Dragon Magazine

Dragon Magazine was originally designed to support the roleplaying industry in general and grew into a house organ for TSR.

• It was a periodical that regularly featured Traveller articles.
• The last Dragon Magazine article to feature Traveller content materials was issue 120 in 1987 CE.
• After 1987, many periodicals were increasingly transformed into company magazines only featuring the flagship products of their owners.
• Occasional product reviews still occurred after that date of 1987.

Description (Specifications)

Dragon Magazine featured a number of articles in the early years of Traveller, even publishing them while TSR sci-fi RPG game titles coexisted alongside Trav. The industry later changed.

External Link/s

1. EXTERNAL LINK: DragonDex Complete Dragon Index

Traveller Articles in Dragon Magazine

Issues #1 to #50

Dragon Magazine Articles
Title	Author	Issue	Page	Date	Remarks
Strategy of Survival, The	Edward C. Cooper	Issue 18	3	September 1978	An exploration of the log view of character generation
Asimov Cluster, The	William B. Fawcett	Issue 20	20	November 1978	Exploring detailing scenes from sci-fi novels, including Asimov's Foundation Trilogy
Traveller Navy Wants To Join You, The	R.D. Stuart	Issue 25	20	May 1979	An attempt at Advanced Navy Character generation before High Guard was released
Tesseracts: A Traveller Artifact	Gary Jordan	Issue 27	16	July 1979	An interesting Artifact.
Traveller: Star System Generation	Gary Jordan	Issue 27	18	July 1979	Adds on to our potentially supersedes the earliest LBB scout book.
Traveller Politician, The	Rick Stuart	Issue 32	24	December 1972	New advanced character generation for "Politicians" before Diplomats and Bureaucrats
IBIS: Profit and Peril	Kenneth Burke	Issue 35	7	March 1980	Imperial organization.
Useful Skills	Alexander von Thorn	Issue 35	8	March 1980	Breaking down the Administration skill
'Other' Option, The	Charles Ahner & Rick Stuart	Issue 35	9	March 1980	Expanding options for "Other" character generation
More Clout For Scouts	Anthony Previte & James Cavaliere	Issue 35	10	March 1980	IISS article.
Black Holes!	James Hopkins	Issue 35	11	March 1980	A curious astrographic phenomenon.
Canard, A Traveller Adventure	Roberto Camino	Issue 43	35	November 1980	One of the earliest mentions of the Deep Core Tap.

Issues #51 to #100

Dragon Magazine Articles
Title	Author	Issue	Page	Date	Remarks
Make Your Own Aliens	Roger E. Moore	Issue 51	7	July 1981	Great article on how to make your exotic lifeforms more alien.
Plotting a Course for Choosy Players	Jefferson P. Swycaffer	Issue 51	9	July 1981	Alternative point-buy character generation for Traveller.
New Ideas For Old Ships	Paul M. Crabaugh	Issue 51	11	July 1981	Great article how to make your ships more individual and distinctive.
In Defense of Computers	Paul M. Crabaugh	Issue 51	13	July 1981	Justification for the size and expense of computers in the Traveller universe.
Masers & Cameras	Paul M. Crabaugh	Issue 51	15	July 1981	Advanced weapons, sensors, and recording devices.
Miller Milk Bottle, The	Marc Miller	Issue 51	16	July 1981	A curious gimmick.
Merchants Deserve More, Too	Dennis Matheson	Issue 53	60	September 1981	Expanded character tables for merchant occupations.
Filling In Skills	Jon Mattson	Issue 55	52	November 1981	Rules for gaining experience and switching services.
Anything But Human	Jon Mattson	Issue 58	65	February 1982	Rules and tables for creating non-human PCs and NPCs.
Translating Skitterbuggers Into Traveller	Steve Winter	Issue 59	32	March 1982	Statistics for the characters in "Skitterbugging" fiction (p. 27).
Exonidas Spaceport	Jefferson P. Swycaffer	Issue 59	33-48	March 1982	Neat illustrated ship chart and a full write-up of a star system, its starport, and its local navy.
Robots: Mechanical Sidekicks For Traveller Players	Jon Mattson	Issue 64	46	August 1982	Detailed write up on robots.
Dwarves In Space	Roger E. Moore	Issue 70	27	February 1983	Geonee or Dwarves, you be the judge!
Relief For Traveller Nobility	Paul M. Crabaugh	Issue 73	26	May 1983	Estates and other benefits for Traveller characters with social standing 11+.
Preventing Complacency In Traveller Gaming	Roger E. Moore	Issue 85	77	May 1984	Adding more flavor and variety to Traveller UWP codes.
Interstellar Athletes	Michael Brown	Issue 86	80	June 1984	Rules and tables for an athlete career path.
Luna: Travellers Guide	Marc Miller	Issue 87	75	July 1984	Profile and data on the moon of Terra. Marc has since allowed this article to be shared and otherwise released to the greater public.
Does Anyone Here Speak Aslan?	Joseph Benedetto, Jr.	Issue 91	71	November 1984	The language of the Aslan, now known as Trokh.
Antimissiles and Roundshot	Jefferson P. Swycaffer	Issue 95	76	March 1985	New High Guard weapons for Traveller gaming
Rogues of the Galaxy	Igor Greenwald	Issue 97	71	May 1985	An expanded Traveller class.

Issues #101 to #120

Dragon Magazine Articles
Title	Author	Issue	Page	Date	Remarks
Stellar Diocese, The	Michael Brown	Issue 101	83	September 1985	Basic Clergy character generation.
Active Duty	Jefferson P. Swycaffer	Issue 102	80	October 1985	Adventuring while still active in an occupation.
Of Nobles and Men	Paul Vernon	Issue 103	71	November 1985	Rules and ideas for adventuring on Tarsus.
Hexes and High Guard	Jefferson P. Swycaffer	Issue 104	74	December 1985	Rules for large-scale space battles.
High Tech and Beyond	James Collins	Issue 108	78	April 1986	Globe crackers and smart computers.
Double-Helix Connection, The	Michael Brown	Issue 109	82	May 1986	Mutants and mutations.
Star Cops!	Terrance McInnes	Issue 113	88	May 1986	Detailed career paths for interstellar police.
Aim and Burn	William A. Barton	Issue 116	90	December 1986	Rules for flamethrower weapons.
Space-Age Espionage	John Dunkelberg, Jr.	Issue 120	64	April 1987	Detailed career path for spy characters.

History & Background (Dossier)

Dragon magazine was born in 1976, as an outgrowth of the popularity of Dungeons and Dragons.

• Between 1976 and 2002 Dragon was published by TSR, and then by Wizards of the Coast.
• Although Dragon Magazine was originally designed to support the roleplaying industry in general, it has always been primarily a house organ for TSR's (or more recently Wizards of the Coast's) role-playing games with a particular focus on D&D.
• In 2002, Paizo Publishing acquired the rights to publish Dragon under license from Wizards of the Coast.

References & Contributors (Sources)

This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Dragon_(magazine). The list of authors can be seen in the page history. The text of Wikipedia is available under the Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.