Lighter than the 2 previous issues on Dungeons & Dragons content, it still has some good stuff and it clearly shows how D&D is taking over TSR as the most successful product that they are promoting. There’s an editorial by Gary Gygax on how much fans are enjoying D&D and how a malicious negative review of the game was inundated with negative feedback on the reviewer, and there is also the results of a reader’s poll on what game setting they are most interested in with Fantasy setting coming on top with 8.5 out of 10. The next most popular period was “Ancient” with 6.5, showing how ahead Fantasy settings were.

As content for D&D you get an article with 9 new monsters to be added to the game, with some of the most iconic being the Shambling Mound, the Lurker Above or the Naga. That is it in terms of game content, but there is also something which would have been very useful as the game was starting up: a listing for people running D&D games looking for new players. Someone also announces in this section that they have invented a way to keep track of your character in paper… sounds suspiciously like an early Character Sheet!

Lastly there was a satirical article by Wesley D. Ives on the different kinds of players and DMs in D&D, with stat blocks and everything, it’s an amusing article and it shows that even nearly 50 years later things haven’t changed that much.