 14th-

through 18th-century

treasures in Europe.

The enraged Flame,

of course, is pure

Keith.

Out of the dungeon, into the fire

On a forgotten summer day in 1976, a college friend told me

about a wild new game that she was playing in the local stu-

dent center at the University of Kentucky. We use beans for

our characters, Shelia said. Its hard to imagine that your

bean is really a wizard, but we havent got any figures to play

with yet.

Later on, I found a small boxed copy of this game in a local

hobby shop and brought it home. I read all three of the little

tan booklets and didnt understand any of it. Such was my

introduction to DUNGEONS & DRAGONS® gaming. I made

Shelia Wise a halfling goddess in later years, in thanks for

getting me started in this mess. Now I have a chance to pass on

the favor to everyone else.

DUNGEON Adventures is a new periodical from TSR; Inc.,

in which you, the readers, may share your own adventures and

scenarios from AD&D® and D&D® gaming with the legions of

other fantasy gamers. Each issue offers a number of fairly

short (but often quite complicated and long-playing) modules,

selected from the best we receive.

What kind of adventures do you want to see? Were going to

offer as broad a spectrum of material as possible: dungeon

crawls, wilderness camp-outs, Oriental Adventures modules,

solo quests, tournament designs, BATTLESYSTEM scenarios,

and more. Of course, what we have to offer depends on what

you send to us. (See our guidelines offer on page 60.)

Write in and tell us what you want.

The Readers

A new magazine, a new

readership, and many new questions. .2

Michael Ashton and

Lee Sperry

A vampire

has the royal crown and youve got to

get it back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Patricia Nead Elrod

What

happened to the signal tower? What

waits for you in the misty

mountains? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

John, Nephew

The leader of a norker

uprising is free. Go find him! . . . . . . .28

Anne Gray McCready

A brief encounter with

an unusual dwelling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Grant and David

Boucher

The solution to a

15-year-old mystery lies in a volcanic

mountain range. The last force sent in

was destroyed. Youre next. . . . . . . . .42

Carl Smith

A silent forest,

a lonely shrine, and no survivors. . . .61

PUBLISHER: Mike Cook

CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS:

James Holloway, Dave

LaForce, Keith Parkinson,

Roger Raupp, Jim Roslof,

Eileen Lucas, Karen Martin, Dave Sutherland, Tim

Georgia Moore, Debbie

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT:

Truman, Valerie Valusek

PRODUCTION STAFF: Linda

Poutsch, Patrick Lucien Price

Bakk, Kim Lindau, Coileen

ART DIRECTOR: Roger

OMalley, Gloria Szopinski,

Raupp

Carolyn Vanderbilt

GRAPHIC DESIGN: Ruth

ADVERTISING: Mary

Parkinson

SUBSCRIPTIONS: Harriet

Meacham, Pat Schulz

Hoyer

Sorry! I dont want any adventures, thank you. Not today.

Bilbo Baggins

The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

LETTERS

THE DARK TOWER OF CABILAR

ASSAULT ON EDDISTONE POINT

GRAKHIRT'S LAIR

THE ELVEN HOME

INTO THE FIRE

GUARDIANS OF THE TOMB

EDITOR: Roger E. Moore

Dear editor,

I see in DRAGON® #107 Magazine

issue that you still lack a name for the

module magazine youre about to pro-

duce. Why not call it Wyrm?

Wyrm, the old term for dragon, is seen

in such classics as Beowulf and the

Nibelungenlied. A sister magazine to

DRAGON magazine should have a

related name.

the legal department.

Dozens of names were discarded in the

search, such as Chimera, Atlantis, Lab-

yrinth, Tesseract, Voyager, Viking, High

Adventure, Quest, Oracle, Hoard, Para-

gon, DM, Spectrum, Centaur, Arcana,

Gateways, Multiverse, Orion, and Sage,

as well as less serious ones like

Unleashed!, TMM, Dungeon Ears

Survival Guide, and Dungeon Propa-

ganda. Wyrm and several variations on

that name were also considered, but

these because of trademark restric-

tions, previous usage, confusion in spell-

ing or with other products, or

unattractiveness were soon dropped.

Perhaps 50-100 names were generated

This brings up the next letter. . . .

The name DUNGEON had been con-

sidered as a magazine title for a long

time at TSR, Inc., because it was an

obvious and perfect compliment to

DRAGON Magazine (thanks to the

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS® game).

Skip Williams was the first person who

mentioned this title to your editor. We

had also received several letters like the

one above that all suggested the same

Wyrm gives a wonderful feeling of

antiquity, perhaps due to its unusual

spelling. That aura of fantasy and

antiquity fits perfectly into the context

of the AD&D® game. Also, I assume

that a large part of the module maga-

zines content is based on the AD&D

game. Since DRAGON Magazine is

AD&D-game based, it makes sense that

a similar publication should be simi-

larly named.

name, and I have notes from meetings in

which the name DUNGEON Adven-

tures appears as a possibility. In time, it

was this name that was selected. A

dungeon is an adventuring environment,

and adventures are what this magazine

is all about.

The main focus of DUNGEON Adven-

tures is on modules, not on gaming

articles; the latter belong in DRAGON

Magazine. The letters column also serves

Editor:

After reading the editorial in the

latest issue of DRAGON Magazine

Wyrm can also conceivably save on

mundane printing expenses, too. After

all, its short, only four letters long, and

easy to remember. Plus, since it is so

short, it wont block out so much of the

cover art, unless you print it in huge

letters.

as a question-and-answer column for

(#107), I am reminded of a letter I sent

correcting errors in previously published

to you about two years ago suggesting

modules or for clarifying and detailing

the very same thing, a separate maga-

ways of handling certain situations

appearing in such modules. We have no

zine containing modules and articles

based on the subject of modules.

other regular features planned, but we.

The publication would be titled

Dungeon Magazine. I generated two

are open to suggestions.

Hope you take this idea under consid-

eration. I cant wait for the new module

magazine, whatever its name.

Alan Struthers

Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin

columns to be in each issue: a Forum-

Dear sirs:

type column with help for the DM called

Blue Lightning and another with

I understand that changes in

DRAGON Magazine may see modules

help on constructing homemade mod-

published in a separate magazine. I do

not favor this as modules are a feature

ules named Drawbridge. Your edito-

One of my first orders of business as

editor of this periodical was to come up

with a name for it. Creating names was

easy; my own imagination was supple-

mented by helpful letters and comments

from readers, friends, and coworkers at

TSR, Inc. However, the names had to

meet the approval of the publisher and

rial does not address if you plan to

of DRAGON Magazine that I enjoy. If

include text in the new magazine, or if

they are published separately, I may be

forced to choose between DRAGON

articles will be found in DRAGON Mag-

azine only. But, as your editorial also

said, decisions still remain to be made.

Magazine and the module magazine due

to the restrictions of my budget for such

Randy Bisig

publications.

Fulton, Missouri

DUNGEON Adventures (ISSN applied for) is published bimonthly by TSR, Inc. The mailing address for all material except subscription orders is DUNGEON Adventures, P.O. Box 110, Lake Geneva, WI 53147; the business

telephone number is (414) 248-3625. DUNGEON Adventures is available by subscription throughout the United States and Canada. The subscription rate via second-class mail is $15 in U.S. funds for one year (six issues) sent to

an address in the U.S. or Canada. Information on foreign subscriptions can be obtained by writing to: Subscription Department, DUNGEON Adventures, TSR, Inc., P.O. Box 110, Lake Geneva, WI 53147. Payment in full must

accompany all subscription orders. Payment should be by check or money order, made payable to TSR, Inc., or by charges to valid MasterCard or VISA credit cards, Send subscription orders with payments to: TSR, Inc., P.O. Box

72089, Chicago, IL 60690. The issue of expiration of each subscription is printed on the mailing label for each subscribers copy of the magazine. Changes of address for the delivery of subscription copies must be received at least

six weeks prior to the effective date of the change, in order to assure uninterrupted delivery.

All material published in DUNGEON Adventures becomes the exclusive property of the publisher, unless special arrangements to the contrary are made prior to publication. DUNGEON Adventures welcomes unsolicited

submissions of written material and artwork; however, no responsibility for such submissions can be assumed by the publisher in any event. Any submission accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope of sufficient size

will be returned if it cannot be published. Please write for our writers guidelines before sending a module to us; send a self-addressed, stamped envelope (9½ long preferred) to: Module Guidelines, DUNGEON Adventures, TSR,

Inc., P.O. Box 110, Lake Geneva, WI 53147.

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2 Issue No. 1

LETTERS

I am willing to try the new system, so

please reserve a copy of the new module

magazine for me if it comes about. I will

try both magazines for one year and

then decide whether to get both, only

one, or neither regularly.

A new magazine with only modules is

a good idea but may be too expensive for

those of us on low budgets. If I may, I

would like to suggest a few ideas for the

new magazine.

First, put it on the shelf as opposed to

selling it by subscription only. It will

then be available to more gamers and

will allow people to review its contents

before deciding to buy.

In addition, perhaps you could sepa-

rate the types of modules by issues. For

example, if the magazine were to be a

quarterly, two issues could be for D&D®

and AD&D games, one could be for

science-fiction games such as the STAR

FRONTIERS®, GAMMA WORLD®, or

TRAVELLER® games, and one could be

for others such as the TOP SECRET® or

CALL OF CTHULHU® games. Combin-

ing such a format with off-the-shelf

purchasing would allow a player of the

TOP SECRET and MARVEL SUPER

HEROES games not to get stuck with

a bunch of useless D&D modules, and

vice versa.

I know you have many other consider-

ations to make, but I thought Id give

you my opinion. Thank you.

J. G. Simpson

Victoria, British Columbia

We may eventually change our edito-

We may not always use boxed text in

rial policies if we receive enough feed-

our modules, but the parts of the text

back to justify it. We feel that

meant only for the Dungeon Masters

DUNGEON Adventures is very strong in

eyes are noted in the modules as such.

its present form and well do our best to

Your editor isnt a big fan of reading

please our readers.

sections of module text verbatim to play-

ers because it takes away from the spon-

taneity of the game. Nonetheless, it is

Dear editor,

I read with much joy that DRAGON

important to know what to tell the play

Magazine was planning to publish a

ers and what not to tell them. Well make

magazine devoted only to publishing

sure the distinction is clear.

modules. I am planning to subscribe to

it as soon as possible. I do, however,

Sirs:

have one suggestion. Please require

It might be interesting readers to

that the modules label what the DM is

see a blow-by-blow review of a previous

supposed to read and what he or she is

module, as an article, in a subsequent

supposed to keep to himself. I have

magazine.

noticed that, in many of TSRs modules,

which information the DM is supposed

Roger G. Allen

Willowdale, Ontario

to read is not made clear. I realize this

would take time, but I have found when

the information is kept secret and is not

This falls outside the scope of our

periodical. The retelling of old adven-

labeled, it is a lot harder on us poor

tures is fun and can be instructive, but

DMs. I would like for you to keep this in

mind when this new magzine is pub-

we would rather present as many new

opportunities for adventures as possible.

Readers can send in particular com-

lished. I thank you for your time. I have

enjoyed reading DRAGON Magazine

ments and suggestions for altering the

and look forward to the future.

playing of a module, if a gaming session

David Robinson

reveals some interesting alternatives to

Fultondale, Alabama

the modules set-up.

Because DUNGEON Adventures is

bimonthly, a yearly subscription should

not strain too many pocketbooks. We are

also offering a special subscription rate

that is detailed on the inside back cover

of this issue. The possibility of distribut-

ing it through stores is also being

explored.

After long discussions about the con-

tent of DUNGEON Adventures, it was

decided that only AD&D and D&D

modules would be featured in it. No

other games share the popularity that

these two have, and many gamers have

told us that they would prefer to get an

all-fantasy publication, regarding cover-

age of any other games as wasted space.

In addition, running modules for the

games of other companies would be too

trying on the editor who would then

have to be familiar with dozens of differ-

ent games in extreme detail. Focusing

the scope of DUNGEON Adventures on

these two games alone is the best move.

DUNGEON 3

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