With a cover featuring what seems to be two naked men humping a couple of frogs, this is, as the editorial points out, a different Dragon magazine. To start with it goes up to 100 pages long, it has more full color pages and last but not least it changed the font to Baskerville which actually makes it much easier to read. Thanks from 40 years in the future, Kim Mohan.

In terms of articles this is a heavy issue in what concerns AD&D and D&D content, the slow but sure skewing towards covering nearly only D&D stuff is pretty clear in this issue. There are a couple of articles covering Traveller and Top Secret, but other than generalist miniature articles or game reviews, this is a Dungeoncentric magazine. 

We start off with the Duelist NPC class, Gygax on the Inner Planes of existence, complete with diagrams and a cut-out cube, an article on how to run one on one D&D by Katharine Kerr, we continue “The Ecology of…” column with the Catoblepas being covered. Other articles speak of the Half-Ogre, equipment damage and best of all 100 “Non-Violent Magic Items” which is essentially a randomized 1d100 list of what we now know as magical trinkets, some great ideas for items in this article which would still be useful today! Other articles cover the thief’s climb ability and the Wish spell and at the end we get the comics. This month What’s New with Phil and Dixie basically pokes fun at Beedle & Grim style luxury role play products long before there was such a thing… Phil Foglio has the gift of prophecy.