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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samothdm" data-source="post: 1542909" data-attributes="member: 5473">Dragon: I've really liked the magazine recently.  I don't use, or read, everything in there, but there's always at least one or two things that interest me.  Unfortunately, I think that most of those things are being moved to Dungeon  As far as the changes, I think I'll just have to wait and see.  It would be a shame to let a nearly 20 year subscription end.Dungeon: I haven't really used it because I find that's really too much work to rework the adventures for my homebrew world.  I don't use most of the standard races, and many of the "monsters" I use as PC races.  I've also got funky things like monotheistic religions and such.  So, I tend to do things like take Monte's Banewarrens and make all of the conversions at once and then just use that for multiple sessions.  It's less overall work for me.  Once in a while I introduce a sidetrek, but those usually come from Book of Challenges or from the Free Adventures on the WotC site.I've also got piles and piles of old Basic, Expert, and 1E adventures I can go to.  So, in short, I don't need that many new adventures.  Given that it seems all of the cool DM'ing content is now going to be in Dungeon, I guess I'll need to reconsider.  My wife will be so pleased to have even more bookshelf space going toward shelving these things.  What about articles like "Campaign Components" that included both Player and DM content?  Where would those articles go?  What about the series you were doing on various cities like Paris, Baghdad, and others?  I really liked those, although to be honest they could have been fleshed out a little more.  But, where would those go?  Or are you giving up unique content like that for just more feats, elf subraces, and the like?  Wil Wheaton: I'm sorry to see some of the negative comments about Wil here, but I expected it.  Here's the thing: Wil is a cool guy.  He is not Wesley Crusher.  That was a character, people.Wil is an actor and published writer who games.  He knows a ton about gaming.  More than you'd think.  I remember coming back from Vegas and mentioning that I had just bought some little cardboard figures to use in my games.  He asked me which ones, and I said, "Oh, they're just something I saw at the game store from Steve Jackson games..." and without prompting he shouted, "I LOVE Cardboard Heroes!".The bonus about having him write in the magazine is that he's a professional writer with a great sense of humor.  No, he's not a professional game designer, but he does have a lot of experience in the industry and has contact to people like Monte Cook and the guys from Wizards and Paizo (obviously).  He is starting to DM a campaign for his kids.I look forward to the articles.  I'm pretty sure they're not going to be "back when I was on Star Trek...".</blockquote>

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