“Gamers face challenges many other hobbyists don’t,” Scott writes, “We are often ostracized - seen as nerds at best, demonic at worst. It is impossible to grasp the appeal of Dragon without understanding D&D, its origins, and its demographic. Among role-players, the term is synonymous with the entire RPG genre. No other role-playing game even comes close to the impact of either of those two things,” writes Dragon’s last editor-in-chief, Erik Mona, via email. “D&D has the strength of the D&D brand and player network behind it. In September of 2007, however, the magazine shut down, transitioning to an online-only format. Scott, a freelance writer and contributor to the magazine, in an email interview, “It told gamers that others thought and felt like them, enjoyed the hobby they enjoyed, and saw the fun in imagination, reading, and killing monsters… It enabled a sense of community.” Passing into the care of three different publishers over the last three decades, the editors of Dragon saw 359 issues to print, five Dragon Annuals and eight compilations, along with 150 issues of Dungeon, its companion magazine. “ Dragon was a messageboard before there were messageboards,” writes Amber E. Only within the pages of Dragon could D&D’s players get definitive answers to questions like, “Can a wall of force stop a sphere of annihilation?” or “How does a sword of wounding affect a tarrasque?” (#250) from the mouth of the game’s R&D staff. Upon its inception in 1975, Dragon was the first magazine to endow its readers with a voice that would shape the development of the nascent role-playing game (RPG) phenomenon. For thirty-one years, Dragon served as the herald of Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), whose players totaled between two million and six million in 2000. Blitz Armored Things 40GRIDĭragon enjoyed a readership like no other in magazine history.
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