The humor ("humor") starts early with this editorial. No idea what Loremaster is, but for years this was the magazine's cover for me after the original tore off. maybe I can get it one ebay, how much could a 30 year old board game possibly go for anyway. Talisman, nice art, I wonder what ever happened to it. OR in the pages of a monthly magazine! So things like the Forum, letters pages, monster ecologies were the only place to share your sage ideas on how Harpies reproduce (don't ask, this is a family wargame site) or thoughts on Elven Druids this was it. You have to remember (or imagine I guess.) this was a time when the only places to talk about your hobby were with local friends, random folks you might meet at a store or a con. The issue also has the usual features of the time. But hey better than the Dragonquest ( tm) swimming rules I guess. And certainly not what I would have led with. It turns out to be deck plans for a smuggling ship for the Star Trek RPG. So the magazine plugs 'Ginny's Delight' on the cover and the table of contents which is, I mean OK I guess. And my respect and regard for the gaming hobby has never been the same since. So alongside the usual content there were things like the Quazar Dragon and Nogard, the ultimate adventure. Someone really ought to keep that tradition up. I still have my copy somewhere in storage, minus the cover and several pages but I found it on ebay for $5 so why not?Īs it happens it was an April issue (not sure why I got an April issue for summer vacation, maybe it was on the shelf? or maybe I just didn't get to reading it for a while) and Dragon had a tradition of doing parody articles for April Fools. It was a pretty significant milestone in my gaming and hobby career. I had started playing basic D&D the year before I picked this up for some summer vacation beach reading and remember reading it several times, laughing at the jokes and studying the ads of what else was out there. Why a random issue of Dragon from 34 (!!) years ago?īecause it was the first issue of Dragon I ever got and in many ways my introduction to the larger world of table top games and what was out there. Which does not even put me in the top 50 Dakka posters, but at least I'm close to passing Gwar who was banned 10 years ago so there's there.ĪNYWAY so I figured this was a good time one of my award-seeking Retro Reviews and this time I'm doing Dragon Magazine 96 from April 1985 (as always be sure to chime in if you weren't born when this came out). So this is my 20,000th (!!) post on Dakka, or at least this iteration of Dakka, and not counting my extensive comments in the gallery and oh, whatever, it's post 20k so there.
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