Cm Unex. Pe 2141011 Oe: \CiO Ne Magadazirte feel. horanythingADVENTURES FOR TSR® ROLE-PLAYING GAMES COVER: A band ot humanoid diplomats sets off on an important mission, Humanoid diplomats??? As you can tell from the fone of Jim Holloway's cover Painting for "Rank Amateurs," no one takes the idea too seriously MARCHIAPRIL 1990. ISSUE #22 week that I proofread Jim Ward's “Angry Mothers 54 of DRAGON® Magazine, I received a letter Daring th rom Heck’ for issue In response to my plea for thought provokin article deals with how TSR makes decisions about what acceptable in TSR's game products by eliminating whatever would anger a normally calm and caring mother (or father, for that matter ‘The peraon who wrote to me had not yet read Jim's article, but he ypendenty suggested that L use my editorial to define the ethical standards that exist for submissions to DUNGEON? Advent Paragraph buried in our writer's guidelines that n readers may see, 50d like to repeat it here and give you my own thoughts on what personally turns me off Tenlelessncse should be sr id. Do not write adven dren or helph f Satan or Seloniom. us figures. Explicit sex, the ‘offensive language . ment of alcohol or drag o and bathroom humor cannot be used. iVadmit right now that gratuitous cruelty and violence bother me a lot more than sex, and I get positively enraged about substance abuse (this includes starting every adventure with the PCs awiling down mugs of ale in a tavern) T also prefer honorable, heroic goals and dislike adve hich pure greed is the primary motivation. I'l turn away ut a vil PCs. IFT on all credibility in claiming Superiority of good tiumphing playing evil and are theref m the other hand. | f something condones its use. Ithis were w, you could say that Uncle Tom's Cabin ondones slavery, or that The Diary of Anne Frank condones fascism When we depict scenes of vilest evil, they're aot meant to condone these acts but to motivate the heroes. If no one ever threatened to sacrifice the beautiful princess, enslave the hard-working villagers, of tothe Abyss, what use would we have for heroes Padus J tory Vol. IV, No. 4 PUBLISHER: Jim Ward EDITOR: Barbara G. Young ART DIRECTOR: Paul Hanchette CARTOGRAPHER: Dies ‘TYPESETTING Kathleen C. MacDonald SUBSCRIPTIONS: Janet L, Winters Dale ‘The Readers LETTERS 2 THE DARK FOREST (AD&D levels 2-3) The alchemist would like some fungus and spores, but no one wants to get them. Perhaps you could help. 4 THE LEOPARD MEN (AD&D levels 8-10) The wicked Leopard Men might have loads of treasure—but no one has ever met one and lived to talk about it, ... 13 TOMB IT MAY CONCERN (AD&D paladin, levels 4.6) You wake up in a dungeon. But how did you get there, and why? 28 UNCHAINED! (AD&D DRAGO! CEP adventure, levels 6-10) “We gnomes built this wonderful dragon but now the darn thing seems to be out of control.” Dan Salas David Howery Randy Maxwell Bruce Norman 36 John Terra RANK AMATEURS (D&D humanoids, levels 1-3) You and your fellow humanoids are going to be diplomats! Can you say “disaster”? I knew you could, . .. 50 Gandalf's eyes flashed, and his brows stuck out like bristles “Mr: Frodo, si!” cried Sam, quaking. “Don’t let him hurt ime, sir, don’t let him turn me into anything unnatural! My old dad would take on so: The Fellowship ofthe Ring, J.B. R. Tolkien