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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Terraism" data-source="post: 767437" data-attributes="member: 278">Well, I can point out what I do like from Dragon, first off.  I really enjoy most of the Wizard's Workshop articles.  I've always liked the Ecology articles, and I'm glad that they've started showing up again, though I'm starting to think it was a one-time thing, since I haven't seen once since 301.  (There could've been one in 303, which I missed.  I need to find a copy.)  I miss the old style, though, with a story up above and notes on the creature in footnotes.  It always made it seem like I was reading a firsthand field journal, or something similar.  One of my favorite things about the Dragon Archive Collection is the ability to sit and just read Ecology articles.  In a similar vein, I like the "Elminster's Guide" bits, though I might wish that they weren't quite so Faerun specific.  They're easy to change, though, so it's not a big deal.Moving on, there's a bit that I'm missing nowadays.  I'd always enjoyed PC Portraits - that's the kinda thing that's really useful to have, and just one nice little touch to have in there.  The special character cover sheets they had in issue 301 & 302 were wonderful, and I wish they'd continue the trend - though, even better would be if the put them on slightly heavier cardstock, like the battlemap inserts.  (Yes, I realize that they were really a kinda ad for someone's cover sheets, but I liked having 'em in Dragon.  Something else to look forward to each month.)  Recurring articles are lots of fun, because something that a periodical can do that print products can't is give you something to look forward to.  I'm happier with more recurring articles than features, which is the opposite of how it's running now.  The prestige class column was such a thing, but one caveat is that I prefered the p-classes that were pretty specific (don't give me a "duelist" p-class.  Give me a "duelist of the gray cloak," and tie it into another article in the issue.  More fun that way, at it makes it prestigious..)What I'd love to see, on that topic, is some game content that goes with the fiction in each issue.  Someone mentioned once that an article that went alongside the fiction that showed us how to stat the characters in the piece would be nice - it'd be wonderful, in my opinion.As far as things I don't like.... hmm... I'm not a big fan of the Silicon Sorcery articles, and I barely read the campaign setting issues (Shannara, and Song of Ice & Fire next month.)  If they wanted to do something like that, I'd be happier if it was a recurring, several pages per month method, in which they spent a year detailing a setting.  It'd give 'em time to do a better job, too.I think that's about it.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />[Edit] Something I wasn't going to mention, because it's been brought up so much, but the artwork & content.  I'm not so worried about censoring the content, like in the "Vile" issue, but I'm not a fan of the so-called "cheese" art like the succubi on the current issue, or even the Foglio April issue some time back.  [Shrug]  Maybe it's 'cause I'm a prude, but I don't like seeing half-naked people when I'm looking at a magazine.  Don't like reading it in public in that case, either.  (Note - a similar case can be made for extremely bloody artwork, but I don't think I've seen any of that in a long while.)</blockquote>

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