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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6026629" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>They were cancelled at the point where the quality was the highest I had ever seen it. (There may have been better times in the distant past, but those were before my time.) IMO, Paizo had hit on exactly the right mix of article types for Dragon, and their three-adventures-per-month format for Dungeon (and the mix of levels) was ideal.</p><p></p><p>(And, no, I don't consider the e-magazines to be a continuation, and never have. Had the iPad been available, and had they done them as an <em>actual electronic magazine</em>, that might have been different, but all they actually were was a bunch of web articles grouped under an increasingly-meaningless header.)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes. The Pathfinder Adventure Path books are excellent, but they're just not the same.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I was never <em>angry</em> at WotC for that decision. They owned the license, they were absolutely within their rights to take it back, to move them online, or to cancel them outright. And, indeed, it was good of them to extend the licenses so that "Savage Tide" could finish.</p><p></p><p>But I was <em>disappointed</em> that WotC took that decision, and moreso with the way it has actually turned out. But then, there were a lot of disappointments from WotC at about that time - the Dragonlance license, the end of the d20 license, the GSL, the 4e rollout, 4e itself...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6026629, member: 22424"] They were cancelled at the point where the quality was the highest I had ever seen it. (There may have been better times in the distant past, but those were before my time.) IMO, Paizo had hit on exactly the right mix of article types for Dragon, and their three-adventures-per-month format for Dungeon (and the mix of levels) was ideal. (And, no, I don't consider the e-magazines to be a continuation, and never have. Had the iPad been available, and had they done them as an [i]actual electronic magazine[/i], that might have been different, but all they actually were was a bunch of web articles grouped under an increasingly-meaningless header.) Yes. The Pathfinder Adventure Path books are excellent, but they're just not the same. I was never [i]angry[/i] at WotC for that decision. They owned the license, they were absolutely within their rights to take it back, to move them online, or to cancel them outright. And, indeed, it was good of them to extend the licenses so that "Savage Tide" could finish. But I was [i]disappointed[/i] that WotC took that decision, and moreso with the way it has actually turned out. But then, there were a lot of disappointments from WotC at about that time - the Dragonlance license, the end of the d20 license, the GSL, the 4e rollout, 4e itself... [/QUOTE]
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