The Dragon 11
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The first Dragon confirmed to have been sent out with a mailing cover.1 Includes another Tom Wham game, Snit's Revenge, as a center insert.
TSR was not afraid to air dirty laundry in the early days. A good example is issue 11 of The Dragon, which opens with an editorial by Gary Gygax defending TSR's right to protect its intellectual property.
The editorial is of historical interest because it confirms that Gygax offered Dungeons & Dragons to Don Lowry of Guidon Games for publication. It also contains a Miniature Figurines, Ltd. advertisement for some of the first D&D licensed lead miniatures, a set of demons which closely resemble the drawings in the newly published Monster Manual.
The Dragon Issue #11, Vol. II,No. 5
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CONTENTS
- Feature
- View from the Telescope Wondering Which End is Which—a guest editorial on TSR policies and critics, E. Gary Gygax
- How Do You Top That Thing--Metagaming's Ogre; tactics, tips, etc., Tony Watson
- Sea Magic—the newest Fafhrd & Gray Mouser tale, Fritz Leiber
- Eleventh Hour Shopper—what to get your beloved wargamer
- Quarterstaff Fighting Rules, James M. Ward
- D&D Variant
- Brawling—The "Easy" Way Out in D&D—A non-fatal method for PC's or NPC's to settle their differences, Robert J. Kuntz
- Design/Designer's Forum
- The Play's The Thing—in praise of fantasy role-playing, Thomas Filmore
- Seal of the Imperium—EPT column by the author, M.A.R. Barker
- Snit Erratz
- The Sorcerer's Scroll—a new D&D column, Robert J. Kuntz
- Dragon Mirth
- On the Derivation of Snit Sub-species, J. Ward
- Wormy
- Finieous Fingers
- Westfinster Wargamers
- Reviews
- NBC's The Hobbit
From Gygax's editorial:
D&D was designed and developed when Guidon Games was a thriving entity. As Lowry's "Miniatures Rules Editor", I urged him to immediately publish the game, for I viewed it as something really new and different and envisioned it as having great potential—just how great I must admit I did not conceive at that time. Don turned it down.
