Editing Dragon Magazine (section)

==History==
When [[TSR]] began publishing their first in-house magazine, "The Strategic Review", in 1975, it covered [[wargames]] and their new [[role-playing game]], [[Dungeons & Dragons]], in the same magazine. However, it became very evident that demand for D&D was much higher than for the wargaming part, and so the Strategic Review was cancelled in 1976, having only published 7 issues. In June 1976, they relaunched their magazines with seperate titles; the miniature wargaming "Little Wars" magazine, and the D&D focused Dragon magazine, initially called "The Dragon". However, such was the popularity of D&D that Little Wars was cancelled after only 12 issues - its 13th and final issue was amalgamated into Dragon Magazine issue #22. The Dragon would be renamed simply "Dragon" in July 1980 and finally attain its now-recognizable title of "Dragon Magazine" in November 1987, only to be changed back to "Dragon" in June 2000.

TSR published Dragon until they were bought out by [[Wizards of the Coast]] in 1997. Legal issues led to a five-month gap between issues #236 and #237, but TSR continued to formally publish Dragon until January 2000. Whilst TSR was publishing Dragon, it contained material for all three editions of D&D put out by TSR; Basic, and [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st and 2nd edition.

Once it was formally bought out by WotC, Dragon content switched over exclusively to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]] content; for the two years in which WotC was publishing it, it often served as a way to convert AD&D material to 3rd edition. They licensed it to [[Paizo]] in September 2002; these new authors tied Dragon more closely to Dungeon by including articles supporting and promoting its major multi-issue adventures such as the Age of Worms and Savage Tide. Class Acts, monthly one or two-page articles offering ideas for developing specific character classes, were also introduced by Paizo.

When [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition]] was on the horizon, WotC chose not to renew Paizo's license - instead, they decided to change it to an internally produced online, PDF-format download digital magazine, which would cross-pollinate with their planned online gaming medium "D&D Insider". Announcements of the end of the physical magazines were released in April 2007, and the final issues were printed in September 2007. The first four issues of the new online format, #364 through #367, were published on WotC's website free of charge in June 2008. Starting with issue #368, full issues were only available to D&D Insider subscribers.

In the September 2013 issue of Dragon (#427) an article by Wizards of the Coast game designer and editor Chris Perkins announced that both Dragon and its sibling publication Dungeon would be going on hiatus starting January 2014 pending the release of Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition. The final online version released was Issue #430 in December 2013.