Dragon Magazine - Definition and Overview

Dragon, first issue 1976, is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.

Each issue has a number of articles about Prestige Classes, races, Monsters and many other subjects that can be used to enhance a Dungeons & Dragons game. It also sometimes discusses meta-gaming issues, such as getting along with fellow players.

A regular feature of Dragon has been its "Ecology of ..." articles, in which a D&D monster gets a tongue-in-cheek scientific treatment, explaining how they find food, reproduce, and so forth.

Many of the gaming world's best writers, game designers and artists have published work in the magazine.

In 2002, Paizo Publishing (http://www.paizo.com/) acquired the rights to publish Dragon under license from Wizards of the Coast.

Dungeon is a sister magazine which publishes pre-written playtested adventures to be used in a D&D game.

Awards

• 1986: Origins Award for 'Best Professional Roleplaying Magazine of 1985
• 1990: Origins Award for Best Professional Adventure Gaming Magazine of 1989
• 1994: Origins Award for Best Professional Gaming Magazine of 1993
• 1995: Origins Awards for Best Professional Gaming Magazine of 1994, Origins Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame
• 2004: Origins Award for Best Game Related Periodical 2003

External links

• Dragon Magazine homepage (http://paizo.com/dragon)
• Tholos (http://home.earthlink.net/~dmindex/index.html) - cross-referenced database of Dragon articles