4E Paper Magazine

[Wisdom Penalty]

Reading the KQ thread got me to thinking: Is there anyone out there, or any rumors swirling, of someone planning to publish a 4e magazine? I'm not talking online content - that just doesn't scratch the itch. I'm talking an honest to goodness arrive-in-your-mailbox-monthly 4e magazine.

I don't know much about the GSL and I care even less, but I suspect (?) doing something like this may be precluded from that contractual stuff.

But I sure as hell hope I'm wrong.

Any of you other ladies willing to throw a few bucks at a regular 4e magazine in the best traditions of Dragon and Dungeon? Or am I alone and stupid?

Wis

 

[catsclaw227]

Any of you other ladies willing to throw a few bucks at a regular 4e magazine in the best traditions of Dragon and Dungeon? Or am I alone and stupid?

I'd buy it, especially if it had a PDF copy to go along with it. As I said elsewhere, I believe there's a dearth of 4e content and even an average product would make some money right now.

 

[theredrobedwizard]

Honestly, I thought this is what I wanted back when I heard that Dungeon and Dragon were both cancelled. Then I subscribed to Pathfinder.

I found two truths about myself.

1) I hate waiting for something to ship. That week or however long is annoying and silly.

2) Out of the year I've subscribed to Pathfinder, only two issues have shipped totally without problems. Several were sent incorrectly (missing documents in combined shipping), some arrived over a month late, and one was the wrong product entirely. (For the record, I live in the United States; so it's not wonky international shipping mucking things up.)

I've really grown to dislike the print format for both of these reasons. Plus, I've gotten so used to Amazon's Prime service (and the free One/Two day shipping that comes with it) that I don't know if I can go back to knowing that something is done and getting mailed out and I still have to wait 8 to 10 business days to get it. (Seriously, what the heck is this business days crap? Is it still 1950?)

So, no. I wouldn't be interested in an honest to goodness arrive-in-your-mailbox-monthly 4e magazine. I really like the "Oooh, there's a new article up today" feeling, instead of the "Well, what fun, I have to wait 3 more weeks for the next content to ship from the warehouse; then wait 9 more days on top of that to actually read it. Glee!" feeling I get from printed materials.

-TRRW

 

[Scribble]

Most likely not... Possibly depending on price.

A print magazine would run into the same problem my print Dragon magazines ran into. I read them, think "This is a cool article" then it goes on ym shelf never to be actually used.

I think, because it's a monthly update of a bunch of seperate rules ideas, it's just too much for me to track. PDFs let me take what I need mroe easily, and let the computer keep track of what's what.

 

[Jasperak]

For the longest time I was pissed that I could not get print Dungeon or Dragon anymore, but then I realized pretty much what the poster above said. Everything I could get from print magazines, I could get better from the internet, with the exception of having a print copy to read while on the can. I will never print out pdfs on landscape paper.

I started a print Dragon and Dungeon magazine collection about eight years ago, even though I have all of the Dragons 1-250 on CD. The tactile feel of the magazines while reading about new spells, Elminster, book reviews, boardgame reviews, and my personal faves, computer game reviews and hints, could never be replaced by today's online content. See, the original magazines offered a community to us fantasy nerds. The print magazines were all that we had. Now you can go to any number of online sites to get the same information faster.

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Edit: Unneccessary and rude. Keep it civil, and keep it clean.

- Xath

 

[Merlin the Tuna]

Removed. - Xath

I never subscribed to Dungeon or Dragon, so I'm probably not the guy to ask, but the internet fills all of my needs that the books don't handle. You'd have a hard time interesting me in a print magazine these days.

 

[Rechan]

Thanks... Jasper... for that utterly TMI post.

 

[MichaelSomething]

This reminds me of an old topic about magazines. The short version is "Magazines don't work."

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I'd prefer magazines. In fact, I wish Dungeon and Dragon were back in print. The online versions are dead to me as I don't find their pdf forms to be a useful reading & gaming media (for article-type products, anyway -- there are a range of gaming products that do work in pdf) unless you print it, at which point you've just defeated the purpose (though the publisher has suceeded in shifting his printing cost to you).

 

[Ginnel]

unless you print it, at which point you've just defeated the purpose (though the publisher has suceeded in shifting his printing cost to you).

Meh, I'd prefer the choice of having printing costs or not its another your milage may vary point.

Magazines that I buy nowadays, hmm Edge a magazine about electronic gaming, arcade, console and computer this has intelligent well written reviews and other articles £4 for a 100 odd pages on good quality paper it is good value to me also I trust it more than the multitude of online sites.

An paper version of the content and articles available on the WotC for 4th edition/3rd edition/white wolf nah no thanks, a magazine devoted to every type of RPG around, I might be interested.