D&D General Is there a compilation of old Dungeon Magazines?

[sabrinathecat]

I've seen various print and electronic/pdf versions of Dragon Magazines over the years, but I don't remember ever seeing one for the old Dungeon magazines. Individual used copies range from $3 to $100, but those are, let's face it, a limited supply, and I've seen what happens when a periodical completely disappears.
So, have I just missed it? Am I out of my gourd? Or is there a "Duh, dude--it's right over here."?

 

[aco175]

I think there is a internet archive dot something that is a library for books and might have that in one of the collections.

 

[Zardnaar]

Not a legal one.

 

[tetrasodium]

I think that the dragon archive got put in a very legal cd included with one of the 3.x (maybe 2e?) books but don't recall which book and don't know if it also included the uk dungeon mag as well.

 

[Zardnaar]

I think that the dragon archive got put in a very legal cd included with one of the 3.x (maybe 2e?) books but don't recall which book and don't know if it also included the uk dungeon mag as well.

Dragon only. First 250 issues.

Expensive now and harder to get going.

CDs also "rust".

 

[GothmogIV]

I bought all of the Dungeon, and all of the Dragon, magazines years ago on Humble Bundle or something (pdfs).

 

[sevenbastard]

Not a legal way to get them other than used in print.

I subscribed starting at issue 9 and eventually bought all the back issues used, but honestly most of the adventures are not that great and I hold on to them out of nostalgia versus actually using them.

 

[Zaukrie]

I'm unsure the legality.... As the archive was mentioned in dragon+.... But it is likely not legal on the archive. But that did confuse me.

 

[Rabulias]

WotC/TSR released the Dragon Magazine Archive in 1999, a 5-CD-ROM set collecting scanned PDFs of issues 1-250 of The Dragon/Dragon Magazine and issues 1-7 of The Strategic Review. These are cover to cover scans and include all the ads and everything. It is a great resource and one of my prized collectors items. You can find it on eBay sometimes.

It got WotC into a legal pickle, as they had not gotten permission from artists of their various comic strips like "What's New with Phil & Dixie" and "Knights of the Dinner Table." The KODT strip was produced by the folks at Kenzer. WotC worked out a deal with them to let them publish Kingdoms of Kalamar books under the D&D 3rd edition trade dress, and I think it also gave them the right to use AD&D 1st edition and 2nd edition as the basis for Kenzer's Hackmaster game.

There has never been a similar compilation of Dungeon Magazine, but there have been some legal PDFs out there. In the D&D 3.x era, Paizo produced and sold PDFs of many (but not all) of the issues of Dragon and Dungeon that they produced. Note the Paizo PDFs omit the ads, as well as some fiction and comic strips.

WotC produced PDFs for both titles for D&D 4e. I think some of the 4e PDFs were free on Wizards' website for a while. They also compiled one Annual of each title, and they are still available to buy on DM's Guild.

Lastly, there was a CD-ROM included with Dungeon 87 (July/August 2001) and Dragon 284 (June 2001) that included a PDF of Dungeon Magazine issue 1, along with two bonus adventures and some random generators.

 

[haakon1]

I collected them all, finishing around 2023. I bought many when they came out at FLGS, some back issues at cons or FLGS, and filled in the rest from Noble Knight or eBay.

I’ve been writing reviews of every print issue (1-150), and expected to be done and share it, probably in 2027. Only 4 issues left, but it’s slow going and I may redo some. It started off as short notes for my own DMing, but morphed into the idea of an index to share with comprehensive notes.