One of the ways in which we see how TSR and particularly D&D is growing in the early 80s and getting larger budgets and a wider level of fame is the quality of art that they are able to afford and attract to their projects. Some 5 years earlier, in 1976, D&D material still had extremely amateurish (though charming) art, and now you are getting magazine covers by legendary fantasy artist Boris Vallejo.

Inside the magazine you get a long interview with Boris with plenty of color reproductions of his paintings. In terms of D&D content you get a really long trio of articles on Clerics at the top of the magazine, and a Sage Advice column dedicated to answering questions on Clerics. You also get appreciations of the original blue cover box of Basic D&D and the newish replacement red box by both J. Eric Holmes and Tom Moldvay, the writers of both editions. 

For those who, like me, are particularly into lore, you get the longest article on Greyhawk since the publication of the World of Greyhawk book, with a Leomund’s Tiny Hut about how to determine the origin of players in the Flanaess and how to determine which languages they might speak with an explanation of the languages of the world. Gygax shows up to give us some racial profiling on the “races of Greyhawk” which, while not being offensive, is a bit unnecessary.