Could a magazine run an article about beholders?

[afstanton]

Is it possible that they got permission from WotC and just didn't say so?

 

[Klaus]

Is it possible that they got permission from WotC and just didn't say so?

So far from likely it don't merit considering.

The editors (who had another mag before this) usually print known illustrations (like Elmore's Dragonslayers pic) and don't credit or pay for it either.

 

[Cergorach]

More recently there was a magazine of adventures and it advertised what games it had adventures for, including CyberPunk, Shadowrun, Ars Magica and so on.

I think your talking about Challane Magazine (by GDW), there are others though...

 

[HellHound]

No, I thought of Challenge after the fact, but the magazine in question was called Adventures or something like that, and didn't belong to any of the major game publishers of the time. It also didn't last long.