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<blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 6026895" data-attributes="member: 11821"><p>I understand mourning the cancellation of a paper magazine, and I somewhat agree - I used to get Dragon and Dungeon all the time. But the digital versions were pretty great, too ... for a few years. And their integration with the rest of the 4e material was <em>spectacular</em>; having them reviewed by the same design team was a huge perk. It was well worth the subscription price.</p><p></p><p>On the one hand, I didn't have a printed magazine I could pick up at the bookstore. On the other hand, as a new parent, getting PDF articles scattered through the month rather than a single blob of content was pretty great. And having them added into the electronic tools was even better.</p><p></p><p>I am also left wondering why this matters so much to folks who didn't switch to 4e. I mean, in a hypothetical world with paper Dragon/Dungeon, these would still have been <strong>4e </strong>magazines - not 3.x or earlier. There's no hypothetical world in which Dragon/Dungeon would have reasonably kept pushing out 3.x content. Would you really have kept your subscriptions? As far as I can tell, you're down a few magazines either way.</p><p></p><p>Also - with the proliferation of tablets and color eReaders, I don't know that digital is nearly as much a barrier now, 4 years later. I can quite honestly say the format no longer matters to me, and if PDF allows for higher-quality content, so be it.</p><p></p><p>-O</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Obryn, post: 6026895, member: 11821"] I understand mourning the cancellation of a paper magazine, and I somewhat agree - I used to get Dragon and Dungeon all the time. But the digital versions were pretty great, too ... for a few years. And their integration with the rest of the 4e material was [I]spectacular[/I]; having them reviewed by the same design team was a huge perk. It was well worth the subscription price. On the one hand, I didn't have a printed magazine I could pick up at the bookstore. On the other hand, as a new parent, getting PDF articles scattered through the month rather than a single blob of content was pretty great. And having them added into the electronic tools was even better. I am also left wondering why this matters so much to folks who didn't switch to 4e. I mean, in a hypothetical world with paper Dragon/Dungeon, these would still have been [B]4e [/B]magazines - not 3.x or earlier. There's no hypothetical world in which Dragon/Dungeon would have reasonably kept pushing out 3.x content. Would you really have kept your subscriptions? As far as I can tell, you're down a few magazines either way. Also - with the proliferation of tablets and color eReaders, I don't know that digital is nearly as much a barrier now, 4 years later. I can quite honestly say the format no longer matters to me, and if PDF allows for higher-quality content, so be it. -O [/QUOTE]
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