The Dragon's Bestiary

The Dragon's Bestiary was a long-running column in Dragon magazine which introduced new monsters within specific themes. The series debuted in June 1979 (Dragon #26) and ended in September 2013 (Dragon #427).
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==Articles==
Note that only articles relating to Realms canon (relating to the Forgotten Realms or Core D&D) appear here.
Issue 	Title 	Author 	Description 	Citation template
Dragon #26 	Barghest 	Uncredited 	Stats for one of the most common denizens of Gehenna, the Barghest. 	
Dragon #30 	Dragon's Bestiary 	Ed Greenwood 	All about the Curst for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. Ed Greenwood's first Dragon article. 	
Dragon #32 	Crawling Claw 	Ed Greenwood 	All about the Crawling Claw for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. 	
Dragon #33 	Dragon's Bestiary 	Roger E. Moore 	All about the Frosts or "Snow Fairies" for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. 	
Dragon #40 	Wingless Wonder 	Ed Greenwood 	A comical beast that resembles a walking egg. 	
Dragon #41 	The Silkie and Tomb Tapper 	Ed Greenwood and Tom Moldvay 	A race of wereseals. 	
Dragon #43 	Lythlyx 	Ed Greenwood 	A creature that resembles a spinning, rotating springs or corkscrews. 	
Dragon #44 	The Dragon's Bestiary 	Rich Baldwin and Roger E. Moore 	All about the Ice Golem. 	
Dragon #46 	Gaund 	Ed Greenwood 	A magical reptile. 	
Dragon #48 	The Dragon's Bestiary 	Roger E. Moore and Ernest N. Rowland 	A selection of underwater creatures, including the water-horse. 	
Dragon #52 	Rhaumbusun 	Ed Greenwood and Victor Selby 	A small, reptilian creature that can paralyze with it's gaze. 	
Dragon #53 	Argas 	James Hopkins II 	Reptilian creatures that devour metals to make themselves tougher. 	
Dragon #53 	Oculon 	Roger E. Moore 	An enchanted monster created by a high-level magic-user to act as an assistant or guardian. 	
Dragon #53 	Narra 	Jeff Goelz 	Creatures of extreme Lawful Good nature that work to further the cause of their alignment. 	
Dragon #54 	The Dragon's Bestiary 	Craig Stenseth, Ed Greenwood and Roger E. Moore 	All about the Boggart, the Stroan, and the Incubus for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. 	
Dragon #55 	The Dragon's Bestiary 	Craig Stenseth, Ed Greenwood, Erol Otus and Jeff Brandt 	All about the Devil Spider, Surchur, Dyll, and Poltergeist for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. 	
Dragon #58 	The Dragon's Bestiary 	Ed Greenwood and Roger E. Moore 	All about the Sull, Beguiler, and Magenta's Cat for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. 	
Dragon #59 	The Dragon's Bestiary 	Ed Greenwood, Michael Parkinson and Roger E. Moore 	Stats for three monsters: The Bleeder (a beholderkin) and the more legendary Stymphalian birds and spriggans. 	
Dragon #61 	The Dragon's Bestiary 	Ed Greenwood, Jeff Brandt, Theresa Berger and Willie Carlson 	The firetail, light worm, umbrae and tybor. 	
Dragon #116	The Dragon's Bestiary 	Alex Gray, Gregg Chamberlain, Nick Kopsinis, Robert Maurus, and Spike Y. Jones 	New aquatic monsters. 	
Dragon #118	The Dragon's Bestiary 	Ed Greenwood, Jeff MacArthur. K.L. Campbell 	Spiders for AD&D. 	
Dragon #119	A Walk through the Woods 	Allan Hopkins, Arthur Collins, Douglas Lent, Ed Greenwood, Lance Hankins, Loran Wlodarski, Mark DeForest, Robert Benedetti, Samuel J. Offutt, and William L. Bowman Jr.	A huge collection of woodland monsters. 	
Dragon #127	Slimy, Gross, and Yucky 	Scott Bennie and Thomas M. Kane 	Stats for two slimes. 	
Dragon #129	Colder than ice 	Dean Shomshak 	A collection of creatures related to cold. 	
Dragon #133	All Giant Worms are Not Alike 	Kent Colbath 	Statistics for giant versions of various real-world worms. 	
Dragon #134	Dragons of Earth, Sea, and Space 	Ed Greenwood, Gregory Detwiler, Jeffrey S. Johnson and Mike Persinger 	Seven dragons, from the deepest seas to astral space. 	
Dragon #135	Trouble comes on little cat feet 	Scott Bennie 	The tibbit (cat-were). 	
Dragon #139	Rare beasts of the Forgotten Realms setting 	Ed Greenwood 	Rare Forgotten Realms fauna. 	
Dragon #140	Creatures of light and darkness 	Ed Greenwood 	New monsters from the Forgotten Realms setting. 	
Dragon #141	Nonhuman creatures - with human form 	Gregg Sharp, Linda Hankins, Michael J. Szarmach, Ronald C. Morgan II, Scott Bennie, and Steve Sloane 	New humanoids. 	
Dragon #146	All dragons, great and small 	David E. Cates, Gregory Detwiler, Malcolm Bowers, Mark Mathis and Randy Johns 	Not all new types of dragons are bad - only most of them! 	
Dragon #149	Not quite horses--but perhaps better 	Kurt Martin 	5 equine creatures. 	
Dragon #150	All life crawls where mind flayers rule 	Stephen Inniss 	Dangerous fauna from the homeworld of the illithids. 	
Dragon #151	Never forget, never forgive 	Sylvia Li 	The Wang-Liang, a long-lived race of mischievious giants with a curious grudge against humanity. 	
Dragon #158	Two almost-but-not-quite dragons 	Spike Y. Jones and Steve Fetsch 	The Gorynych and the common Dragonet. 	
Dragon #159	The call of the wildspace 	Harold Johnson, Timothy B. Brown, and Troy Denning 	3 new monsters from space, formatted Monstrous Compendium style. 	
Dragon #162	Two hauntingly good (but definitely bad) undead. 	Spike Y. Jones 	Two new undead. 	
Dragon #163	A weaver of spells and disaster 	Ed O'Connell 	The spell weavers, alien mages from an alternate dimension. 	
Dragon #165	Send your PCs on a fishing trip they'll always remember 	Tim Malto 	Two new aquatic monsters. 	
Dragon #167	The Thorns that Bite, the Vines that Catch 	Gregg Chamberlain 	Vegetative monsters. 	
Dragon #170	Give your campaign some heavy metal—dragons that is 	Jason M. Walker 	The ferrous metal dragons. 	
Dragon #172	Attention: Underground adversaries seeking heroes to bash 	Anthony Gerard, Costa Valhouli and Spike Y. Jones 	New monsters for Undermountain. 	
Dragon #174	Who guards the ioun stones? Here are some candidates 	Matthew P. Hargenrader 	New monsters connected to the Ioun stones. 	
Dragon #180	Three peculiar beasts for all AD&D campaigns 	Spike Y. Jones 	A goat that knocks down walls, and a lizard that knocks down everything. 	
Dragon #182	Some of the uglier branches of the dragons' family tree 	Gregory W. Detwiler 	Two of the uglier dragonkin. 	
Dragon #186	Unique undead additions to your AD&D game campaign 	Spike Y. Jones 	Three unique undead horrors. 	
Dragon #187	The wilderness isn't as nice as it used to be 	Malcolm Bowers and Spike Y. Jones 	Two new monsters of the wilderness. 	
Dragon #191	Politeness counts when dealing with these denizens of Faerie-land	Richard A. Hunt 	Two denizens of Faerie-land. 	
Dragon #193	They came from the Outer Planes! 	Randy Maxwell 	Three creatures from the worlds beyond. 	
Dragon #197	It's not a petting zoo 	Ed Greenwood 	Four new monsters from the Forgotten Realms setting 	
Dragon #199	Those terrible trolls 	Alec Baclawski 	Discussion of trolls in D&D with some new species. 	
Dragon #206	The Good, The Bad, and the Clumsy 	Spike Y. Jones 	Faerie creatures. 	
Dragon #209	Brass Minotaur 	Don Webb 	A unique golem created to avenge the death of a man's wife. 	
Dragon #209	Phantom Flyer 	Don Webb 	A creature created as a fast and silent flyer. 	
Dragon #209	Burning Man 	Don Webb 	A fire machine created to lay waste to a troll army. 	
Dragon #214	Kercpa 	Norman Abrahamsen 	Bipedal red squirrels that live in dense forests far away from civilization. 	
Dragon #221	Lords of Chaos 	Edward Bonny 	The Slaad Lords. 	
Dragon #223	Four Guardian Gargoyles 	John Baichtal 	Special gargoyles for your use. 	
Dragon #227	Monsters of the Underdark 	Wolfgang Baur 	Underearth dwellers. 	
Dragon #234	The Necromancer's Armory 	Rudy Thauberger 	The necromancer's weapons are walking nightmares. 	
Dragon #235	Monsters of the Lower Deep 	Gregory D. Detwiler 	Venture too deep into the ocean's depths, and these are the fishes you'll end up feeding. 	
Dragon #237	Venomous! 	Kevin Melka 	This article details a number of venomous creatures: snakes. 	
Dragon #238	Spawn of the Sewers 	John Baichtal 	Right under your feet. 	
Dragon #238	The Other Mummies 	Brian Walton and Richard Pengelly 	Hard-hearted killers from bogs and glaciers. 	
Dragon #239	The Little People 	Brian Corvello 	Four tricky little fellows. 	
Dragon #242	Talisman Servants 	Bruce Schmidt 	This article presents three talisman servants, special constructs created in ancient Netheril. 	
Dragon #243	Magical Crossbreeds 	Johnathan M. Richards 	Armadillephant, dragonfly turtle, duckbunny, moat cat, spider-horse, and venom dog. Seriously. 	
Dragon #247	The Anurans 	Johnathan M. Richards 	Frogs and toads. 	
Dragon #248	Dragon-Kin 	Gregory W. Detwiler 	Dragon-like monsters. 	
Dragon #250	Aquatic Creatures 	Johnathan M. Richards 	A small menagerie of new Aquatic Creatures. 	
Dragon #251	Missing Links 	Johnathan M. Richards 	Monstrous evolutionary links. 	
Dragon #252	Formidable Visitants 	Michael D. Winkle 	Four creatures adapted from the works of M.R. James. 	
Dragon #254	Giants from the Grave 	Gregory W. Detwiler 	Undead giants. 	
Dragon #259	Symbiotes and Parasites 	Johnathan M. Richards 	Hold still... you've got something on you. 	
Dragon #266	Giant Lycanthropes 	Brian P. Hudson 	Really big werethings. 	
Dragon #267	Designing Dungeon Monsters 	Gregory W. Detwiler 	Some underground monsters and advice on making more of the same. 	
Dragon #268	The Lizard Folk 	Michael Kuciak 	This article discusses lizardfolk and suggests new varieties of subspecies. 	
Dragon #269	Demihuman Pets 	Jack Pisker 	This article discusses the pets of different demihuman races. 	
Dragon #271	'Beastly Research' Winners 	Leon Chang, Richard Sanders, and Talon Dunning 	Creature hybrids. 	
Dragon #272	Diminutive Dragons 	James Wyatt 	From the familiar to the fantastic, these tiny dragons make perfect companions or pests. 	
Dragon #281	Subterranean Scares 	Joseph R. Terrazzino 	Creatures of the Underdark. 	
Dragon #284	Return of the Greater Drakes 	Johnathan M. Richards 	Aerial riding mounts. 	
Dragon #292	Bad Seeds 	Ed Bonny, Skip Williams and Steve Winter 	Bad plants in the forest. 	
Dragon #298	The Punishments of Lolth 	Eric Cagle 	When drow are punished, they are sometimes turned into a drider. 	
Dragon #299	The Horrors of Cormyr 	Thomas Costa 	Monstrous monsters in the Realms. 	
Dragon #300	Hellish Fangs on Abyssal Wings 	James Wyatt 	Demon dragons from the lower planes. 	
Dragon #302	Construct of Destruction 	Eric Cagle 	Five New Golems. 	
Dragon #367	Mindless Monstrosities 	Greg Bilsland 	Information on golems and oozes. 	
Dragon #373	The Brood of Alloces 	Ari Marmell 	Known variably as the Prince of Beasts and the Butcher of Nessus, the devil Alloces is Hell’s own mad surgeon. Though his influence in the infernal hierarchy comes from his services as stable-master to Asmodeus and other archdevils, keeping and breeding their herds, his obsession, his love, and his greatest claim to infamy comes in his efforts to create new monsters.	
Dragon #420	Fey of Wood and Wind 	Steve Townshend 	In old cupboards and walls, beneath the thick underbrush of Faerie forests, in enchanted crystal caves, wee fey make their homes in places that big folk do not tread. We put some wee, and some not-so-wee, fey under the magnifying glass. 	
;Dragon Annual:
Issue 	Title 	Author 	Description 	Citation template
Dragon magazine annual #1	Predators of the Underdark	Keith Strohm 	The reason you should be afraid of the dark. 	
Dragon magazine annual #2	Arctic Monsters 	Belinda G. Ashley 	Your heroes will find only cold comfort in the clutches of these monsters. 	
Dragon magazine annual #3	Urban Pests 	Johnathan M. Richards	What happens between adventures is often the talk of the town. 	
Dragon magazine annual #4	The Ghazneths 	Troy Denning 	Only creatures as powerful as the ghazneths could threaten the kingdom of Cormyr. 	
Dragon magazine annual #5	Children of Tharizdun 	James Jacobs 	Who knows what terrible fiends still lurk in undiscovered cult temples from the time of the Dark God?	
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