Dragon Magazine Collections

[Samothdm]

I started subscribing with Issue #90 and have kept it up to this day. Before that, I started buying them on the shelves starting with Issue #72 and I think I have almost every issue between #72 and #89, as well as about 20 scattered issues between #41 and #72. I also have the CD-ROM collection of #1 - #250.

I love re-reading the old articles, both from a sense of nostalgia but also when I'm looking for a particular topic. For example, I searched the CD-ROM for articles on African Fantasy before Nyambe came out because I was working on that part of my campaign world.

That might make a neat idea for a Dragon "Best of...". Theme issues. There have been lots of articles over the years on the same topic but handled in a different manner each time. Witches, "exotic" locations (Asia, India, Africa), knights and military orders, etc. Just collect articles on a given topic, going all the way back to Issue #1 (and perhaps also The Strategic Review). Could be in PDF form I guess, but a soft-cover copy would be good, too.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I don't know how many I have and have to check when I started, this I have as far back as issue 10...now I have to go look!

 

[Orius]

My collection is puny, and covers mainly the later 2e period. The first issue I bought was #217 because it had the random tables for the Encyclopedia Magica about a half a year before the final volume with the master tables and index shipped. I started getting the magazine regularly a few issues later with #222 and with a few small gaps continuing getting the magazine up through issue #283. I bought #315 for the campaign classics theme, but otherwise, I haven't kept up with the magazine in a while.

Oh yeah, if the generator was the one in #251, the name means "Priest of the Arcane." Or something similar, since it was designed to be fairly flexible.

 

[adwyn]

Issue 45 (May 1980) was my first, bought it for the archer class. Months later I was hooked so I ordered back issues to bring me current. So I have #3, #5, and issues 7-265, with sporadic purchases from there on.

 

[Andre]

(BTW If anyone knows this issue number, I would really appreciate it )

If it's the November 1982 issue, it's #67.

 

[IronWolf]

I have several of the older ones on my shelf, in the 58 to 70-ish range I think. And I love the Dragon Archive collection CD which is always fun to look back through the older issues. Still lots of good stuff in there.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

I've probably got about a dozen or so of the more recent issues. Missed like one or two.

 

[Stik]

I started with issue 62, and have not missed an issue since. I can still picture the cover- an armored man on horseback fighting two or three orcs with a forest and a mountain peak behind.

 

[Samothdm]

I started with issue 62, and have not missed an issue since. I can still picture the cover- an armored man on horseback fighting two or three orcs with a forest and a mountain peak behind.

That was an awesome cover! In 8th grade we had a creative writing assignment wherein you had to take a picture from a magazine and write a story about it. I used that picture and wrote a whole series of short stories called "The Cavalier". The teacher loved it!

 

[JediSoth]

I have every issue since #124. I'll occassionally go back and look at old issues, but I generally don't get much use out of them. I don't game enough to use a whole lot of resources. As far as I can remember, the only article I've gotten use out of since 3.0 came out is the one on leveled weapons.

I enjoy the magazine (Dungeon, too), I just don't have the time to utilize all the resources at my disposal, particularly while running a "World's Largest Dungeon" campaign.

JediSoth