Cover by Thomas Canty – you can’t beat a knight on a horse!
What’s new
- New Dragon title logo! The logotype would essentially remain the same till #274, albeit with lots of variations including a change to a 3D style in #225
- At the start of volume IV, Kask takes a look back at what they’ve achieved with the Dragon and what plans they have – more Tom Wham games, contests, more colour, layout re-designs, etc
Sorcerer’s Scroll
- Guest column by Bob Bledsaw from Judges Guild about what they’ve done to help D&D with all their playing aids
Articles
- Brief report by Gygax on Cangames ’79 – says it was great
- A quick look at Dwarves
Variants
- Elementals and Philosopher’s Stone – creates some sort of 18 sided thingy that adds more elements such as dry, cold, etc and the corresponding elementals
- Mythos of Africa – you know the drill
Giants in the Earth
- Alan Garner’s Durathor
- Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
- Edgar Rice Burrough’s John Carter of Mars
Bazaar of the Bizarre
- Gygax – Bag of Wind and variants
Dragon’s Bestiary
- The Horast
Out on a Limb letters
- Rebuttal to the harsh LOTR movie critique in #25
Ads of note
- Best of The Dragon – on sale at at GenCon XII (August) and shipped by mail Sep 1