Finally The Dragon is now a monthly publication! However, issue 13 isn’t really the most interesting for DnD fans, it has some stuff but nothing really world changing. It starts off with an article to help you calculate the weight of things in DnD with “How Heavy is my Giant” and has another really long article on the Japanese Mythos as beings in the game, in the style of the Deities and Demigods supplement.

More interesting is an article by Rob Kuntz about how Tolkien is definitely and influence in D&D but neither is he the only one, he isn’t even the main influence. This is kind of brought home by the fact that the name Tolkien is misspelled in the article’s title (it’s spelled as “Tolkein”). However Kuntz has a point that Fritz Leiber or Robert E. Howard are just as important influences in the game, particularly as it comes to the “grimdark” setting and magic systems.  

Other than that there’s a collection of tables for demon generation, a “humorous” section on “funny” D&D songs, the usual fiction and comics and another partly humorous article on essentials to take with you when dungeon delving.