Editing Wizards Three (section)

==The Basics==
A long-running gag by [[Ed Greenwood]] in the days of [[TSR]] was that [[Elminster]] was a real person, who visited him on Earth and told him about the [[Forgotten Realms]], which Greenwood then wrote about. In the pages of "The Wizards Three", he recounts a series of meetings between Elminster and wizards from other realms that he was allowed to spy upon, whereupon he recorded the things they discussed and then presented them to Dragon's readers. Aside from being entertaining fiction, these articles usually had new game content - mostly new spells, but sometimes other goodies as well.

Initially, despite the somewhat hoaxy premise, the article series told a fairly serious story as Elminster met with [[Mordenkainen]] and [[Dalamar]] to discuss news and events from their own worlds, a matter of some concern given the increasing rise of [[planeswalker]]s who traveled between. After Dalamar's departure from the group and his replacement by [[Rautheene]], however, the articles shifted to a briefer length and a more comedic tone; Elminster and Mordenkainen's guffawing like schoolboys in table-slapping amusement at Rauthnee's gluttony-induced thunderous belch and subsequent coating of her face in deviled egg as she attempts to cover  her mouth in embarrassment in Dragon #344 is a far cry from the grim discussions on evil in Dragon #185!