The Dragon 27

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Third anniversary issue (Vol IV, #1), though it should have been last month. 1st (and only) nudity in Dragon comics. Font change for cover lettering.

Contains an 8 page pull out section: GenCon update and schedule

The Dragon Issue #27, Vol. IV,No. 1

title The Dragon publisher TSR date July 1979 editor Tim Kask cover artist not known format Staple-bound magazine pages 48pp plus 8pp pull out GenCon XII Schedule preceded by The Dragon 26 followed by The Dragon 28

front table of contents

CONTENTS

• Features
  • Sorcerer's Scroll: What Judges Guild has done for Dungeons and Dragons, Bob Bledsaw
  • A Quick Look at Dwarves, Lance Harrop
  • Giants in the Earth, Lawrence Schick, Tom Moldvay
    • Durathror
    • Fafhrd
    • The Gray Mouser
    • John Carter of Mars
  • Dragon's Bestiary, Mary Lynn Skirvin
  • Bazaar of the Bizarre, E. Gary Gygax

• Variants
  • Elementals and the Philosopher's Stone, Jeff Swycaffer
  • Tesseracts in Traveller, Gary Jordan
  • Star System Generation in Traveller, Gary Jordan
  • Expanding Imperium, Roberto Camino
  • African Mythos in D&D, Jerome Arkenberg

• Design/Designer's Forum
  • Agincourt: Designer's Notes, James Dunnigan
  • Divine Right design notes, Glenn Rahman, Kenneth Rahman
  • The Emerald Tablet design notes, Jay Facciolo

• Reviews
  • SPI's Agincourt: The Destruction of French Chivalry, Tim Kask
  • The English Civil War by Philmar, Tim Kask
  • MiG Killers by Gamescience, Dave Minch

• Humor
  • The Voyages of E.S. Znutar, Tom Wham
  • Finieous Fingers, J. D. Webster

• Background
  • Agincourt and the Hundred Years War, Steve Alvin

• News
  • Convention Schedule
  • CanGames '79 report, E. Gary Gygax