We reach November 1983 and we are deep in the D&D content explosion, just this month we have some 16 items to cover, so let’s start with Dragon magazine for the month. With a fun Jack Crane Thanksgiving cover, this isn’t the most content filled magazine, at least not particularly interesting content, but there is still stuff to talk about.

We start off with a fun article on the Ecology of the Treant, but not being setting specific it’s of relative usefulness to the D&D player, still it’s a fun little article also notable for being one of the few authored by a woman, Susan Lawson. More useful is the article on Magic Resistance and how it works in the game. Always good to have articles clarifying rules that were left a bit up in the air in the original manuals. 

Other articles cover Gremlins and Saint-like characters and Lew Pulsipher contributes two articles one on how classical medieval battle tactics are kind of useless in a world with griffins, dragons and magical casters and another on basic principles of adventuring. The Wormy and What’s New with Phil and Dixie comics tie up the issue.