Dragon Magazine Article Reviews.
Dungeons and Dragons and TTRPGs as a whole have gone through a great amount of changes over the years. I would like to understand how the game developed more and what odd little tidbits have existed from time to time. Rejecting the "Whig History" of ttrpgs where the belief of newer = better and that progress is linear.
My next few posts will likely be a collection of these reviews of old dragon magazine articles of people sharing how they handled certain aspects of the game. I won't review every bit of the magazines as many are hard focused into the wargaming side of nerdy hobbies and that is so far out of the scope of most tables experiences that I don't think it will get very far in understanding.
The first review will be an early attempt at a skill system written by Wesley D Ives published in Dragon Magazine #1.