History Magazine / Dragon

** The "Giants In The Earth" series of articles (running intermittently from issues 26 to 64) included 1st edition stats for [[IntercontinuityCrossover many heroes from literature and legend]] (such as [[TheEarthseaTrilogy Sparrowhawk/Ged]], [[TallTale John Henry]], [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Reepicheep]], Literature/ProfessorChallenger, and [[Literature/KingSolomonsMines Umslopogaas]]). [[AprilFoolsDay Issue #48½]] included BugsBunny, DaffyDuck, {{WesternAnimation/Popeye}}, RockyAndBullwinkle, and DudleyDoRight.

* CoolGate: In issue #100, the adventure "The City Beyond The Gate" has the players travel through one to (then present-day) 1985 [[UsefulNotes/{{London}}]] to recover a powerful artifact from the Victoria and Albert Museum.

** The "Giants In The Earth" series of articles (running intermittently from issues 26 to 64) included 1st edition stats for [[IntercontinuityCrossover many heroes from literature and legend]] (such as [[TheEarthseaTrilogy Sparrowhawk/Ged]], [[TallTale John Henry]], [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Reepicheep]], Literature/ProfessorChallenger, and [[Literature/KingSolomonsMines Umslopogaas]]. [[AprilFoolsDay Issue #48½]] included BugsBunny, DaffyDuck, {{WesternAnimation/Popeye}}, RockyAndBullwinkle, and DudleyDoRight.

** The "Giants In The Earth" series of articles (running intermittently from issues 26 to 64) included 1st edition stats for [[IntercontinuityCrossover many heroes from literature and legend]] (such as [[TheEarthseaTrilogy Sparrowhawk/Ged]], John Henry, [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Reepicheep]], Literature/ProfessorChallenger, and [[Literature/KingSolomonsMines Umslopogaas]]. [[AprilFoolsDay Issue #48½]] included BugsBunny, DaffyDuck, {{WesternAnimation/Popeye}}, RockyAndBullwinkle, and DudleyDoRight.

** The "Giants In The Earth" series of articles (running intermittently from issues 26 to 64) included 1st edition stats for [[IntercontinuityCrossover many heroes from literature and legend]] (such as [[TheEarthseaTrilogy Sparrowhawk/Ged]], John Henry, [[Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader Reepicheep]], Literature/ProfessorChallenger, and [[Literature/KingSolomonsMines Umslopogaas]]. [[AprilFoolsDay Issue #48½]] included BugsBunny, DaffyDuck, {{WesternAnimation/Popeye}}, RockyAndBullwinkle, and DudleyDoRight.

** [[AprilFoolsDay Issue #48½]] included 1st edition stats for BugsBunny, DaffyDuck, {{WesternAnimation/Popeye}}, RockyAndBullwinkle, and DudleyDoRight.

* HonestAdvisor: Although many TSR employees wrote articles for the magazine, at least at the start it was intended to be editorially independent. If TSR wanted to place ads in ''Dragon'' they had to buy space like any other company; conversely, if ''Dragon'' wanted to review a TSR product, they shelled out the dough to buy a copy. Issue #55 includes not one, but ''two'' decidedly mixed reviews of the 1e ''Fiend Folio'' (the long-awaited sequel to the classic ''Monster Manual'') that complained about many of the monsters being derivative or lacking detailed background information.

* HonestAdvisor: Although many TSR employees wrote articles for the magazine, it was intended to be editorially independent. If TSR wanted to place ads in ''Dragon'' they had to buy space like any other company; conversely, if ''Dragon'' wanted to review a TSR product, they shelled out the dough to buy a copy. Issue #55 includes not one, but ''two'' mixed reviews of the 1e ''Fiend Folio'' (the long-awaited sequel to the classic ''Monster Manual'') that complained about many of the monsters being derivative or lacking detailed background information.

* HonestAdvisor: Although many TSR employees wrote articles for the magazine, it was intended to be editorially independent. If TSR wanted to place ads in ''Dragon'' they had to buy space like any other company; conversely if ''Dragon'' wanted to review a TSR product, they shelled out the dough to buy a copy. Issue #55 includes not one, but ''two'' mixed reviews of the 1e ''Fiend Folio'' (the long-awaited sequel to the classic ''Monster Manual'') that complained about many of the monsters being derivative or lacking detailed background information.

* HonestAdvisor: Although many TSR employees wrote articles for the magazine, it was intended to be editorially independent – if TSR wanted to place ads in ''Dragon'' they had to buy space like any other company, and conversely if ''Dragon'' wanted to review a TSR product, they shelled out the dough to buy a copy. Issue #55 includes not one, but ''two'' mixed reviews of the 1e ''Fiend Folio'' (the long-awaited sequel to the classic ''Monster Manual'') that complained about many of the monsters being derivative or lacking detailed background information.

* HonestAdvisor: The magazine was intended to be independent from TSR Hobbies to the point where TSR had to buy ads for its product like any other company, and if the magazine wanted to review a TSR product, they'd have to buy a copy from them. Issue #55 includes not one, but ''two'' mixed reviews of the 1e ''Fiend Folio'' (the long-awaited sequel to the classic ''Monster Manual'').

''Dragon'' is the official ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' magazine. Published from from 1976 to 2002 by TSR / WizardsOfTheCoast, the magazine was outsourced to Paizo Publishing (a company founded by [=WotC=] alums, now known for publishing ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'') through September 2007 (issue 359). At this point Wizards took the license back from Paizo, and restarted it as an online-only version, in which format it continues to be published. In all incarnations, ''Dragon'' has been "100% official content", and much material that was first published in it has found its way into ''D&D'' gaming supplements; in this way, it has served as a proving ground for aspiring game designers. Three other publications were merged with it at various times--''Little Wars'' (TSR's wargaming publication), ''Ares'' (for science fiction games that TSR acquired from SPI), and ''Living {{Greyhawk}} Journal'' (for [=WotC=]'s organized play events).

The magazine spun off several comic strips, including ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'', ''ComicStrip/WhatsNewWithPhilAndDixie'', ''DorkTower'', and ''{{Nodwick}}''. Additionally, ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' ran a series of bonus strips in it.

* {{Crossover}}: "The Wizards Three", a series of humorous short stories by Ed Greenwood in which Mordenkainen of {{Greyhawk}}, Elminster of the ForgottenRealms, and Dalamar of {{Dragonlance}} met for friendly dinner parties in Ed's dining room while Ed hides in a suit of armor.

* TroperWorks: Troper Tropers/LooneyToons has two articles in ''Dragon'' (in issues 78 and [[MugglesDoItBetter 100]]). Forgive him their quality, he was young.
** Troper Tropers/IEnjoyPaste has one, in 346. He's still quite proud of it.
** Troper [[Tropers/Eoppen]] was once a regular contributor.

** Troper Tropers/Eoppen was once a regular contributor.

Not to be confused with a Japanese magazine called ''Dragon'', which covers Japanese [=RPGs=] and includes manga, and was the original source of the manga for ''{{Slayers}}'', ''FullMetalPanic'', ''ChronoCrusade'', ''RecordOfLodossWar'', and other series.

* BazaarOfTheBizarre: A regular feature by this name spotlighted new, unusual, and often humorously twisted magical items.

The magazine spun off several comic strips, including ''KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'', ''ComicStrip/WhatsNewWithPhilAndDixie'', ''DorkTower'', and ''{{Nodwick}}''. Additionally, ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' ran a series of bonus strips in it.

The magazine spun off several comic strips, including ''KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'', ''ComicStrip/WhatsNewWithPhilAndDixie'', ''DorkTower'', and ''{{Nodwick}}''. Additionally, ''Webcomic/OrderOfTheStick'' ran a series of bonus strips in it.

* {{Crossover}}: "The Wizards Three", a series of humorous short stories by Ed Greenwood in which Mordenkainen of {{Greyhawk}}, Elminster of the ForgottenRealms, and Dalamar of {{Dragonlance}} met for friendly dinner parties in Ed's dining room.
** The conceit was that Elminster helped Ed conceal himself in a suit of armor to watch them talk, in exchange for a neutral meeting space. As far as I know, Mordenkainen and Dalamar never knew Ed was present.

The magazine spun off several comic strips, including ''KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'', ''WhatsNewWithPhilAndDixie'', ''DorkTower'', and ''{{Nodwick}}''. Additionally, ''Webcomic/OrderOfTheStick'' ran a series of bonus strips in it.

* RunningGag: The oft-promised but never-quite-delivered "Sex and ''D&D''" edition of comic strip ''WhatsNewWithPhilAndDixie''. [[spoiler:It was finally delivered in the 1994 strip collection... but was, in fact, all about monster mating habits.]]

''Dragon'' is the official DungeonsAndDragons magazine. Published from from 1976 to 2002 by TSR / WizardsOfTheCoast, the magazine was outsourced to Paizo Publishing (a company founded by [=WotC=] alums) through September 2007 (issue 359). At this point Wizards took the license back from Paizo, and restarted it as an online-only version, in which format it continues to be published. In all incarnations, ''Dragon'' has been "100% official content", and much material that was first published in it has found its way into ''D&D'' gaming supplements; in this way, it has served as a proving ground for aspiring game designers. Three other publications were merged with it at various times--''Little Wars'' (TSR's wargaming publication), ''Ares'' (for science fiction games that TSR acquired from SPI), and ''Living {{Greyhawk}} Journal'' (for [=WotC=]'s organized play events).

From 1986 to its end ''Dragon'' was accompanied by ''Magazine/{{Dungeon}}'' magazine, which provided premade adventures (mostly for Dungeons and Dragons). Like its sister publication, ''Dungeon'' is now online-only.