Starting off with the announcement that it was going to be a bi-monthly, rather than quarterly, publication from now on, the SR was actually only three issues away from disappearing and changing its name to the much more famous Dragon magazine, which would be published in one way or another down to our day (although the last issue on the app is getting long in the tooth, I wonder…). 

Mysterious adds point towards Dragon magazine with boxes stating “The Dragon is coming” and no explanation. What we do get for D&D fans is a new class in the Illusionist, a sub-class of Magic-User, using mainly illusion magic with some spells all their own and eventual access to M-U magic. So in this issue we get both Illusionists and the description of some of their spells, which would be staples of D&D, such as Wall of Fog or Change Self.

Other than the Illusionist we get a new creature with  a stat block for the Clay Golem and a new magical item with Ioun stones, based on Jack Vance’s story Morreion. Other than that, the magazine covers other games, with a lot of space given to Empire of the Petal Throne, another early TTRPG by M.A.R. Baker, the guy who gave us the concept of the crit on a roll of 20, but also a neo-nazi… so… you know… win some, lose some, swings and roundabouts and all that.