Dragon 194 (June, 1993). Cover by Eric Gooch, last seen on issue 166. Guess the name isn’t a gag. This is fine, but unexciting. Seventeen years in, you can see a sort of fatigue creeping into Dragon. There are still banger covers, but they are fewer and farther in between (and most of them are by Brom). A similar thing is happening with D&D more broadly at that moment — the “greatest” RPG was also the oldest, almost drinking age, and that was really starting to show in the mid-90s. You can see this sort of play out visually in the rest of this year’s cover posts.
