Recent content by JML

Dragon is still a delight; there are some lulls (the early years they're still figuring out how to be professionals and the quality varies widely; as TSR fell apart Dragon quality dropped as well before a nice resurgence in 3E; have to say I found the Paizo era disappointing with the increasing...

The Dragon Magazine Shannara issue was quite good and the "High Druid" prestige class fit the world pretty nicely. (Dragon had a nice resurgence in 3E, even if it was basically a D&D house organ at that point)

I'm very fond of TSR's settings for D&D, having romped through so many of them in my early D&D years. Greyhawk was of endless fascination, especially with that Darlene map! And when Lankhmar came out we decided to stick it in Greyhawk as well, because why the hell not? lol. I think the biggest...

For me this is close to the middle, but I also am of the (seemingly rare) opinion that Dragon had a very long and sustained period of about ten years or so where the quality was incredible.

Sadly, Robin Wood passed away in 2021, having battled both fibromylogia and cancer. Many great Dragon covers, but this is probably the most iconic. I would argue that there's a still a ton of greatness coming in Dragon; the real slide into House Organ territory doesn't come for several years...