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Reading a couple of hundred articles in Dragon makes you realize how good Greenwood's material really is.

Greenwood's Pages From the Mages articles have held up very nicely, and this kind of writing is one of the reasons the Forgotten realms...

Nothing related to the contents. It's just a fancy dragon to celebrate the 100th issue of "Dragon". A faerie dragon was chosen because...

The cover image is gorgeous...but does it have any particular relevance for the content within? Or is it just a pretty paper sculpture?

Having strong, defined categories makes it easier to sell them to people. When fantasy encompasses Elves and four-armed Tharks...

I suspect the strong separation between science fiction and fantasy, despite being the two great tastes that taste great together, was...

100%. It's funny, the book that broke my genre purism was Burroughs A Princess of Mars. I didn't get to reading that until my...

Very true, but tbh I just "embraced the gonzo" and played the adventure as written, even though I was born and raised in London.

Off-topic side note on the role of infernal politics in Gygaxian D&D lore (I was remembering the Gord novels and bit off a bit more than...

I remember reading some of those letters, long after the fact. The module took a wide variety of British cultural and historical...

Just so any Guardians of the Galaxy film fan doesn't shell out for this back issue and get disappointed: The Guardians of the Galaxy...

I totally ran a Druid/Ranger. When I was playing 1E, Rangers were far and away my favorite class (not a surprise as a big LotR fan) and...

Yeah, that seems a minority opinion. I am looking forward to digging into issues 100+ a bit more closely to see what I find.

definitely a milestone issue, with an odd cover (a paper sculpture, apparently). Can't say I made use of any of the stuff inside; never...

This adventure and the classic Expedition to the Barrier Peaks were some of my first exposures to fantasy / science fiction crossovers...