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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8718756" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>And this is one of the reasons why there <em>won't</em> be a revived Dragon Magazine. And why even if there were it would likely not be the kind of thing that would make the folks who want a revived Dragon Magazine very happy.</p><p></p><p>Dragon Magazine in an interesting beast when you look at it over the course of its history. It started as a forum for players of the game to get their ideas out to other gamers as well as a house organ for TSR to publish content themselves. The quality of those ideas and implementations varied quite considerably, as you'd expect given that it was basically the wild west and they needed to push a magazine out every month. Over time the "house organ" aspect grew until by the time Wizards acquired TSR that's almost all it was, and what little non house organ stuff that was still around was axed by Wizards. But with that the articles took on a lot more "officialness" than they were actually worthy of - they still needed to get articles out every month so playtesting and quality control had to take a back burner to "getting a magazine out this month". That's just the nature of the magazine industry. (Nowhere did this become more apparent than in the 4e era, IMO).</p><p></p><p>DMs Guild has taken the place of the forum for players of the game to get their own ideas published, so the need for Dragon magazine from that angle has disappeared. And as they're opening up settings for third parties to publish with on DM's Guild that model becomes more useful to players than a magazine that Wizards is curating. </p><p></p><p>And Wizards has a website to act as a house organ - the days when a boutique magazine was a good way to spread word about your products is long past us. On top of that Wizards is not interested in cranking out books of content on a monthly schedule - they've explicitly moved away from that model for a lot of reasons and it's been really successful for them. Having to acquire, edit, playtest, and generally develop a product every month (which is what a new Dragon would be doing) is so far from their current successful model for D&D sales that I can't see them even suggesting doing it.</p><p></p><p>What we're likely to get are article drops on D&D Beyond periodically that tie into various upcoming or recently released products. That's the "house organ" bit that Dragon used to provide. That, combined with DM's Guild, is basically both prongs of what Dragon used to be.</p><p></p><p>(Maybe if the D&D Beyond article strategy works for them we'll eventually get a "Best of D&D Beyond" collection out of it. That's the closest to a Dragon Magazine analogue I suspect we're likely to get in print).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8718756, member: 19857"] And this is one of the reasons why there [I]won't[/I] be a revived Dragon Magazine. And why even if there were it would likely not be the kind of thing that would make the folks who want a revived Dragon Magazine very happy. Dragon Magazine in an interesting beast when you look at it over the course of its history. It started as a forum for players of the game to get their ideas out to other gamers as well as a house organ for TSR to publish content themselves. The quality of those ideas and implementations varied quite considerably, as you'd expect given that it was basically the wild west and they needed to push a magazine out every month. Over time the "house organ" aspect grew until by the time Wizards acquired TSR that's almost all it was, and what little non house organ stuff that was still around was axed by Wizards. But with that the articles took on a lot more "officialness" than they were actually worthy of - they still needed to get articles out every month so playtesting and quality control had to take a back burner to "getting a magazine out this month". That's just the nature of the magazine industry. (Nowhere did this become more apparent than in the 4e era, IMO). DMs Guild has taken the place of the forum for players of the game to get their own ideas published, so the need for Dragon magazine from that angle has disappeared. And as they're opening up settings for third parties to publish with on DM's Guild that model becomes more useful to players than a magazine that Wizards is curating. And Wizards has a website to act as a house organ - the days when a boutique magazine was a good way to spread word about your products is long past us. On top of that Wizards is not interested in cranking out books of content on a monthly schedule - they've explicitly moved away from that model for a lot of reasons and it's been really successful for them. Having to acquire, edit, playtest, and generally develop a product every month (which is what a new Dragon would be doing) is so far from their current successful model for D&D sales that I can't see them even suggesting doing it. What we're likely to get are article drops on D&D Beyond periodically that tie into various upcoming or recently released products. That's the "house organ" bit that Dragon used to provide. That, combined with DM's Guild, is basically both prongs of what Dragon used to be. (Maybe if the D&D Beyond article strategy works for them we'll eventually get a "Best of D&D Beyond" collection out of it. That's the closest to a Dragon Magazine analogue I suspect we're likely to get in print). [/QUOTE]
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