The last RPG Association Zine of 1983 marks an important moment for the magazine as it greatly expands its size. With a cool cover by the late, great Keith Parkinson, one of the rewards for the membership drive when players who got the most members for the RPGA would win their favorite player characters illustrated by a TSR artist, the magazine is now almost double the size.

This doesn’t mean that the magazine actually has more pages to it, it doesn’t, but the back half of the magazine used to be mainly composed of adverts for RPGA and TSR products and those have now been removed in favor of more articles and content. Which is good. In the editorials you can read that this was a change partly due to reader feedback and internal changes at the zine. This is the last issue published by Kim Eastland who now leaves the magazine, and editor Mary Kirchoff tells us about how the magazine will now (at least for the near future) also start reprinting some hard to find Dragon magazine articles.

The magazine contains the Judges Ranking for 1983 which ranks DMs and it’s fun to see some famous names on that list, such as Douglas Niles, Troy Denning or Tracy Hickman. Articles include a mini-adventure based on the cover drawing in Encounters, some reprints from Dragon, such as the AD&D exam, and articles on Solo RPG playing and High Level adventures for AD&D.