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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Buttercup" data-source="post: 767997" data-attributes="member: 990">I'm not a Dragon Basher either, and I notice that none of them have yet posted in this thread.  So I'm not sure how useful all of our opinions are to you, d20Dwarf.  But however useless it might be, <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> here's mine:I am not fond of the recent cover art, since the whole chain mail bikini school of art seems purile to me.  This isn't the place to get into a political discussion about it, and i'm not trying to.  So let me simply state that when half naked women are used to sell anything, be it a magazine, a d20 supplement or a car, it pisses me off.  It says to me, loud and clear, that these folks think I'm an object, nothing more, and they aren't interested in my business.  Now, Dragon doesn't always feature this sort of cover art.  But if they want to attract more female subscribers, I think they'd be wise to never use it.  But maybe they attract far more male gamers with art like that than the number of female gamers they repel.  In which case it's a simple business decision, and the same one I'd make were I at the helm.  Doesn't mean I like it, but I understand it.Some of the content is useful to me, and some of it isn't.  That doesn't bother me, since IMO it would be surprising if I could make use of 100% of the content of any d20 product.  I mean, since I don't use elves in my campaigns, I can't even use 100% of the PHB!  So?But since we're talking about our personal likes and dislikes here, I have no use for the fiction nor the Silicon Sorcery section.  If I want info about computer games, I'll visit Gamespot, to which I subscribe.  I read Dragon for it's relevance to my RPGs, not my CRPGs.  But I love the inserts!  Love 'em!  The current one, which is a battle map of a section of town, just rocks.  It's tucked into my DM binder just waiting for my players to stumble into an ambush by local thugs.I generally like any article Monte Cook writes, and this month is no exception.  Urban traps is useful to me also.So in conclusion, Dragon is more useful to me than not.  As long as that's true, I'll continue to subscribe.</blockquote>

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