An interesting issue of Dragon for several reasons but for the purposes of charting the history of D&D none of them is more important than the last “From the Sorcerer’s Scroll”, what used to be Gary Gygax’s usual column in the early days of the magazine.

In this last column, Gygax explains where he has been and how he was let go from TSR, how he hasn’t contributed to the creative efforts of TSR since October 1985 and how he completely left the company one year later in October 1986. He also talks about his new endeavour, New Infinities , a short-lived game company through which he published some stuff that we will cover here in the future, namely the remaining Greyhawk novels featuring Gord, the Rogue. I know it isn’t official TSR material, but it would feel wrong not to cover stories set in the original setting for AD&D by the game’s own creator, so I’ll do that! (I’m now finishing Sea of Death which will be covered here soon).

The remainder of the magazine covers the usual stuff, with a couple of articles on Oriental Adventures, one on monsters inspired by African Mythology, as well as new spells for druids. Lastly there’s something which might not look at first sight D&D related, but the review of the Might & Magic computer game gives us a glimpse of what future D&D PC RPGs will look like towards the end of the decade.