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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nai_Calus" data-source="post: 5056275" data-attributes="member: 79670">Yeah, these new crunch-only flavorless articles are utterly pointless and useless. Just stuff them in the Compendium/CB and note what got added each month. They don't even qualify as articles, just bland lists of crunch. CD: Bahamut was good; CD: Raven Queen was good, and I hate the RQ. Those were useful articles that helped flesh out characters devoted to them.This new format? This is useless. This tells me nothing. Hell, unless it presents must-have powers that are actually worth taking over other options, it's doubly useless. And it's annoying, because it strongly hints that we'll never see any real meat for the gods that didn't get good coverage before the change. We know more about the Raven Queen and her followers than you can shake a stick at, same with Bahamut. We still know jack-all about the rest and at this point it seems unlikely we ever will. (I haven't read the Kord article since I've been mooching off a friend for the rare articles these days I want to read, but it sounds exactly like the Traveler article, which was also complete crap.)You know, since the change I don't think there's been a single thing in Dragon I wanted to use. Little anemic dabs of fluff. Bland crunch, none of which I've felt a need or even desire to use. Despite their 'something for everyone each month' they claimed, this month doesn't have anything that applies to any of my current characters. Derp?I really wish they'd drop this and go back to the old longer articles. I don't mind a month with nothing that applies to my current characters if it has good longer articles with nice fluff I can enjoy just plain reading, or even use to inspire a new character. This? Meh. I have the coupon from the holiday PHB set for 12 bucks off a year's sub, and I can't even bring myself to use it, and I have a serious CB addiction. But since I haven't been interested in even the crunch in Dragon lately I have this 'meh, who cares, I'll sub for a month when PHB3 comes out to get the content for that and whatever I missed in the meantime' attitude.I want the fluff back. Fluff is good. Fluff is enjoyable. That Warlock article in 381 was good, because it was nice and fluffy. Bland crunchfests? Meh. I'll get it later. No need to read it now.</blockquote>

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