The last paper issue of Dragon Magazine will start hitting the stands on August 29. With a publication of history of over 30 years, the periodical has been an indispensable supplement for a couple generations of role-playing gamers. With the advent of the online MMORPG Dungeons & Dragons: Stormreach and the announcement of the Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition for next year, current owners Wizards Of The West Coast have decided that Dragon will better serve the gaming community as an online supplement.

My own collection of issues of Dragon Magazine begins in the early 1980s with Issue 39, and lasted (with a few skips) for almost seven years until about Issue 115. Issues of Dragon Magazine were always very good reading material; the fantasy fiction was almost always good and the range of non-fiction topics covered within the magazine’s pages (at least when Gary Gygax and Jake Jaquet were publishers) was always surprisingly wide. I can recall discussions of whether kinetic energy or momentum caused damage in a fall; articles about Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology; and summaries of “the story so far” for famous Marvel and DC Comics characters.

Good-bye paper Dragon. We will miss you.