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<blockquote data-quote="NewLifeForm" data-source="post: 1544214" data-attributes="member: 7811"><p><strong>Long One...A Bit Ranty...But Not Much</strong></p><p></p><p>I will begin by agreeing with the majority of the people who have posted so far. I say good luck to Paizo with this new direction. Logically, it sounds like the best approach for them at this time.</p><p></p><p>That said...</p><p></p><p>With the 30th Anniversery of D&D and the 28th Anniversery of Dragon this year, I find myself thinking nostalgically about both, and coming to the conclusion that I shall not see Draon's heyday again for some time... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> </p><p></p><p>In the dim and distant past, Dragon Magazine had articles about...<gasp>...other games! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> You could find ideas for Traveller and Champions within those mighty pages. The Polyhedron section of Dungeon still connected me to that time. With the Poly section of Dungeon departing, I certainly have little reason to purchase it in the future. No Star Wars, No Mini-Games, No thank you.</p><p></p><p>Dragon just has not interested me very much in the last year or so. After gaming for as long as I have, I look at most articles and simply think "this subject again?" The latest issue of Dragon covered 30 years of D&D history - very cool -, but then had an article on Dragon PCs (Between Dragon Magazine and house rules I've been seeing that since the early to mid eighties-and do we really need to push this into a game that has enough trouble with power gamers and balance as it is).</p><p></p><p>I'm going to give each mag's new format a few issues. It would be unfair not to. They will have to really wow me though. These days, with the internet and all the ideas and supplement material I can get for free, I may start to cut out a resource that, as much as it dismays me to say so, I really just don't use.</p><p></p><p>AD</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NewLifeForm, post: 1544214, member: 7811"] [b]Long One...A Bit Ranty...But Not Much[/b] I will begin by agreeing with the majority of the people who have posted so far. I say good luck to Paizo with this new direction. Logically, it sounds like the best approach for them at this time. That said... With the 30th Anniversery of D&D and the 28th Anniversery of Dragon this year, I find myself thinking nostalgically about both, and coming to the conclusion that I shall not see Draon's heyday again for some time... :( In the dim and distant past, Dragon Magazine had articles about...<gasp>...other games! :eek: You could find ideas for Traveller and Champions within those mighty pages. The Polyhedron section of Dungeon still connected me to that time. With the Poly section of Dungeon departing, I certainly have little reason to purchase it in the future. No Star Wars, No Mini-Games, No thank you. Dragon just has not interested me very much in the last year or so. After gaming for as long as I have, I look at most articles and simply think "this subject again?" The latest issue of Dragon covered 30 years of D&D history - very cool -, but then had an article on Dragon PCs (Between Dragon Magazine and house rules I've been seeing that since the early to mid eighties-and do we really need to push this into a game that has enough trouble with power gamers and balance as it is). I'm going to give each mag's new format a few issues. It would be unfair not to. They will have to really wow me though. These days, with the internet and all the ideas and supplement material I can get for free, I may start to cut out a resource that, as much as it dismays me to say so, I really just don't use. AD [/QUOTE]
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