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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 8174985" data-attributes="member: 52734">Back in the 2E days, I used to religiously read Dragon from cover to cover.  One of the things I missed most from later issues was the short stories actually - my favorite was the Fool Wolf series.  The ecologies were also fun to read, though I had an impossible time attempting to inject bits from the article into the actual game (I think I could do it a lot easier these days).  Also, I really enjoyed a lot of the articles that took real-world places, equipment, myths or locations and boiled a lot of research down for use in the game I appreciated at lot - at the very least it did a lot of legwork that would get me interested in finding out more about the subject, and give me a place to start researching from.By 3E it started becoming tied to the release schedule and the articles just started to become ads and add-ons for the publications coming out that month.  Dragon lost a lot of it's unique flair with that move, because previously it didn't so much overlap product as filled in gaps you wouldn't expect to see in existing product.I really think if Dragon could go back to that "supplemental reading for the game" instead of ad-ware, it could be revived as a tidy small distribution magazine.</blockquote>