+1 on The Dunegeon Master Experience articles.
I read issue #246 last night. The article A Few Good Henchmen, also by Chris Perkins, has a ton of interesting NPCs.
It's interesting to see the work of some of these guys before they became well-known. The same issue has a letter in the D Mail section by Stephen Radney-MacFarland , who currently writes the Save My Game articles.