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<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 5963408" data-attributes="member: 8863"><p>And we reach the end of the bulk of my Dragon collection. I was buying the magazine for much of Gross' 2e era, and my final subscripion ended with this one. At the time, I didn't have the money to renew, and so I didn't follow the magazine through most of the 3e days. I suppose some of the stuff that appeared at the end of the 2e issue may have seemed like tiresome rehashes to someone who had been following since the old glory days, but this stuff was mostly fresh to me. </p><p></p><p>I think the magazine had a pretty decent run from about the time WotC bought out TSR until issue 273. During this time, Dragon started to experiment more with color printing, and I like the way the magazine was laid out until the beginning of 3e. Some of the design might have been a bit conservative, but it pleased my aesthetic taste. The early 3e issues looked like crap, IMO. Too much experimentation, unreadable fonts, and just ugly-ass layouts and art. OTOH, the earliest issues I had picked up were late 1995, when there were serious problems with turnover on the magazine's staff that I was unaware of at the time. I was just simply unimpressed with the offerings and thought the magazine was making some real improvements at the start of 1996. Many of the feature articles did slowly improve from 1996 onwards, though maybe some of the more regular features were weak.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Orius, post: 5963408, member: 8863"] And we reach the end of the bulk of my Dragon collection. I was buying the magazine for much of Gross' 2e era, and my final subscripion ended with this one. At the time, I didn't have the money to renew, and so I didn't follow the magazine through most of the 3e days. I suppose some of the stuff that appeared at the end of the 2e issue may have seemed like tiresome rehashes to someone who had been following since the old glory days, but this stuff was mostly fresh to me. I think the magazine had a pretty decent run from about the time WotC bought out TSR until issue 273. During this time, Dragon started to experiment more with color printing, and I like the way the magazine was laid out until the beginning of 3e. Some of the design might have been a bit conservative, but it pleased my aesthetic taste. The early 3e issues looked like crap, IMO. Too much experimentation, unreadable fonts, and just ugly-ass layouts and art. OTOH, the earliest issues I had picked up were late 1995, when there were serious problems with turnover on the magazine's staff that I was unaware of at the time. I was just simply unimpressed with the offerings and thought the magazine was making some real improvements at the start of 1996. Many of the feature articles did slowly improve from 1996 onwards, though maybe some of the more regular features were weak. [/QUOTE]
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