Dragon Debuts On D&D Insider... With Porn!

The first article in the new electronic version of Dragon magazine debuted Wednesday, and on Thursday it saw its first significant alteration through the revisionist magic of online publishing. The article, "The Ecology of the Death Knight," goes into extensive detail about death knights young and old—from Lord Soth to some well-marked spoilers about the print version of Dungeon's Savage Tide Adventure Path—also hitting on some characters and relics from D&D's early days. One of these nostalgic nods is to Dungeons & Dragons thinly-veiled take on Moorcock's Stormbringer, the devastating sword Blackrazor.

There's only one problem... The picture of Blackrazor... well... it kind of looked like a... um... well, the kids online are calling it a vajayjay (whatever that is). Ahem… in two different ways.

When the news broke on ENWorld's forums late Wednesday night Scott Rouse, the Senior Brand Manager for Dungeons & Dragons, had this to say:

Jesus H Christ!
Guess what I get to go and ask to be fixed tomorrow?

The image has since been replaced with an old first edition image of Blackrazor—saving the young from being blinded and the old from fainting spells—but you can still see the complete discussion (and a lot of clever anatomy terms) on the ENWorld thread about the image titled "Okay... that's just vulgar...". And, if you're that interested, one poster saved the original image (page 2, post 64, or after the jump; Warning, questionably NSFW content). You can also check out the new, grandma-safe version of the "Ecology of the Death Knight" as long as you have a D&D Insider account (soon to be a $15-a-month value) or a WotC forums log-in name.

Honestly, I was a little warry about the new online incarnation of Dragon, but now I'm totally looking forward to the next article... and hopefully a little elf on elf action.