Truth Seeker
Adventurer
Alright not 'killed', severly mugged, assulted, beatdown. And as for 'content'...(stops, feel the urge of anger rising)
Vigilance said:
Could the Death of Dragon actually drive you from the Hobby?
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grimslade
Krampus ate my d20s
"I'm taking my ball and going home" hardly
I think pulling the license before having an alternative in place was a stupid business move but it is not going to keep me from D&D. I think the mags were at the best they have ever been. I enjoyed and will enjoy every Dungeon for the last 4 years. Dragon mostly the same with a few misses. Allowing subscribers to drift to other outlets seems like a poor play.
But leave the hobby? How can I support Pathfinder and Piazo if I do that?
I think pulling the license before having an alternative in place was a stupid business move but it is not going to keep me from D&D. I think the mags were at the best they have ever been. I enjoyed and will enjoy every Dungeon for the last 4 years. Dragon mostly the same with a few misses. Allowing subscribers to drift to other outlets seems like a poor play.
But leave the hobby? How can I support Pathfinder and Piazo if I do that?
Grimstaff
Explorer
And Pink Floyd and the Beatles aren't gone.Vigilance said:
Because there will still be Beatles and Pink Floyd-like material released in commercials.
Cool!
With this logic, nothing great ever dies as long as it can be loosely replicated by a corporate entity in a cheaper format! Hoody Hoo!
JediSoth
Voice Over Artist & Author
I'm not going to quit gaming over this. I may stop buying WotC D&D products (well, I still want the Fiendish Codices), though. I was already on the rail about their product quality anyway, this just clinches my decision to throw all my support to the 3rd parties.
JediSoth
JediSoth
Henrix
Explorer
It won't make me leave the hobby, but it might make me leave D&D.
One of the main reasons I've stuck with playing mostly D&D since 3rd ed came out has been the formidable amount of support material found in, primarily, Dungeon.
Without it other games start looking far more attractive - and there are a good few I've been wanting to play for a while now.
One of the main reasons I've stuck with playing mostly D&D since 3rd ed came out has been the formidable amount of support material found in, primarily, Dungeon.
Without it other games start looking far more attractive - and there are a good few I've been wanting to play for a while now.
Grimstaff said:
Dragon, and especially Dungeon, were things I bought consistantly over the years, even when I wasnt playing or even reading game books.
I wouldnt quit, because its silly, but I'll be picking up pathfinder and gamemastery from Paizo because they have shown consistant quality. I have NO interest in GW's....er...WotC's online magazine. None. WIll not buy it.
Vigilance said:
No, their dead.
Online content is NOT the same thing as a magazine you can take where you go. Thats an important feature.
IF the magazines were not making money, I can see why they would kill them and move online. But since they were healthy, this is stupid. And only aggrevates the customer base.
Steel_Wind
Legend
No. It won't do anything like that.
But it is a significant factor in that I expect it will end up cutting ties that would otherwise have kept members of my gaming circle lashed to 3.5 D&D.
Please understand that my gaming circle is largely a bunch of guys in their 40s. We began as gamers with Original D&D or 1st edition back in the 70s and early 80s.
All of us left AD&D by 1984. We had moved on to other systems and settled principally with ICE's Rolemaster. We played that system more or less exclusively till 2000. We sat out 2nd edition in its entirety. From time to time we would buy setting material for 2nd edition - but never rules. We never played 2nd edition and never wanted to.
When 3rd edition ended up including many of the things we liked about Rolemaster, we jumped ship and returned to the fold.
Please appreciate that one of the big reasons we did this as a group was because we were tired of not having a game that had the perqs and bells and whistles that came with playing in an ongoing officially supported game. We missed new rulebooks, we missed settings we didn't have to convert to use - but above all we missed monthly magazines what supported the game that we could buy.
Rulebooks and setting material we have aplenty now - more than we could ever use. That will continue and that's still a big factor in keeping our interest.
But the loss of the magazines is to a lot of the guys in my gaming circle a big deal. It's one the perqs that came with being back in the fold.
And now it's soon to be gone. That IS going to have an impact on the attraction of continuing to play 3.5 for the 8 members of my gaming circle as time wears on.
But it is a significant factor in that I expect it will end up cutting ties that would otherwise have kept members of my gaming circle lashed to 3.5 D&D.
Please understand that my gaming circle is largely a bunch of guys in their 40s. We began as gamers with Original D&D or 1st edition back in the 70s and early 80s.
All of us left AD&D by 1984. We had moved on to other systems and settled principally with ICE's Rolemaster. We played that system more or less exclusively till 2000. We sat out 2nd edition in its entirety. From time to time we would buy setting material for 2nd edition - but never rules. We never played 2nd edition and never wanted to.
When 3rd edition ended up including many of the things we liked about Rolemaster, we jumped ship and returned to the fold.
Please appreciate that one of the big reasons we did this as a group was because we were tired of not having a game that had the perqs and bells and whistles that came with playing in an ongoing officially supported game. We missed new rulebooks, we missed settings we didn't have to convert to use - but above all we missed monthly magazines what supported the game that we could buy.
Rulebooks and setting material we have aplenty now - more than we could ever use. That will continue and that's still a big factor in keeping our interest.
But the loss of the magazines is to a lot of the guys in my gaming circle a big deal. It's one the perqs that came with being back in the fold.
And now it's soon to be gone. That IS going to have an impact on the attraction of continuing to play 3.5 for the 8 members of my gaming circle as time wears on.
