1981 Dragon Magazine Ad in Ares Magazine

From SPI’s Ares Magazine in 1981 comes this full-page ad for TSR’s Dragon magazine. SPI’s Ares was devoted to sci-fi roleplaying and boardgames, and with this ad we see TSR trying to convince Ares readers that Dragon was about more than just fantasy roleplaying.

The entertaining piece to this ad is that fact that within about two years of this issue’s publication, TSR would own SPI and Ares. Ares eventually became a sci-fi section inside issues of Dragon magazine.

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