Thursday, February 3, 2022

Real-life Clerics: TSR Hobbies Needs You

This notice appeared in issue #40 of Dragon (August 1980). I can only assume that this was part of a public relations campaign in the aftermath of the James Dallas Egbert disappearance the previous August, which first brought Dungeons & Dragons to national attention in the USA. 

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  1. Well, it's much preferable to an ad seeking real-life assassins....

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    1. Also thieves.

      Just think, TSR could have joined Steve Jackson Games and Tri-Tac Publishing in being raided by the Law. Secret Service for Stevie, FBI for the Bureau 13 lads.

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  2. As I recall, this was followed up a few issues later with an interesting article penned by the inimitable Arthur Collins, who was in fact a clergyman.

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    1. He was also the author of some of my favorite articles in Dragon.

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    2. "When It Gets Hit, It Gets Hurt", "Great Stoney", The Psionicist and Deryni articles, his article on setting up a campaign and running it, and on, and on. In fact, I think that only Katharine Kerr might have written more articles that I loved. But then, I was never really a fan of the Forgotten Realms, so Mr. Greenwood's extensive output doesn't impress me as much as some (I did like his "Law of the Land", though, which might be the first article to give some news of actual goings-on in the original of that campaign; I was also fond of his article on mapping, which had no connection to the Realms as far as I could see).

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    3. Ah, found it. Issue 41, "Reflections of a Real-Life Cleric". It was his second writing for the magazine, the first being "That's Not in the Monster Manual!" in issue 37.

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