An Open Letter to Dragon and Dungeon Readers

[Vindicator]

I have'nt read the entire thread yet so pardon me if this was already asked. What will happen to Christopher West's Global Positioning maps? The maps and the minigames were my favorite part of Poly. A few months ago, maybe longer, Eric Mona said in another thread that they had enough of his Modern maps for roughly another year and a half. Hopefully, they can be put on WOTC's website as a 'Map of the Week' feature

To be honest, I've never understood why Modern players felt those maps were really needed. If you want maps of schools, or shopping malls, or fire stations, or warehouses, there are hundreds of sources outside of Polyhedron.

HOWEVER, even though I don't play Modern, I always thought the Global Positioning maps were cool. My favorite was always the Arctic Research Base from the Dark*Matter issue of Dungeon.

 

[Ranger REG]

To be honest, I've never understood why Modern players felt those maps were really needed. If you want maps of schools, or shopping malls, or fire stations, or warehouses, there are hundreds of sources outside of Polyhedron.

Because they already have grids. Plus we don't have "Map-A-Week" feature on the d20 Modern web site, unlike the D&D web site, which BTW, also offers free Original Adventures. Of course, if you think that WotC is wasting bandwidth and server putting up Original Adventures, I'd petition that they shut it down, making Dungeon the sole provider of adventures

 

[Bill Scott]

For any other companies out there reading this, I'm willing to pay for a nice mag full of Star Wars/d20 Modern/mini-games/etc.

I agree with TeaBee. What I would like to see is several companies (Green Ronin, AEG, Mongoose, RPG Objects, WOTC plus others) get together to publish a consolidated magazine. If it big and has enough articles focusing on Modern and SciFi rpg, please no more fantasy unless it has something special going for it, I would pay up to $10, maybe more for it

 

[Ranger REG]

It'll be awhile. In the meantime, I'm going to support EN World Gamer for my d20 fix. "No D&D Allowed" would be a nice catchphrase for this magazine.

 

[kolvar]

Well, after about 250 issues of Dragon cramming my boards at home, this seems to be the point where I can stop buying the mag. In the last two years it was only every third issue that had interesting material for me and if it had not been for the "official" (and the gatherer inside of me) I would have probably stopped earlier.
The catalogue-thingy seems rather redundant to me, when I can get these informations from the internet easyly. More PrCs, Spells, Magic Items etc? I think with the products I already own and the stuff I intend to buy in the future, I do have more of these than I (or any of my players, my children's players or my grand-children's players) could ever wish to play with. It is interesting to read, but only as an aside to the comics, sage advice and the other stuff found in there, to round up the mix, so to speak. Well. I will miss my nodwick ... Oh, I will read them probably on nodwick.com in the end anyway.

Dungeon, on the other side, is becoming interesting, with the dming stuff. Will Weaton? I was cheering as everyone else in the room when he finally got of the show. But I have the greatest respect for what he made of it now and think that it was quite hard for him.

Polyhedron! That is sad!

 

[Vocenoctum]

The catalogue-thingy seems rather redundant to me, when I can get these informations from the internet easyly.

I'm assuming it'll be like the quarterly catalog, with more information about the products. It's nice that retailers post the info from the quarterly's on the site, but I'd like to not have to depend on it, and have to wait.

Besides, it's extra pages anyway. Hopefully Wizards is offsetting the cost of the additional pages so it doesn't cost Paizo for them.

 

[Bill Scott]

Although I'm upset at the demise of Poly, I can understand why Paizo had to cancel the content. They had to keep their primary customers, the D&D players, happy. Easy come, easy go

I have'nt read the entire thread yet so pardon me if this was already asked. What will happen to Christopher West's Global Positioning maps? The maps and the minigames were my favorite part of Poly. A few months ago, maybe longer, Eric Mona said in another thread that they had enough of his Modern maps for roughly another year and a half. Hopefully, they can be put on WOTC's website as a 'Map of the Week' feature

I asked this question nearly a month ago and Was'nt given the courtesy of a official answer. I ask again, what will be done with Christopher West's maps? Does he, or Paizo, have the copyright on them

 

[Ourph]

I have only praise for Paizo publishing. When I emailed them to cancel my subscription and ask for a refund on the remaining part they sent me a check for the full amount and it arrived within 2 weeks. I call that being a very good sport and excellent customer service into the bargain.

 

[megamania]

I have only praise for Paizo publishing. When I emailed them to cancel my subscription and ask for a refund on the remaining part they sent me a check for the full amount and it arrived within 2 weeks. I call that being a very good sport and excellent customer service into the bargain.

wow- name a publisher that would do that........I can't think of any

 

[Stormfalcon]

First off, thanks to the Paizo guys for being upfront and honest about things regarding the changes in their upcoming magazines and the reasons for them. Most magazines I've run across would just implement the changes without much by way of warning, and this goes above and beyond that. My honest thanks.

Dragon: I'll take a wait-and-see on it. If the new material doesn't mess up what I already buy Dragon for, I'll continue buying it and maybe even subscribe. If the new material does present a problem, well, it's been nice reading in the past...

Dungeon: No two ways about it: No Poly in Dungeon = No Dungeon in my purchases. If EN World Magazine picks up the slack, my Dungeon dollars will go there instead. Sorry, but that's the way things are.