Attronarch's Athenaeum

Last year I collected 143 most recommended Dragon articles into a reading list. Given the size, I divided them into three collections: Player Advice, Judge Advice, and Setting Advice.

Now I'll begin reading the second collection, Judge Advice, with the intention of noting anything interesting and worthwhile. I plan to share my notes as I go, since others might benefit from them.

Here is the table of contents for the Judge Advice collection:

• Judge Advice
  
  • The Referee’s Code of Honor (John Setzer, Dragon Magazine #184)
  • The way we really play: Development of a DM is a three-stage process (Tom Armstrong, Dragon Magazine #106)
  • Beyond the rule book: Procedure and style tips for good GMing (Lew Pulsipher, Dragon Magazine #75)
  • Five keys to DMing success: Make it easy on yourself and fun for your players Dragon (Mike Beeman, Dragon Magazine #80)
  • History of a game that failed: An essay on mistakes—and how not to make them (David F. Godwin, Dragon Magazine #99)
  • No campaign ever fails: What to do if your game gets out of control (Joel E. Roosa, Dragon Magazine #111)
• Dragons
  
  • Run For Your Lives: How to DM a dragon (Adam Kay, Dragon Magazine #284)
  • Dragon damage revised: Claw and bite attacks graded by size and age (Leonard Carpenter, Dragon Magazine #98)
  • Dragon damage revisited: Finishing the figures for physical attacks (Leonard Carpenter, Dragon Magazine #110)
  • The Cult of The Dragon: Describing the dreaded dracolich and the sorcerers who create them (Ed Greenwood, Dragon Magazine #110)
  • The Draconomicon: The lesser evils of the draconian undead (Thomas Kane, Dragon Magazine #234)
  • Tailor-made treasure: Develop different hoards for different dragons (Roger E. Moore, Dragon Magazine #98)
• Monsters
  
  • The humanoids: Goals and gods of the kobolds, golbins, hobgoblins, & gnolls (Roger Moore, Dragon Magazine #63)
  • Crude but effective: Simple tactics for humanoids (Derek Jensen, Dragon Magazine #199)
  • 101 Dirty Orc Tricks: Traps and tactics for your favourite humanoids (John Baichtal, Dragon Magazine #239)
  • By Tooth and Claw: Ordinary animals are dangerous in any game (Gregory Detwiler, Dragon Magazine #116)
  • The Wild, Wild Wilderness (David Howery, Dragon Magazine #187)
  • Bugged About Something? If your AD&D characters aren’t afraid of insects, they soon will be Dragon (Gregory W. Detwiler, Dragon Magazine #174)
  • How heavy is my giant? (Shlum da Orc, Dragon Magazine #13)
  • Giant-sized weapons: The bigger the monster, the bigger the blow (Stephen Martin, Dragon Magazine #109)
  • Blame it on the gremlins: Militaristic mischief-makers (Gregg Chamberlain, Dragon Magazine #79)
  • Campaign Classics Al-Quadim: The Roof of the World (Wolfgang Baur, Dragon Magazine #241)
  • Enter the Far Realm: Unspeakable madness, corruptions, and terror from beyond reality (Bruce R. Cordell, Dragon Magazine #330)
  • For NPCs Only – The Death Master (Lenard Lakofka, Dragon Magazine #76)
  • The Wild Warriors (Tom Griffith, Dragon Magazine #111)
  • Make monsters, not monstrosities (Lewis Pulsipher, Dragon Magazine #59)
• Illithids
  
  • The Sunset World: In the realm of the mind flayers (Stephen Inniss, Dragon Magazine #150)
  • The ecology of the mind flayer: As told by someone who ought to know (Roger Moore, Dragon Magazine #78)
  • The Dragon’s Bestiary: All life crawls where mind flayers rule (Stephen Inniss, Dragon Magazine #150)
• Misfortunes & Malignancies
  
  • How to give disease a fighting chance (Matt Thomas, Dragon Magazine #53)
  • Poison: The toxins of Cerilon (Larry DiTillio, Dragon Magazine #59)
  • Taking the sting out of poison: Another views on how to use toxic cocktails (Chris Landsea, Dragon Magazine #81)
  • Curses! Twenty good ideas for bad tidings (Ed Greenwood, Dragon Magazine #77)
  • Curses Are Divine: But their effects on your fantasy hero are horrible! (Mark Keavney, Dragon Magazine #167)
  • 101 Hauntings (Anne Brown, Dragon Magazine #252)
  • Gypsies: A curse or a blessing—or both (A. D. Rogan, Dragon #59)
• Puzzles
  
  • Creating Word Puzzles for Your AD&D Game (Mike Selinker, Dragon Magazine #271)
  • Riddles of the Rhyming Sphinx (Johnathan M. Richards, Dragon Magazine #271)
  • Logic Missiles (Mike Selinker, Dragon Magazine #282)
• Treasure
  
  • “It’s sort of like a wand. . .” (Gary Coppa, Dragon Magazine #161)
  • Something Completely Different: Variety should be a treasure hoard’s spice (Bruce Humprey, Dragon Magazine #179)
  • Gems galore (Ed Greenwood, Dragon Magazine #72)
  • Rings that do weird things: Thirteen pieces of jewellery not from the DMG (various authors, Dragon Magazine #82)
  • Non-violent Magic Items: One hundred ways to keep players guessing (Lewis Pulsipher and Roland Gettliffe, Dragon Magazine #73)
  • Blades with personality: DM’s planning can produce distinctive swords (Sam Chupp, Dragon Magazine #109)
  • A sharp system for swords: Magic blades get more personality and purpose (Pete Mohney, Dragon Magazine #99)
  • Magic Gone Haywire: Magical-item misfirings in the AD&D game (Rich Stump, Dragon Magazine #163)
  • Tarot of many things (Michael J. Lowrey, Dragon Magazine #77)
  • Unspeakable Secrets Made Easy: Building your unspeakable library in Chaosium’s CALL OF CTHULHU game (Dean Shomshank, Dragon Magazine #150)
• Miscellaneous
  
  • It’s a good day to die: Death statistics of D&D players (Lyle Fitzgerald, Dragon Magazine #20)
  • Basic D&D points of view from the editors old and new (J. Eric Holmes and Tom Moldvay, Dragon Magazine #52)
  • The solo scenario: One-player parties are fun for two (Katharine Kerr, Dragon Magazine #73)
  • Plan it by the numbers: A system for tailoring challenges to characters (Frank Mentzer, Dragon Magazine #101)

More on each in the coming months.

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