This period from 79 to 83 was a high point for TSR, business was booming and the creative juices were flowing, it’s the period where we get a lot of the classic adventure modules that we’ve been looking at and this growth was reflected in the content and style of Dragon magazine. Almost each issue shows a marked growth and slight visual improvements. 

In this issue the magazine changed font for the interior text as well as column format (from 2 to 3 columns in most pages) making the magazine much easier to read while not sacrificing content. Much of the content in this issue is for Divine Right and other TSR games, however there are always things for D&D, like the Bestiary, featuring the Gaund, designed by Ed Greenwood as well as a whole adventure module entitled The Temple of Poseidon by Paul Reiche III, who would eventually be the co-creator of the Star Control computer games. 

The review section is also particularly interesting as we get two reviews of the World of Greyhawk campaign setting, and curiously Jeff Seiken’s opinion of the volume is pretty much identical to my own when I reviewed it here recently. Lawrence Schick gives a nice response to the reviews, addressing some of the questions that they posed. At the end we get a new comic strip, Pinsom, which looks really professional when compared to Jasmine or Finieous, which have a more amateurish look. Unfortunately we get no Wormy this time, which is the only one of the comics with a comparable quality.