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Some good points, Merric, though I'd say that there is more to a module than price per page unless it were a commodity. The most important thing to a module is the quality of the material, which has suffered in addition to price per page. Without quality Dungeon is really just paper with a...

I don't see how Dungeon can be in that much jeopordy when you compare it to a company publishing individual game modules. Unlike modules it has a locked-in subscriber base that minimizes its demand risk i.e. they can plan on at least a certain number of modules selling a month. Because there...

Hey, I just wanted to apologize to everyone for the nineteen posts. :eek: That was me hitting the button repeatedly before I had to run to work and thinking none of the attempts had gone through. I'll take the royal dumbass award for that one.

My guess is what Paizo is trying to do by combining Dungeon to Poly is to employ a bundling strategy, where the products are negtively correlated. Theoretically, by employing a bundling strategy they can increase sales while decrease their distribution costs. By choosing two magazines that...

The Witchfire trilogy is excellent in my book. While not necessarily easily adaptable with a little creativity it shouldn't be too hard either. I was in the same boat as you and didn't care for the whole steampunk/firearms thing. Here are a couple minor fixes I made to adapt it to a full...

Who really knows whether the disappointed Dungeon customers on this website form a representative sample of the Dungeon subscriber base? However, there is always the old adage that for every customer that takes the time to complain there are seven more than customers that walk away silent, and...

I appreciate Mr. Wilson's response and can definitely sympathize with his attempts to make the two magazines profitable. However, I've been buying Dungeon since issue #8 and get the magazine for detailed, complex adventures that are easily portable to any D&D campaign. Sidetreks and maps of...

A couple of my favorites over the years... Thirds of Purloined Vellum (Dungeon) - Heroes start out rescuing a merchant ambushed on a city street. A quest to recover his stolen contracts leads to thieves operating under the shadow of other thieves and a wizard living in the shadow of another...

My vote is split Poly out into it's own magazine so those of us who find it of no value are not forced to buy it and others who find it useful can spend their money subscribing to it. If Poly has that much value it should be able to stand on its own two feet with its own subscription. Then...

It sounds like this group has never faced any enemy they couldn't overcome with combat. I'd recommend building more fear of the enemy into the game. This is not saying send hordes of dragons against them, but put them up against an elusive and unknown faction. Start out with them taking out a...

You have no idea what you are talking about there. I have indeed had to look _very_ hard for a group that I liked since having to move for my job and have only managed to do that 5 months ago. After 20 years of gaming that was quite a new experience for me. At first I tried just playing as a...

Hardhead, I couldn't agree with you more.

Okay, I'm going to tone down the rhetoric and make a couple points. All these new races, prestige classes, etc. aren't so horrible in and of themselves. Of course as DM I can chose not to use them. But the direction the industry is heading in I am seeing more and more of them in modules and...

Good point, Hong. I guess it would no longer be meaningful since catering to the lowest common denominator is now built into the system.

Well, for criticizing someone about making assumptions... you are making some mighty big assumptions there yourself, pal. As one of the minority is critical of some things being taken too far are 3rd edition, that doesn't necessarily mean that it predisposes me to 1st edition either. The point...

This may seem a little bit redundant but it is based on the first part of a market research technique used for new product development. I'm not an expert or anything, but I'm putting it out here because I'm curious about the results in case any of you may be so willing. Answer this as if you...

It's great to see a lot of the constructive feedback offered by people here. I think there were indeed some good suggestions offered for how to deal with these annoyances. My own solution would be a game setting that would take care of a lot of these things... 1) places limits on some of the...

There are a lot of things that are good about 3rd edition, but at least in my experience 3rd edition requires a lot more heavy lifting on the average DMs part. Here are my gripes... 1) More rules to remember. 3rd edition has a lot more rules to keep track of than 1st and 2nd edition. As a DM...

What a wonderful idea for new roleplaying supplement. I just can't wait until they come up with a book where you can play actually roleplay gods. Better yet maybe a book full of prestige classes where you can get all 25s for all your attributes and cast 15th level wizard spells. Seriously...

I too am for low magic, slow advancement. I have used a lot of the quick fixes like reducing treasure and the amount of experience points. That is the easy part and I wouldn't say that is so much the problem. One difficulty is it makes the already hard job of finding good modules even...