Recent issues of Dragon Magazine in .pdf

[AuroraGyps]

Thanks Piratecat

I'm sorry about that. I hope things go okay.

Thanks for the concern Piratecat. It could be going alot better, that's for sure. He's pretty much supported me for the last 7 years since I suffer from a Social Anxiety Disorder (for about 17 years now) that I've had a problem getting in control of. So I pretty much have nothing and am starting from scratch. It's like swimming up stream. Plus, on top of all that, my landlord told me this week that he no longer wants to me a landlord. So I have no $ (to-be ex-hubby's still supporting me), no job, no friends (they've all pretty much forgotten I exist), no RPGs (I haven't played since last March), and soon no home. AND, I also may lose my cat and that's THE WORST thing that could happen. She's been so helpful as company and cheering me up.
Ugh, sorry for the vent. It's just that I'm pretty much at the end of my rope. I make this analogy:

"I feel like a salmon trying to swim up a waterfall & I can't swim.
Hell, I'm so tired and shredded from all this, I feel like a big hunk of lox trying to swim up a waterfall, & I STILL can't swim!"


ANYWAYS, back to Dragon.... what about back issues? How far back are the issues available?

 

[Altalazar]

Sorry to hear about that...

Ok, back to the important stuff - Dragon Mags!

I am a collector, I started with 63 when it was new and I was like 11 years old.

Since then, I gradually accumulated all of them, and I found lots of different places to find them.

First, used book stores. That's where I found most of the old issues - I really lucked out because someone who had most of the issues I didn't had sold them all to the store and I happened to come in and look at the last issue of TSR (#6) - the owner saw me doing it and brought out the box of old Dragons. I bought pretty much all of them.

Then I needed to fill in holes - so I (and friends of mine) would look in used book stores whenever we were in a new locale. I also checked hobby stores, though they generally didn't have much, some did (and some even now still have some pretty old ones)

Finally, the last one or two issues I didn't have I got at Gen Con in like 1993, including issue #1.

Now I see a lot of issues for sale over ebay, and that is a far easier way to get them than searching the globe yourself.

I picked up Dungeon #1 for kicks that way - I have almost all of the Dungeons too, but I haven't yet bothered to fill in the holes - I am missing #2-6 and I am missing like 71-81 (I forget which exactly). I think it would be cool to have all Dungeons and Dragons. Get it? Heh.

Anyway, good luck!

 

[AuroraGyps]

Well, luckily I'm mostly concerned about the issues with 3E stuff. Although, I'v got my eye out for the issue that Thomas Canty did the cover for. It was back before #100 somwhere.

 

[NLP]

The Dragon Archive did violate copyrights. Some WotC exec didn't bother to check to see who owned the rights. There were many of us that ended up getting "settlements" because of the Archive, but alas we're not allowed to discuss them.

Methinks Kenzer came out the best on the deal though.

 

[Darkness]

Re: Thanks Piratecat


I wish you the best of luck, AuroraGyps...

 

[Maki]

Used books stores can be a solution. But here, in Brazil, it´s hard to get a recent Dragon issue so you can imagine how hard can it be to get a past issue.

And since WotC doesn´t carry past issues, why not revise this copyright subject so they can release some Archives?

Just wondering.