Best of The Dragon #1 - RPGnet d20 RPG Game Index

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Title	Best of The Dragon #1
Editor	Kim Mohan
Book Type	Magazine	Rank: [ 2194 / 2312 ]
Genre	Fantasy
Setting	Generic

Edition Info	TSR (1980)	ISBN: 0-88038-720-3
System	D&D / Original	Parent: [ D&D / OSR ]

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Dragon Magazine was originally called, simply, The Dragon.

This entry describes best of issue 1 of The Dragon.

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P.	Title	Type	System	Author	Rating	‡
4	Planes: The Concepts of Spacial, Temporal, and Physical Relationships in D&D	Background: Setting	D&D / Original 1	Gary Gygax	4.71	‡
6	How Green Was My Mutant	Other Rules	Metamorphosis Alpha 1	Gary Gygax	4.23	‡
7	Some Ideas Missed in Metamorphosis Alpha	Stats: Items	Metamorphosis Alpha 1	James M. Ward	4.71	‡
8	An Alternate Beginnng Sequence For Metamorphosis: Alpha	Editorial	Metamorphosis: Alpha 1	Guy W. McLimore Jr.	4.71	‡
10	Hints for D&D Judges	Background: General	D&D / Original 1	Joe Fischer	4.56	‡
11	The Play's the Thing	Player Advice	D&D / Original 1	Thomas Filmore	4.56	‡
12	Languages or, Could you repeat that in Auld Wormish?	Background: General	D&D / Original 1	Lee Gold	4.6	‡
14	The Development of Towns in D&D	GM Advice	D&D / Original 1	Tony Watson	4.85	‡
16	Design Forum: Let There Be a Method to Your Madness	GM Advice	D&D / Original 1	Richard Gilbert	4.71	‡
18	Design Forum: Designing for Unique Wilderness Encounters	Other Rules	D&D / Original 1	Daniel Clifton	4.56	‡
19	Design Forum: The Total Person in Metamorphosis Alpha	Other Rules	Metamorphosis Alpha 1	James M. Ward	4.71	‡
21	How Heavy is My Giant?	Other Rules	D&D / Basic 1	Shlump Da Orc	4.74	‡
22	Notes from a Semi-Successful D&D Player	Player Advice	D&D / Basic 1	James M. Ward	4.56	‡
23	From the Sorcerer's Scroll: Tolkien in Dungeons & Dragons	Editorial	D&D / Original 1	Robert J. Kuntz	4.71	‡
24	The Meaning of Law and Chaos in Dungeons & Dragons	Editorial	D&D / Original 1	Gary Gygax	4.56	‡
26	Gary Gygax on Dungeons and Dragons	Information: Design Notes	D&D / Original 1	Gary Gygax	4.71	‡
27	The Dungeons & Dragons Magic System	Information: Design Notes	D&D / Original 1	Gary Gygax	4.85	‡
29	Monster Reference Table Addition: Hostile & Benign Creatures	Other Rules	D&D / Original 1	Welsey D. Ives	4.47	‡
30	Miscellaneous Treasure	Stats: Items	D&D / Original 1	Gary Jaquet	4.41	‡
31	Desert Cities of Mars	Background: Setting	Generic	James M. Ward	5.13	‡
32	Monkish Combat in the Arena of Promotion	Other Rules	D&D / Original 1	John M. Seaton	4.56	‡
34	Design Forum: Some Thoughts on the Speed of a Lightning Bolt	Information: General	Generic	James M. Ward	4.56	‡
35	What to Do When the Dog Eats Your Dice, or Some Other Calamity Befalls You Twenty Minutes Before the Game Club Gets to Your Plac	GM Advice	Generic	Omar Kwalish	4.71	‡
37	Excerpt from an Interview with a Rust Monster	Editorial	Generic	Michael McCrery	5.29	‡
40	Sturmgeschutz and Sorcery, or How Effective is a Panzerfaust Against a Troll, Heinz?	Miniatures	Generic	Gary Gygax	5.15	‡
43	Illusionists!	Other Rules	D&D / Original 1	Peter Aronson	5	‡
45	Illusionist Additions	Core Rules	D&D / Original 1	Peter Aronson	5.2	‡
46	Tombs & Crypts	Other Rules	D&D / Original 1	James M. Ward	4.41	‡
47	Hobbits and Thieves in Dungeon!	Other Rules	Board Game 1	Gary Gygax	4.85	‡
48	Statistics Regarding Classes: (Additions) - Bards	Core Rules	D&D / Original 1	Doug Schwegman	4.71	‡
50	Rangers	Other Rules	D&D / Original 1	Joe Fischer	5	‡
51	Wizard Research Rules	Other Rules	D&D / Original 1	Charles Preston Goforth Jr.	4.56	‡
53	Witchcraft Supplement for Dungeons & Dragons	Other Rules	D&D / Original 1		5	‡
58	Solo Dungeon Adventures	Adventure	D&D / Original 1	Gary Gygax	5.42	‡
61	Lycanthropy - The Progess of the Disease	Other Rules	D&D / Basic 1	Gregory Rihn	4.71	‡
64	The Japanese Mythos	Stats: Deities	D&D / Original 1	Jerome Arkenberg	4.56	‡
66	Random Monsters	Other Rules	D&D / Original 1	Paul Montgomery Crabaugh	4.41	‡
67	D&D Option: Demon Generation	Other Rules	D&D / Basic 1	Jon Pickens	4.71	‡

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6 / 10	Calstaff	1e AD&D is my jam, but I love looking back in the past at the roots of D&D and how players and referees saw the game as it was developing. Some of the articles here are still relevant to this day--timeless gems for those who seek them out.

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#	Title	System	Publisher	Released	Stock	Status
1	*Best of The Dragon #1*	D&D / Original 1	TSR	1980		---

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