Dragon Magazine
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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 if 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.
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 | TBD | TBD |
| Asimov Cluster, The | William B. Fawcett | Issue 20 | 20 | TBD | TBD |
| Traveller Navy Wants To Join You, The | R.D. Stuart | Issue 25 | 20 | TBD | TBD |
| Tesseracts: A Traveller Artifact | Gary Jordan | Issue 27 | 16 | TBD | An interesting Artifact. |
| Traveller: Star System Generation | Gary Jordan | Issue 27 | 18 | TBD | Adds on to our potentially supersedes the earliest LBB scout book. |
| Traveller Politician, The | Rick Stuart | Issue 32 | 24 | TBD | TBD |
| IBIS: Profit and Peril | Kenneth Burke | Issue 35 | 7 | TBD | Imperial organization. |
| Useful Skills | Alexander von Thorn | Issue 35 | 8 | TBD | TBD |
| 'Other' Option, The | Charles Ahner & Rick Stuart | Issue 35 | 9 | TBD | TBD |
| More Clout For Scouts | Anthony Previte & James Cavaliere | Issue 35 | 10 | TBD | IISS article. |
| Black Holes! | James Hopkins | Issue 35 | 11 | TBD | A curious astrographic phenomenon. |
| Canard, A Traveller Adventure | Roberto Camino | Issue 43 | 35 | TBD | 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 | TBD | Great article on how to make your exotic lifeforms more alien. |
| Plotting a Course for Choosy Players | Jefferson P. Swycaffer | Issue 51 | 9 | TBD | TBD |
| New Ideas For Old Ships | Paul M. Crabaugh | Issue 51 | 11 | TBD | Great article how to make your ships more individual and distinctive. |
| In Defense of Computers | Paul M. Crabaugh | Issue 51 | 13 | TBD | TBD |
| Masers & Cameras | Paul M. Crabaugh | Issue 51 | 15 | TBD | Advanced weapons, sensors, and recording devices. |
| Miller Milk Bottle, The | Marc Miller | Issue 51 | 16 | TBD | A curious gimmick. |
| Merchants Deserve More, Too | Dennis Matheson | Issue 53 | 60 | TBD | TBD |
| Filling In Skills | Jon Mattson | Issue 55 | 52 | TBD | TBD |
| Anything But Human | Jon Mattson | Issue 58 | 65 | TBD | TBD |
| Translating Skitterbuggers Into Traveller | Steve Winter | Issue 59 | 32 | TBD | TBD |
| 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 | TBD | Detailed write up on robots. |
| Dwarves In Space | Roger E. Moore | Issue 70 | 27 | TBD | Geonee or Dwarves, you be the judge! |
| Relief For Traveller Nobility | Paul M. Crabaugh | Issue 73 | 26 | TBD | TBD |
| Preventing Complacency In Traveller Gaming | Roger E. Moore | Issue 85 | 77 | TBD | TBD |
| Interstellar Athletes | Michael Brown | Issue 86 | 80 | TBD | TBD |
| Luna: Travellers Guide | Marc Miller | Issue 87 | 75 | TBD | 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 | TBD | The language of the Aslan, now known as Trokh. |
| Antimissiles and Roundshot | Jefferson P. Swycaffer | Issue 95 | 76 | TBD | TBD |
| Rogues of the Galaxy | Igor Greenwald | Issue 97 | 71 | TBD | TBD |
Issues #101 to #120
| Dragon Magazine Articles | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Author | Issue | Page | Date | Remarks |
| Stellar Diocese, The | Michael Brown | Issue 101 | 83 | TBD | TBD |
| Active Duty | Jefferson P. Swycaffer | Issue 102 | 80 | TBD | TBD |
| Of Nobbles and Men | Paul Vernon | Issue 103 | 71 | TBD | TBD |
| Hexes and High Guard | Jefferson P. Swycaffer | Issue 104 | 74 | TBD | TBD |
| High Tech and Beyond | James Collins | Issue 108 | 78 | TBD | TBD |
| Double-Helix Connection, The | Michael Brown | Issue 109 | 82 | TBD | TBD |
| Star Cops! | Terrance McInnes | Issue 113 | 88 | TBD | TBD |
| Aim and Burn | William A. Barton | Issue 116 | 90 | TBD | TBD |
| Space-Age Espionage | John Dunkelberg, Jr. | Issue 120 | 64 | TBD | TBD |
External Link/s
- EXTERNAL LINK: DragonDex Complete Dragon Index
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)
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- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science