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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 1867136" data-attributes="member: 8461">I finally got my copy today, so I can make mention of what I thought.While I like Dragon, I don't think the current format is the best one. The monthly theme this month was given three articles, and only one had a bit of crunch (two magic items and two feats). The rest of the monthly articles had nothing to do with the theme.While I think that there is some merit to the idea of having a lot of smaller articles that independantly cover the crunch, leaving room for the fluff, trying to divide it so clearly isn't helping matters, IMHO.As it stands now, I feel like the monthly themes are being somewhat underrepresented due to them taking up far less than half of the magazine's pages (even after figuring in ads and such). While it makes sense to have colums like "Silicon Sorcery", "Winning Races", and "Novel Approach" (three articles I love) not be about the theme, it seems nonsensical to have the sections on new spells, magic items, and feats be likewise divorced from what the flavor of the month is. It's great to have the crunch be more codified so it doesn't choke the fluff to death, but the current format goes too far. Things need to be reintegrated just a bit more. Class Acts has got to go though.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Oh, and I just want to add that it was great seeing Ravanna again. After a hiatus of two-hundred-forty-two issues, the rakshasa god returns to Dragon!</blockquote>

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