The History of Dungeons & Dragons

573. Various Authors – Dragon #126 (October 1987) So we come to the month of October 1987, and with it we reach one of the most iconic of Dragon magazine covers, this time by Daniel Horne and it is a fitting cover for a special issue on the undead…

573. Various Authors - Dragon #126 (October 1987)

572.1 Short stories in Gary Gygax – Night Arrant (1987) Visit the post for more.

572.1 Short stories in Gary Gygax - Night Arrant (1987)

572. Gary Gygax – Night Arrant (1987) Sorry I’ve been taking so long in updating this project, but I did get a bit stuck reading through Night Arrant, something which might happen as I hit some duller or harder going novel as we …

572. Gary Gygax - Night Arrant (1987)

571.1. Articles in Polyhedron #37 (September 1987) Visit the post for more.

571.1. Articles in Polyhedron #37 (September 1987)

571. Various Authors – Polyhedron #37 (September 1987) As usual, every two months, we get the RPGA magazine, Polyhedron, aimed at the competitive side of TTRPGs, but with some good extra articles on rules and sundry game optimizations. This issue is, u…

571. Various Authors - Polyhedron #37 (September 1987)

570.1. Stephen Fabian and Bruce Heard – Sample Illustrated pages in GAZ 3: The Principalities of Glantri (1987) Visit the post for more.

570.1. Stephen Fabian and Bruce Heard - Sample Illustrated pages in GAZ 3: The Principalities of Glantri (1987)

570. Bruce Heard – GAZ 3: The Principalities of Glantri (1987) Further fleshing out the world of Mystara (before it even had that name) the third Gazetteer in the series brings us the magocracy of Glantri. A collection of principalities ruled by aristocra…

570. Bruce Heard - GAZ 3: The Principalities of Glantri (1987)

569.1. Various Artists- Maps and Illustrations from C6: The Official RPGA Tournament Handbook (1987) Visit the post for more.

569.1. Various Artists- Maps and Illustrations from C6: The Official RPGA Tournament Handbook (1987)

569. Various Authors – C6: The Official RPGA Tournament Handbook (1987) Looking for all intents and purposes like an adventure module, C6: The Official RPGA Tournament Handbook is actually a bit more than that. Firstly it has not one, but two adventures, written by Dan…

569. Various Authors - C6: The Official RPGA Tournament Handbook (1987)

It's crazy to think about the amount of official content that was coming regularly for D&D compared to today. So much quality stuff in print.

568.1. Various Authors – Adventures in Dungeon #7 (September/October 1987) Visit the post for more.

568.1. Various Authors - Adventures in Dungeon #7 (September/October 1987)

568. Various Authors – Dungeon #7 (September/October 1987) We reach the second year of Dungeon Magazine and this time we get some more variety than usual in terms of adventures that come packaged in the issue. In the first year the magazine was heavily bia…

568. Various Authors - Dungeon #7 (September/October 1987)

567.1. Various Authors – Sample pages from Forgotten Realms Campaign Set (1987) Visit the post for more.

567.1. Various Authors - Sample pages from Forgotten Realms Campaign Set (1987)

567. Ed Greenwood, Jeff Grubb et al. – Forgotten Realms Campaign Set (1987) A really important item that somehow slipped through the cracks on my list, the Forgotten Realms Campaign Set is probably the most important campaign setting since Gary Gygax’s 1980’s W…

567. Ed Greenwood, Jeff Grubb et al. - Forgotten Realms Campaign Set (1987)

566.1. Stephen Sullivan – Maps for N5: Under Ilefarn (1987) Visit the post for more.

566.1. Stephen Sullivan - Maps for N5: Under Ilefarn (1987)

565.1. George Barr – Illustrations for Dragonlance Adventures (1987) Visit the post for more.

565.1. George Barr - Illustrations for Dragonlance Adventures (1987)

565. Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis – Dragonlance Adventures (1987) As the Dragonlance modules came out (DL1-12 came out between 1984-86, four more will come out in the future), each of them would contain some information about the world of Krynn where players woul…

565. Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis - Dragonlance Adventures (1987)

564.1. Articles, illustrations and adverts in Dragon #125 (September 1987) Visit the post for more.

564.1. Articles, illustrations and adverts in Dragon #125 (September 1987)

564. Various Authors – Dragon #125 (September 1987) With a cover that takes us back to a period centuries before the age of Chivalry, the main feature and collection of articles in this issue is about that very age, when stories about King Arth…

564. Various Authors - Dragon #125 (September 1987)

563.1. John and Laura Lakey – Illustrations for Greyhawk Adventures #3: Master Wolf (1987) Visit the post for more.

563.1. John and Laura Lakey - Illustrations for Greyhawk Adventures #3: Master Wolf (1987)

563. Rose Estes – Greyhawk Adventures #4: The Price of Power (1987) Although listed as the fourth book in the Greyhawk Adventures series, it’s more helpful to think of this as the second book in the Rose Estes’ Mika series, as the first two volumes were…

563. Rose Estes - Greyhawk Adventures #4: The Price of Power (1987)