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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ivocaliban" data-source="post: 3534618" data-attributes="member: 17596">Although I've been gaming since '91 I didn't start buying Dragon magazines until after the D&D 3.0 edition hit the stands. So if my favorite issue seems relatively recent it's because I live in an area with no local gaming stores (even the nearest bookstore is a two-hour round trip). I never had the pleasure of growing up with Dragon. I bought the Rules Cyclopedia on a trip to Detroit one summer and pretty much based my next four or five years of gaming on it alone. Then I got detoured into White Wolf and didn't come back to D&D until the release of 3.0e.Issue #294 was the turning point for me. It was the first time I'd ever bought an issue (though I'd read several before) and it remains my favorite to this day. It's seen more use than any other Dragon magazine I've bought since. Nearly every article offered something significant to my recent Greyhawk campaign. Because of issue #294, Iuz and Tharizdun (along with Hextor) became the major threats to the heroes and the Church of Rao became a great ally (joining those of Heironeous and Pelor). Because of issue #294, my BBEG wielded the chilling artifact Druniazth in the final battle of a nearly seven-year campaign. Because of issue #294, the PCs discovered a relic of the mythic empires west of the Flanaess: a legendary flying ship complete with a living figurehead. No single issue of Dragon did so much to shape one of my campaigns than #294. I used something from almost every single article...and I still use much of it today. While I've found useful material in all the Dragon (and Dungeon) magazines that I've bought since that issue, it's still the one that inspired me to buy more and to make a weekly trek to that faraway bookstore just to thumb through the latest issue. I'll miss those trips!</blockquote>

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