An issue mainly dedicated to Druids, this would have been a pretty indispensable magazine for those playing that character class, in fact, this issue not only covers all things Druid, from new cantrips to rites of ascension within the druidic orders, but it also covers a lot of Druid adjacent themes, such as the Beastmaster NPC or woodland creatures such as the Korred, as well as introducing new ones, like the Uldra and the Anchu, giant Capybara, Leshy, Wendigo or the Wild Halflings. 

So this issue has a lot of interest for druids as well as extensive new bestiary entries. However, no single article in the magazine is more interesting to those charting the history of the game than an unassuming article, with no illustration or fanfare stuck in the middle pages, entitled The Game Wizards: My Dinner with Elminster.

This last article, by Jeff Grubb, details plans for the upcoming campaign setting, a little thing called the Forgotten Realms, and together with detailing plans for a box-set, new modules and novels, it also lets us know that it will be the default setting for Second Edition AD&D which is seemingly just around the corner, which will mean that Greyhawk is going to be left somewhat behind (which is kind of natural as the creator of that setting, Gary Gygax, had been out of TSR for over a year now).  It also lets us know that the Oriental Adventures are actually set in the FR as well, in the continent of Kara-Tur and that some of the modules already released (such as Bloodstone Pass and Desert of Desolation series) had been set in the FR all along.