Dragon #72 is a magazine issue released in April 1983.
Content[]
Features[]
The following feature articles appeared in this issue:
| Title | Page | Author | Rules |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Chivalrous Cavalier | 6 | Gary Gygax | AD&D 1e |
| The Ecology Of the Piercer | 12 | Chris Elliott & Richard Edwards | AD&D 1e |
| Gems Galore | 14 | Ed Greenwood | AD&D 1e |
| The Real Barbarians | 24 | Katharine Kerr | |
| The PBM Scene | 30 | Michael Gray | |
| File 13: The Game Inventor's Game | 39 | Tom Wham | File 13 |
| The True Story of File 13 | 47 | Kim Mohan | File 13 |
| Duh Jock | 50 | Jon Mattson | AD&D 1e |
| Spells For Everyone | 51 | L. Creede Lambard & Jerry Stoddard | AD&D 1e |
| Everything We Think You Need To Know About Sex... | 52 | Roger E. Moore | AD&D 1e |
| Level Titles Don't Do Justice | 54 | John T. Sapienza, Jr. | AD&D 1e |
| A New Name? It's Elementary! | 56 | Jay Treat | AD&D 1e |
| Spy's Advice | 60 | Merle Rasmussen & Allan Hammack | Top Secret |
| Castles By Carroll IV: The Tower of London | 62 | Mike Carroll | |
| Exploring Some Map Manuals | 69 | Lewis Pulsipher |
Development and release[]
Development[]
Kim Mohan served as Editor-in-Chief.
Release[]
Dragon #72 was released by TSR in April 1983 for $3.00 US.
Reception and influence[]
Critical reception[]
This issue was rated #6 in The Top 10 Issues of Dragon, Dragon #359 (Sep 2007).
Influence on other works[]
The Ecology of the Piercer, by Chris Elliott and Richard Edwards, was reprinted from the sci-fi and fantasy roleplaying magazine Dragonlords, and established the life cycle and mollusc-like anatomy of the creature going forward. The article was praised in a reader's letter in Dragon #75 (Jul 1983). Even more significantly, the article established the "Ecology of" article series, which printed 157 such articles until the closer of the magazine's print series in 2007. In 2025, RPG blog Grognardia described the series as foundational to the "Silver Age" of D&D.[1]
External links[]
- Dragon #72 at RPG.net
References[]
- ↑ The Articles of Dragon: "The Ecology of the Piercer". 2025-01-21. Grognardia.
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