The magazine debuted as The Dragon in June 1976. After twelve issues, Little Wars ceased independent publication and issue 13 was published as part of Dragon issue 22. TSR canceled The Strategic Review after only seven issues the following year, and replaced it with two magazines, Little Wars, which covered miniature wargaming, and The Dragon, which covered role playing games. In short order, however, the popularity and growth of Dungeons & Dragons made it clear that the game had not only separated itself from its wargaming origins, but had launched an entirely new industry unto itself. At the time, roleplaying games were still seen as a subgenre of the wargaming industry, and the magazine was designed not only to support Dungeons & Dragons and TSR's other games, but also to cover wargaming in general. In the early 1980s, The Dragon was mailed in an envelope like this one TSR It is created by Dialect in collaboration with Wizards of the Coast, and restarted the numbering system for issues at No. A digital publication called Dragon+, which replaces the Dragon magazine, launched in 2015. Shortly after the last print issue shipped in mid-August 2007, Wizards of the Coast (part of Hasbro, Inc.), the publication's current copyright holder, relaunched Dragon as an online magazine, continuing on the numbering of the print edition. The final printed issue was #359 in September 2007.
originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. September 2007 (print), December 2013 (digital)ĭragon was one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragonsrole-playing game and associated products Dungeon was the other.
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