What Dragon Magazine articles do you use in your game?

[Crothian]

In the 5 years of playing d20 I think we used the Duelist and the para ooze gensai. We've gotten more use out of the Star Wars Gamer

 

[Shade]

We use many, many things from Dragon. A feat here, a spell there, a weapon elsewhere, numerous monsters, and so on.

The ones I always keep handy as a player:
-Power Fantasy: Action Movie Stunts in D&D from #306
-Swashbuckler from #301 (mainly for the new skill uses)

Ones I've used frequenly as a DM:
-Annual 5, for the monsters of Tharizdun (although many have been reprinted since)
-#306, for the battleloths, elemental demons, and hellforged devils
-#300, for the planar dragons (until the Draconomicon reprinted them)
-#321, for the rest of the planar dragons
-#278, for the stonelord (until it was reprinted in Complete Warrior)
-#310, for the specialist fighters
-#309, for the Incursion info
-#315, for nearly everything

 

[DM_Fiery_Fist]

I use a ton of Dragon articles in my game. As I read each issue I put interesting articles into a Word file that I keep on my computer, where I have a sort of reference index typed up. I also enter a lot of the magical items into the eTools database, and then it's much easier to remember to use them during character creation, etc. Dragon has been VERY useful for me.

 

[Psion]

Well, as my world has a strong Far Realm component, the most recent dragon promises to come in handy.

I use the Talaire, the psionic race by Steve Kenson in one of the issues that came out after the original Psionics Handbook.

I like articles that give adventure ideas. I don't know right off which issues they are from because I copied them and put them in a binder. They include 101 mysteries, and two from an annual, one called Fresh Starts and one that is 101 villain plans.

I have used the various race name articles, such as Owen K.C. Stephens article on elf names in Dragon 251.

Silicon Sorcery is one of my favorite article. I like it because it goes a little off the beaten path and provides something less formulaic than typical D&D articles. Some of my favorites are those in 302 (Constructs), 314 (Magic item sets from Heroes of Might & Magic), and 325 (synergestic spellbooks from Dungeon Seige).

Other recent articles I have earmarked for use in my game:
304 Mercenaries For Hire: The Nameless Legion (A monstrous planar mercenaries guild )
305 Venom and Coil (Yuan-ti cultural notes)
306 By Evil Bound (Themed fiends)
308 Personable Dwarves (Dwarf variant)
308 Armed to the Tentacle: The Illithid Arsenal (Weapons and symbionts of Illithids Penny Williams)
311 Arcane Ancestry (Bloodline Feats for Sorcerers - cuz Sorcerers are wimpy)
312 Among the Dead (Necromancer archetypes and abilities)
312 Assassin Specialty Prestige Classes (Variant assassin PrCs)
312 The Ebon Maw (Monsters of the Hunger Eternal, by our own Mouseferatu)
313 Brain Power (Magic/Psionic mixing feats and Mind Mage class)
313 Dragon Psychoses (Templates depicting dragon psychoses)
315 Planescape: The Exiled Factions (Faction prestige classes)
315 Kara-Tur (Martial Arts Styles, Ancestor Feats)
317 Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog: Using Power Components (Sample power components)
317 Osteomancer (3 body-magic related PrCs)
318 Oriental Adventures Update (Oriental Adventures 3.5 update)
321 Limitless Light (Plane of Radiance)
321 Creatures of Brilliance (Creatures of the plane of radiance)
322 Shadow's City (Balefire, shadow plane city)
322 Shady Characters (Templates and races for shadow oriented characters)
323 Seven Deadly Sins (Domains for the Seven Deadly Sins)
324 Living Nightmares (Creatures of nightmare)
325 A Surge of Theurgy (Feats for Mystic Theurges)

Finally, I keep my Dragon archive CD set handy -- it has some great articles I have bookmarked. Don't have that file handy right now, but a few things I have used in the past include an article on the sociery of yuan-ti, a series of haloween articles with exotic undead, and rules variants adding new IOUN stones and adventure ideas involving how they were created.