We finally reach the last issue of The Strategic Review, right at the start of the magazine, Tim Kask in the “In the Cauldron” column, explains what will happen. The sudden success of Dungeons & Dragons and to a lesser extent Empire of the Petal Throne have not only taken over most of the SR magazine, but they are threatening to displace traditional miniature war games. As such Strategic Review will become Dragon magazine, solely dedicated to Fantasy and Science Fiction gaming, while another magazine, Little Wars, will come out catering to that other war games market. So, the next issue will be Dragon Magazine #1! 

There are a bunch of articles of interest to D&D players here, a Gary Gygax article on the logic and influences behind D&D’s Magic System, an article by Joe Fischer on how to build a homebase town for adventure parties, three new items and two new monsters (Denebian Slime Devil, which is actually a Star Trek reference, and the Catoblepas), and finally another article by Gygax on how to be a good DM, mainly about how the DM should take his time in levelling characters. He describes people who already have characters at level 40ish, which is frankly crazy for a game that had come out 2 years earlier.

It really makes sense that The Strategic Review comes to an end by this time, D&D has grown much faster and further than TSR would have thought possible, and as it goes so does the company, it has by now become their calling card. There is a need and a demand for more D&D content and therefore a magazine which is double the size of Strategic Review solely dedicated to D&D makes all sense.