Dungeon #187 - first issue with 0 adventures?

[JoeGKushner]

If only that wisdom had been followed in first edition with those unbalanced classes in Unearthed Arcana!

Or second edition with those numerous Complete books....

etc...

The rate they're going though, the 'magazine' portions will all be freebies because they'll pretty much be limited to errata that they coudln't get out in the first place in printed products.

 

[Holy Bovine]

February is over and the Table of Contents for issue #188 is posted.

"Beneath the Dust" the lone complete adeventure slated for issue #187 was never released.

Is this the first month Dungeon has contained zero playable adventures?

*thud*

 

[samursus]

Wow. This is kind of shocking.

I never noticed, because Dungeon articles are rarely on my radar (despite me being a DM).

Hmmm...

 

[Mr. Wilson]

Now that I'm finally looking at running Paragon tier adventures in the near future (level 10 now), I have come face to face with the fact levels 7-13 really lack significant adventures in Dragon.

And really, just from reading the adventure list, it looks worse after that if you're not on the adventure path. There's a few, but man, that's something that should be addressed. I may not use adventures whole sale, but I do like to look at individual encounters to help spark ideas.

Also, I don't know what to say about Dungeon going a month without an adventure.

Maybe WoTC isn't getting many submissions?

edit note: Just saw new Dungeon has 2 paragon tier adventures listed, so that's a good start.

 

[eriktheguy]

I hadn't bothered to look at the magazines even though I'm a subscriber. I checked them out today and was not surprised to find little useful content.

 

[Dice4Hire]

"D&D is a fundamentally creative game, requiring the players to create characters and the DM to build a setting and craft adventures. You could easily argue that a big part of playing D&D is making stuff up. Beyond the basic rules, players and DMs don’t need anything."

Well there you have it.

NEWS FLASH: Toyota announces cars are bad for the environment, urges everyone to stop driving.

(kidding, of course)

Well, with WOTC I can and would be willing to not buy their stuff.

 

[Incenjucar]

I realize that the combined subscription model doesn't work well with this, but wasn't Dungeon traditionally a bimonthly magazine instead of monthly?

 

[Nagol]

I realize that the combined subscription model doesn't work well with this, but wasn't Dungeon traditionally a bimonthly magazine instead of monthly?

No, it was monthly. I think you're thinking of Polyhedron.

 

[delericho]

I realize that the combined subscription model doesn't work well with this, but wasn't Dungeon traditionally a bimonthly magazine instead of monthly?

No, it was monthly. I think you're thinking of Polyhedron.

You're both right. For a long, long time, Dungeon was bimonthly. However, at some point during the 3e era (I forget when exactly), it was switched to a monthly release with a (somewhat) reduced page count.

Some time later, Paizo then hit on the formula of having exactly 3 adventures every month (one each for low-, mid- and high-level). They credited this as being the "golden formula" that reversed what had been falling sales numbers to that point.

 

[renau1g]

Well, that formula and Paizo's pretty high quality adventures with tons of custom art and maps I'm sure helped. I still wonder how they would've done with 4e adventure design...if we had something on the quality of their AP's for 4e that would be fantastic...