Scott Rouse, Senior Brand Manager of Dungeons & Dragons at Wizards of the Coast stated, "Today the internet is where people go to get this kind of information. On April 18, 2007, Wizards of the Coast announced that Paizo would cease publication of Dragon in September of that year.
Because of a conflict regarding the reprint rights for the Knights of the Dinner Table comic strips printed in Dragon for many years, Dragon Magazine Archive is out of print and very scarce. This compilation is known as the software title Dragon Magazine Archive. Also included were the seven issues of The Strategic Review. In 1999 a compilation of the first 250 issues was released in PDF format with a special viewer including an article and keyword search in CD-ROM format. The Dragon later changed its name to Dragon Magazine and finally simply Dragon.
After 13 issues, Little Wars ceased publication and its content was folded into The Dragon (starting with issue 24). The following year, after only seven issues, TSR cancelled The Strategic Review and replaced it with two magazines, Little Wars, which covered miniature wargaming, and The Dragon, which covered role playing games. In short order, however, the popularity and growth of Dungeons & Dragons made it clear that the game had not only separated itself from its wargaming origins, but had launched an entirely new industry unto itself. At the time, roleplaying games were still seen as a sub-genre of the wargaming industry, and the magazine was designed not only to support Dungeons & Dragons and TSR's other games, but also to cover wargaming in general.
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