With a cool cover by Carl Lundgren, this is another issue full of D&D content and one appropriately chilly one, coming out in December. Starting out with Gygax’s Featured Creatures bringing some new fungoid creatures to the roster of AD&D monsters, and an article by Roger Moore on dual wielding, trying to find a better system than the official one at the time, we move on to icier subjects.

We start this off with a huge article by Arthur Collins on Ice Age Adventures, which imagines a setting for a pre-cities fantasy world, where dwarves, elves and humans roam about as hunter-gatherer parties hunting mammoths and generally being cold. This is a really fun exercise in world-building: what if your fantasy setting existed in a completely different time period or social structure condition. The weather theme continues with an article about Weather in the World of Greyhawk by David Axler, but with Gygax’s seal of approval. Through mapping of weather zones and calendar calculations Axler gives us a bunch of tables and rules to determine what the weather is where and at what time. 

Other good stuff includes more official spells for Magic Users in The Sorcerer’s Scroll, NPC cloistered clerics, as in the clerics that live in a monastery studying rather than kicking ass in adventures, tables to determine water encounters, as well as another entry in the Gods of Greyhawk series, with beings like Celestian or Ehlonna showing up here. We close out with the usual comics in another great issue of Dragon.