| Dragon magazine | MM3 | - | The Dragon #24 | Dungeons & Dragons |
Congratulations to the winners are definitely
in order. Also,
apologies for having waited so long to
publish them. All of these extra
color separations are quite expensive,
and we just couldn’t hack it until
now.
This contest did not have nearly as many
entrants as #1. In the
future, we will no longer do any of these
art contests, but we do plan to
do another “name that monster” type soon.
The number of entries was
very disappointing, but the quality of
submissions in many cases helped
ameliorate the situation. Winners of prizes
where a choice is involved
must inform us of their choices ASAP. The
first place finisher will receive
the DM’s Guide upon publication.
For those readers that have forgotten, or
those that never saw it
when we announced the contest, we have
reprinted the excerpt by Fritz
Leiber that these artists attempted to
visualize. Again, congratulations to
the winner, and all the artists that placed.
from THE BLEAK SHORE©
Fritz Leiber
. . . For the flat landscape that spread
out before them was without
sign of life. In front of them the basalt
dipped down to form a large
hollow of black sand — tiny particles of
iron ore. In the sand were half
embedded more than two score of what seemed
to the Gray Mouser to
be inky-black, oval boulders of various
sizes. But they were too perfectly
rounded, too regular in form to be boulders,
and slowly it was
borne in on the Mouser’s consciousness
that they were not boulders,
but monstrous black eggs, a few small,
some so large that a man could
not have clasped his arms around them,
one big as a tent . . .
. . . Then he saw that what lay before him
was not utterly lifeless.
Movement of a sort had come to the Bleak
Shore. A crack had appeared
in one of the great black eggs, and then
in another, and the
cracks were branching, widening as bits
of shell fell to the black, sandy
floor . . .
. . . The first hint of their nature came
in the form of a long,
swordlike claw which struck out through
a crack, widening it farther.
. . . The two creatures which emerged in
the gathering dusk held
enormity even for the Mouser’s drugged
mind. Shambling things, erect
like men but taller, with reptilian heads
boned and crested like helmets,
feet clawed like a lizard’s, shoulders
topped with bony spikes, forelimbs
each terminating in a single yard-long
claw. In the semidarkness
they seemed like hideous caricatures of
fighting men, armored and
bearing swords. Dusk did not hide the yellow
of their blinking eyes . . .
. . . “For warriors, a warrior’s doom.” . . .
. . . then he saw the new-hatched creatures
racing toward them, a
shrill, eager screeching issuing from their
long muzzles. . . .
. . Counter-thrusts glanced off impenetrable bony armor . . .
. . . The beasts seemed tireless, creatures
of bone and metal rather
than flesh. . . .
PRIZES
FIRST PRIZE
A 13 issue sub to THE DRAGON
$35 Gift Certificate from THE DUNGEON HOBBY
SHOP
(redeemable in person or by mail order)
An autographed set of AD&D (DM
Guide upon publication)
SECOND PRIZE
13 Issue sub to TD
$20 gift Certificate from THE DUNGEON HOBBY SHOP
Autographed MONSTER MANUAL or PLAYER’S HANDBOOK
(your choice)
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THIRD PRIZE
Seven issue sub to TD
$10 gift Certificate from THE DUNGEON HOBBY SHOP
HONORABLE MENTION
$5 gift Certificate
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All winners will also receive an extra copy of this issue
2nd Place — Karl Merris — California
Honorable Mention -- Tom Masher — New York
1st Place -- Robert Charrette -- Maryland
3rd place -- Stephen Sullivan -- Maine
Honorable Mention -- Erol Otus -- California
Honorable Mention -- M. Naylor -- New York