A pretty good issue of Dragon for D&D and AD&D players this one has a particular focus on the Cleric and has a lot of different articles on how to play clerics and roleplaying ideas for your character. Three main articles on healing and curing magic, variety for cleric abilities and tying actions to religious outlook (i.e. acting in accordance with the cleric’s faith) make up this pretty good cleric section.

Other columns are also good, with Ed Greenwood bringing us the Ecology of the Ixitxachitl, those vampiric flying manta-rays and the second part of the Twofold Talisman adventure. One of the fiction offerings here is also important for D&D fans, particularly Dragonlance fans, with what is the first appearance of Tasslehoff Burrfoot in fiction in a tale by Roger Moore about the Kender in his usual misadventures. This time he teleports into a Magus’ castle where he witnesses a summoning of the Demogorgon with disastrous effects… but not for Tas. We also get introduced to Kitiara and Strum by the end of the tale.

With some good art, such as a full page piece by Lora Louise Freeland illustrating a fiction story, and the usual comic strips (with the exception of the late lamented What’s New with Phil and Dixie), this is a pretty good issue, definitely worth tracking down if you are a cleric.