Best of the Dragon Magazine, Vol 1 

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Great video! I have this one on my shelf as well, which I purchased waaaaaaaay back in 1981. Much cherished, and I would say was greatly responsible for my interest in the early days of D&D.

I would be interested in seeing the other volumes of The Best of the Dragon :-)

Amazing how relevant some of those articles are all these years later. You have a gold mine of fun there!

What a great find, I have so many good memoires of this magazine. In the UK it was very difficult to find, we only managed to get them from a comic book seller at our weekly market. I still have a couple of issues languishing in my attic, I'll have to root them out. Thanks for this. ☺

Almost all of this content is available on DVD, they put it out a while ago, but you can still find copies I'm sure.

I would be interested in seeing the other volumes

TSR did a revised printing of this and Vol 2 a few years later that cuts out all the old advertising because there were apparently some problems with regard to reprinting that and edits in additional art from some of the articles that had not been featured prior or art from the same magazine. The articles are reordered a bit and I'm not 100% sure that some were dropped dropped or substituted. You can tell these versions because the price in the top corner in$3.95 and it says Revised Edition under it. The back cover also features and add for Unearthed Arcana on Vol. 1 and Battlesystem first ed on 2.

Great idea for a video. Your commentary adds a lot to my appreciation for a favored product. I have long cherished my own copy of Vol.1 as it contains material from the period when design-it-yourself was encouraged. So many awesome original ideas (and a few less than awesome) are shared in these pages along with some glimpses into the thoughts of the game's creators - key to my understanding the intent of concepts which were often ambiguously presented in the original edition game. Thanks!

The ads were just the same old contemporaneous Dragon mag ads

I have every single copy of The Dragon, as well as Dungeon magazines. Before all the hipsters started thinking D&D was cool(2015), you could get these for very reasonable prices, often in large lots at a major discount.

Note on nomenclature: The magazine was originally titled The Dragon, and later retitled Dragon Magazine, dropping the definite article. In keeping with this, the first two Best of volumes are titled Best of The Dragon I and II, as they draw from the early issues prior to the title change, and vol III-V are titled Best of Dragon as they draw from later issues.

Found this video, very entertaining. Thank you

My first Dragon magazine purchase.... Back in 81'.

Do more of this PLEEEAASSEE

I would definitely be interested in seeing more, this stuff is fascinating!

Very cool! So many memories. :)

I would very much be interested in you reading everything in there. I imagine that's quite an undertaking, so reading a passage from it would be AMAZING.

2:39 first time I have ever seen a Ral Partha ad., I only learnt about Ral Partha a couple of days ago. Strange for someone who has been painting Warhammer and remembers Citadel miniatures in the 80s uk.

thanks for all the interesting information!

Metamorphosis Alpha is pretty much the father of Gamma World.

Awsome, where did you get these?

You didn't use crayon to fill in your dice crevices? Blasphemy!

Gracias por esta reseña.

These are SO gorgeous.

Monster Gems!!