Best of Dragon Vol. II A collection of creatures and characters, opinions and options from the first four years of DRAGON Magazine.Contents:New NPCs (old favorites)' The Anti-Paladin - by George Laking and Tim Mesford From issue #39, July 1980 Samurai - by Mike Childers and Jeff Key From issue #3, October 1976 Healers - by C. Hettlestad From issue #3, October 1976 Berserker - by Jon Pickens From issue #3, October 1976 Scribes - by David Mumper From issue #3, October 1976 The Ninja - by Sheldon Price From issue #16, July 1978 The new, improved Ninja - by Sheldon Price From issue #30, October 1979From the Sorcerer's Scroll D&D relationships A whole and its parts From issue #14, May 1978 Ground and spell area scales From issue #15, June 1978 Realism vs. game logic From issue #16, July 1978 What the game is where it's going From issue #22, February 1979 Much about melee From issue #24, April 1979 Character social class From issue #25, May 1979 Looking back, and to the future From issue #26, June 1979 Evil Law vs. chaos From issue #28, August 1979 Humans and hybrids From issue #29, September 1979 Books are books, games are games From issue #31, November 1979 Make-believe magic From issue #33, January 1980 Good isn't stupid: Paladins & rangers From issue #38, June 1980Monsters and miscellany Theory and use of gates - by Ed Greenwood From issue #37, May 1980 Inns and taverns - by I. Marc Carlson From issue #29, September 1979 Good evening - by Lenard Lakofka From issue #30, October 1979 Varieties of vampires - by R.P. Smith From issue #25, May 1979 A look at lycanthropy - by Jon Mattson From issue #24, April 1979 Blueprint for a lich - by Lenard Lakofka From issue #26, June 1979 Tesseracts - by Gary Jordan From issue #17, August 1978 Which way is up? - by Allen Wells From issue #38, June 1980 The politics of Hell - by Alexander von Thorn From issue #28, August 1979 68 Poison: From AA to XX - by Charles Sagui From issue #32, December 1979 The nomenclature of pole arms - by E. Gary Gygax From issue #22, February 1979From the Introduction: 'The main reason that 'Best Of' Vol. II was so long in the making. These articles are reprints, to be sure - but many were revised. Outdated or irrelevant material was removed (that left more room for the good stuff, anyway). And it's hard for an editor to resist the temptation to tinker with an article when given a second crack at it. The articles also look different than the first time around. Once we decided which to include (decisions prompted by readers' opinions), we opted to display those pieces originally - as parts of this whole, packaging related articles to share a similarity in appearance and presentation as well as subject matter, though they were first published years apart. Accompanying these new-looking articles is new artwork: visions of NPC's by David Larson ghoulish undead from Tim Truman and a three-part scene from the imagination of Jack Crane. - BoardGameGeek