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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 473314" data-attributes="member: 5868">Neat to see some Dragon responses.  I like what Paizo's done with the mag.  Here's some comments:Pro:- Like the "campaign components" ideas.  I got some great ideas from the "Swashbucklers" issue.  I like not having an entire issue to pimp one WOTC product (not that product tie-ins are bad, necessarily).- The Dungeoncraft and DM's toolbox articles lately have been pretty good (Monte's article on large combats is great -- looking forward to the second half).- Keep Gygax's column going.  I'm an old 1E player and like the nostalgia.- Greenwood's Elminster's Guide has lots of interesting locations.  Keep it up!- Handouts, counters, etc -- great!Con:- Art.  Now I'm not much of an art critic, but I miss the days of "realistic" style art, Dragon covers that had landscape or a scene to them.  Some of the interior art I've liked (particularly in #301), but the covers have fallen flat (I particularly disliked #299).Dragon covers from 65-150 are more my style (#126 my all time favorite).  I'm sure I'm in the minority here, though.- Taglines.  Hate'em.  Dragon is better than some two-bit tabloid, so why make the magazine look like a two-bit tabloid?  Yeah, newstand sales, I got it, but don't have to like it.- The character sheets -- I liked the offering in #301, but is there a back page to it, for the rest of the character stats?Dungeon -- I love (similar gripes with Dragon), though I dislike the Poly inclusion.  I buy Dungeon for D&D, so Poly's just wasted pages.  But this has been discussed to death elsewhere. (I'd rather see Dragon/Poly and Dungeon/LGG myself, but whatever.)A last question on distribution.  I'm a subscriber, in Atlanta, and usually see my magazine about the 23d-25th of the month.  Usually the contents of the magazine are up around here on the 12th or so, and most discussion about the current contents (the "I just got #302" comments) begin about the 15th or so (and end by the time I have my copy <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=":(" /> ).  Is this because I'm a subscriber, and everyone else gets their copy in stores, or ...?</blockquote>

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