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The Best of Dragon Magazine Games

The Best of Dragon Magazine Games 1990

Design Brian Blume , Mark Foster , Bryce Knorr +2 more Art Dennis Kauth , Dale Oldfield , Tom Wham Publisher Tactical Studies Rules (TSR)
6.3 /10
BGG rating
2.2
Weight
2–6
Players
1
Best at
20–60
Minutes
10
Age
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About the Game

This is a set of six games previously published in Dragon Magazine, collected in one box, with better components, maps, and playing aids:

Ringside (Issue #38)

Food Fight (Issue #44)

File 13 (Issue #72)

The Baton Races of Yaz (Issue #82)

King's Table, aka Hnefatafl (Issue #128)

Search for the Emperor's Treasure (Issue #51). This version is significantly different from the original: it changes the encounter mix around, adds a deck of treasure clue cards, and expands the character selection with a dwarf and a "hairfoot." The nice Darlene Pekul map painting is traded in for a hexmap with generic terrain symbols that Wham suggests you mount to cardboard and cut apart, thus creating a new map each game a la Kings & Things. The cards force characters to move a lot more, and most encounters can no longer be given away, so this edition plays quite differently.

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Categories
Abstract Strategy Adventure Bluffing Fantasy Fighting Humor Racing Sports
Mechanics
Area Movement Dice Rolling Grid Movement Hexagon Grid Movement Points Paper-and-Pencil Player Elimination Point to Point Movement Roll / Spin and Move Simulation Square Grid
BGG ratings
213 · geek rating 5.56
BGG data
refreshed Sep 7, 2026