DRAGON & DUNGEON Magazine PDFs Coming To An Online Store Near You!

Right now, there are only three issues (all from the D&D 4E period), but WotC has just put two issues of DUNGEON Magazine and one issue of DRAGON Magazine up online in PDF format for $4.99 each. Does this mean more are to come? (Thanks to Echohawk for the scoop).

The issues in question are DRAGON #364, DUNGEON #155, and DUNGEON #156. They're available at dndclassics.com, which is the branch of DTRPG/RPGNow which is geared towards just WotC material, and which contains tons of back-catalogue stuff from various editions.

This is an interesting development, and something fans have been asking for for a while. I've grabbed the DRAGON issue, and it's a good quality PDF, the same compilation originally from D&D Insider. Sadly, not in a format suitable for print-on-demand (but hey, I can dream!)

DRAGON #364


DUNGEON #156


DUNGEON #155

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[Jan van Leyden]

Not to spoil anyone's fun, but these issues are still available for free from the WotC-site:

Dragon #364
Dungeon #156

These issues were published in 2008 before DDI hid behind the paywall.

 

[delericho]

Good spot. It looks like there are four issues each of Dragon and Dungeon. Might be worth grabbing them now, in case WotC realise their mistake.

 

[Kramodlog]

5$ a pop for a controversial edition that hasn't been supported for the last 3 years? Nope.

 

[callinostros]

Then you are not the target audience...much the same way people who don't care about Birthright/Dark Sun/Planescape/Ravenloft/Greyhawk/1E/2E/3E/4E etc will never buy any of those pdfs.

 

[Zaukrie]

I don't understand the price. All money on these now is gravy. 2 dollars seems a much better price to sell a lot. It is like book publishers still charging full price for 20 year old Sci fi book titles.

 

[RichGreen]

5$ a pop for a controversial edition that hasn't been supported for the last 3 years? Nope.

Whatever anyone thinks of the game mechanics, there are some very well-written articles and adventures in the 4e issues of both magazines.

Cheers


Rich

 

[Shemeska]

Color me pleasantly surprised! This is good news

 

[JohnnyZemo]

I would love to fill in the gaps in my DUNGEON collection. It would be great to have all of the old issues available as PDFs. I'd love to see them make all the old issues available, maybe even as one giant download that you could get at a discount. (At $5 a pop, you'd have to spend $850 for 170 issues of DUNGEON, which is significantly more than I'd be willing to pay.)

 

[Henrix]

Very nice, I hope to see more - in particular older issues. But USD 5 is a bit steep.

 

[Kramodlog]

Whatever anyone thinks of the game mechanics, there are some very well-written articles and adventures in the 4e issues of both magazines.

Cheers


Rich

Anything that contains mechanics can't be used if 4e isn't used. Seems 5$ for stuff I can't use is ridiculus.