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It's the 2nd Edition era...or is it? The three core 2nd Edition books are on the shelves in the stores and Dragon is hyping their arrival in ads. But the articles are still largely 1st Edition. New 1st Ed Barbarians (again), Cavaliers (again) and a bunch of great BECMI content. All in this...

It's November 1981. Hall & Oates are on the radio. Time Bandits are in the theatres. The newest AD&D book on the shelves is Fiend Folio and it is sitting next to This Old Dragon #55. http://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2017/12/this-old-dragon-issue-55.html Erol Otus gives us a cover and...

I remember the start of 1986 as being a very cold one. Of course, this is the month that the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on takeoff, forever changing how we felt about our space program. On my bookshelves were The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein and DC's The Crisis of Infinite...

Sorry this one is late! But "Game" sites are now blocked at work. Clicked in and got a big ole "This action is being monitored by XXXX and will be reported to HR." I like ya'll, but not enough to get fired! It's July 1986. My High School D&D campaign was wrapping up. But in Dragon, we get...

Bit of a cheat today. I went out to my FLGS and picked this one up just so I could review it today! I wanted to have a look at the Alchemist class. I was having a conversation online with a former co-worker and former White Wolf designer about the Alchemist. I thought it might be fun to go...

Let's go all the way back to the winter of 1983. I was in 8th grade and getting excited about the new Return of the Jedi movie coming up. Toto had knocked out Men At Work for a week with "Africa". In the theatres we cult classics like "The House on Sorority Hill", "The Entity" and...

Let's go back to my Freshman year in University with an issue I have a spotty memory for. I remembered the Alchemist article quite well but thought there some cardboard ships in this issue too. This week's issue is all about magic. We get an alchemist class, some ideas on illusions and...

It is not an exaggeration to say that Dragon #114 was a watershed issue for me. For a bit I had been working on my own Witch class with varying levels of success. Then October 1986 comes around and everything changed for me. I will say that this is the best issue of Dragon in my mind. So much...

Sadly no! I had some great ideas for them too.

October 1987. I am in my freshman year at University and the largest Halloween party in the state of Illinois is about to start. White Snake is on the radio and to this very day I can't hear it and not think of my then about to be ex-girlfriend. On the shelves is the Halloween issue of Dragon...

Another October issue, but less Halloween content in this one. Also, could this be the first issue of Dragon with Forgotten Realms content? I have been spending my 2017 getting introduced to the Forgotten Realms. Yes in nearly 40 years of gaming I had NEVER played in the Realms till this...

What? A post on a Tuesday? Yes! I had posted some October Dragons earlier in the year before I started to share them here. So I figured I would share them now to keep the festive October mood going. Up now is a post I made back in April for Issue #150 of This Old Dragon...

This Old Dragon #138 More Undead than you can shake a broomstick at! Skeletons, zombies, ghouls and more. Plagues and the end of the world. It's October 1988 and this is Issue #138 of This Old Dragon. http://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2017/10/this-old-dragon-issue-138.html

Doing a little cheating here this week. Going to spend this October going over all my favorite October issues in my collection. October is a big deal over at my blog The Other Side. In addition to a bunch of horror related RPG posts I participate in the October Horror Movie Challenge. This year...

I hate to mention it, but some of these Dragons are such bad shape that the only thing I can do after reviewing them is toss them. A few are so mildewy (not of my doing, I bought them like this) that I couldn't even read them with loading up on antihistamines.