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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 7673451" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>The app is fine - it's basically the same as their website - an ad for their D&D brand. I kind of liked the first issue, in that it provided some insight into their direction going forward for D&D and the Elemental Evil storyline. The second issue was meh because I don't play D&D computer games. I imagine the issues that talk about storyline stuff will be interesting to me, and the issues that don't will be as skippable as issue 2 was.</p><p></p><p>It's basically the TSR promo content that used to come in every issue of Dragon back in the day, except I'm not paying for it. And it's nice to have all of their tumblr and Facebook links in one place to peruse (since I don't use Facebook anymore and don't have time for Tumblr). Would I like to have an actual Dragon magazine now? Meh - I'm not sure it would be worth it anymore. How much does the game really need monthly articles like that at this point? The game now has a 40+ year history of stuff out there - by the end of the Paizo Dragon publishing era the magazine was treading water and regurgitating the same ideas "but now for 3.5e". The Wizards Dragon for 4th edition was only interesting in the setting materials they published for their Nentir Vale setting - other than that it was regurgitating the same ideas "but now for 4e" (and admittedly even a lot of the Nentir Vale stuff they published fell into the "here's something that has been in the game forever, but we're going to reimagine it for this new setting in some way" that was hit or miss).</p><p></p><p>What would they be doing with a Dragon magazine these days? Likely regurgitating articles they've done for all of the previous iterations of the game "but now for 5e"! I could see a yearly annual that might serve that purpose, but a monthly magazine? Not in this day and age I think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 7673451, member: 19857"] The app is fine - it's basically the same as their website - an ad for their D&D brand. I kind of liked the first issue, in that it provided some insight into their direction going forward for D&D and the Elemental Evil storyline. The second issue was meh because I don't play D&D computer games. I imagine the issues that talk about storyline stuff will be interesting to me, and the issues that don't will be as skippable as issue 2 was. It's basically the TSR promo content that used to come in every issue of Dragon back in the day, except I'm not paying for it. And it's nice to have all of their tumblr and Facebook links in one place to peruse (since I don't use Facebook anymore and don't have time for Tumblr). Would I like to have an actual Dragon magazine now? Meh - I'm not sure it would be worth it anymore. How much does the game really need monthly articles like that at this point? The game now has a 40+ year history of stuff out there - by the end of the Paizo Dragon publishing era the magazine was treading water and regurgitating the same ideas "but now for 3.5e". The Wizards Dragon for 4th edition was only interesting in the setting materials they published for their Nentir Vale setting - other than that it was regurgitating the same ideas "but now for 4e" (and admittedly even a lot of the Nentir Vale stuff they published fell into the "here's something that has been in the game forever, but we're going to reimagine it for this new setting in some way" that was hit or miss). What would they be doing with a Dragon magazine these days? Likely regurgitating articles they've done for all of the previous iterations of the game "but now for 5e"! I could see a yearly annual that might serve that purpose, but a monthly magazine? Not in this day and age I think. [/QUOTE]
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