After a light month of August in terms of publications we get to September, in which we have 12 items to cover compared to the 3 in August. New school year, end of summer, it all makes sense, And we start with Dragon #101 with a cool David Martin cover who makes his debut cover for the magazine. 

Inside we have a bunch of either useful or interesting articles, starting out with a State of the Nation address by Gary Gygax in which he talks of new releases and announces future ones, such as Oriental Adventures and future Greyhawk novels that are coming out soon. He does say that it would be hard to match the success of the Dragonlance Chronicles, and he was certainly right about that. 

Roger E. Moore brings us information on the Kender, the Dragonlance equivalent of Halflings/Hobbits but which do have distinctive culture and characteristics which makes them much more distinct from those other two races than Halflings and Hobbits are between themselves, for example. There’s an explanation of the history, society and religion of the Kender and a cool illustration by Larry Elmore. The main attraction here is the Creature Catalog III, another influx of official monsters for your campaigns, but none that have become particularly famous or classic. A good issue.