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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KDLadage" data-source="post: 699468" data-attributes="member: 88">My answer was that I preferred the old days.In all honesty, however, this is not what it should have been. I just know what else fits how I feel. This should not be taken as a mark against Dragon. Dragon, in and of itself, is a fine magazine that I  will continue to read and enjoy for many years to come. It is not the changes in Dragon that make it so that I prefer the "Golden Age" of Dragon so much more -- it is I that have changed.Consider: in the issues of the old days, back when I was a young pup, when I got Dragon Magazine it was with a wide-eyed wonder that something new and special was about to be bestowed upon me. I was in awe, not only of the things they wrote, but of the sheer depth of my own imagination. Exploring that depth, with the occasional side-journey into the imagination of Ed Greenwood or Gary Gygax, was a self-rewarding and absolutely fantastic voyage. I can still remember certain articles that piqued my interest. Sadly, I do not have the CD or the old mags any longer; but I can still see them in front of me now, as much as if they were still in my hands.A Plethora of Paladins.Good Hits and Bad Misses.The Ecology of... (which, in my mind, was read with the voice of Leonard Nimoy)The Quasar Dragon (and that best of all April Fools Issues).It is not as if Dragon has not written better articles in the intervening years since I read these. It is that I have never been that young, excited and felt as though I were apart of something quite so special as I did back then. Getting older, my games have improved -- they have gotten bolder, more adult themed (meaning that I have tackled things like AIDS and sexuality, religion and religious upheaval, racism, and so forth). But as a player, none have matched the sheer joy that I, as a pre-teen, had of rolling the "20" when I most needed it. Thus, in comparison, the shift I have in my thoughts and feelings when I read Dragon today is not thae same as those that I had back as a 12-year-old. I do not know of any adult that can match the joy of such simple pleasures from their childhood.</blockquote>

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