Let’s start with some sad news, I just learned that TTRPG and Video Gaming pioneer Jennell Jaquays passed away today. We’ve had some of her work featured here (the illustration for the cover for Dragon #21 for example) but most of her work is still to be covered in the future (she wrote and co-wrote modules for TSR later in the 80s, for example). She was in the hobby from the start, publishing fanzines and unofficial modules for D&D that go all the way back to the mid-70s. With her goes a bit of the history we are covering here. 

Moving on to Dragon #94, we have a classic Clyde Caldwell cover wrapping what is a pretty great issue, full of juicy content for D&D fans. Gary Gygax brings us some rules changes for the Ranger class, concerning rules for tracking. Katharine Kerr covers the logistics of food in adventuring and Ed Greenwood gives us the ecology of the Chimera. 

If this was all it would be a good issue, but there is more. Fans of Dragonlance will not want to miss Tracy Hickman’s two pages on the history of the Knights of Solamnia while the centrepiece of the issue is the Creature Catalog II bringing 16 new monsters designed for AD&D adventures. There’s a good variety of beasties here, although no particularly classic monsters. Loads of content here!