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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Khaalis" data-source="post: 6400060" data-attributes="member: 2167">I think the only real future for Dragon & Dungeon mags will be if they provide some form of digital content and then offer bound compilations Annually (hardbound) or Semiannually (softbound).  The Core issue is the demand for such content has Drastically reduced over the years. In the magazines' heydays they were pretty much the Only frequent source of new gaming material on the market. That's just not so anymore. In fact the mags have really become a very tiny fish in a very large ocean of game material producers whether they be other game companies or simply the proliferation of amateur work shared on forums, blogs, etc. In those days, if you created something new and interesting, you pretty much just shared it with your local game group. If you wanted it to see light amongst the entire community, you tried to get published in the mags. Now-a-days you just set up a blog or share it on a site like EnWorld and you've reached thousands.So yes, overall, I feel as though the market for the mags is pretty much gone at least in their former incarnations. IF they go to a semiannual or annual release of official new game content and official adventures, they might be able to sell them, but we already know that the splat book model (which basically these would just become part of) never brings in as much business as the core, so it simply may not make enough financial sense to continue on with them. That is assuming they plan to make money off them.The only other option is to provide them as a Service to loyal fans such as: "As a form of thank you for playing D&D and buying books, we are providing this free monthly content to anyone who registers on our fan site."   However, the content would be less per month than a full magazine worth of content each month. Though if they even provided one adventure and one useful game mechanic oriented article per month, they would have a substantial set of material to release in say an Annual PDF for all those who'd prefer a single source for their material rather than 24 bookmarks in their browser, or 24 individual PDFs floating around. Though they would still never make much money on this. It would be more of a complimentary publication meant to garner a little brand loyalty rather than to really make much profit.</blockquote>

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