3 out of 5 rating for DRAGON+ #3
The first couple of issues of Dragon+ seemed like something of a waste of effort -- at least half of the 'content' was advertising that, if someone was knowledgeable enough to know how to get Dragon+, would likely already be well-known information, while a good portion of the rest was simply reprints or lightly-edited restatements of information already published elsewhere.
With issue 3, Dragon+ starts to find its feet.The introduction to the new storyline season, Rage of Demons, is long, detailed, and contains information we haven't seen before. There's a page that links directly to curated podcasts and videos related to D&D, taking advantage of the mobile format in a novel if not wholly original way. There's a similar info-studded preview of the Sword Coast Adventurers Guide, coming out in November. The results of the community poll asking for Underdark-themed alternate spell components is here. Probably the best addition is in the Adventurers League section, where the introductory Harried in Hillsfar module, with five one-hour mini-adventures designed for level 1-2 characters, is available to view (though the limitations of the app make it viewable only, not actually downloadable).
There's other stuff here that doesn't excite me all that much: an interview with R.A. Salvatore and the sleepwalking-through-fantasy tropes 'Gauntlet Gophers' comic foremost, though I'm sure some folks out there would love both bits of content. Also, the app is still glitchy, with occasional freezes while scrolling through articles and inexplicable bounces back to the title page. But the folks in charge of this new incarnation of Dragon have at least found a path to improvement -- if they can keep walking it, while flogging their app partner to clean up the glitches in their code, then Dragon+ has the chance to become truly outstanding one day.