Dragon Editorial: Players 1, DMs 1

[Fallen Seraph]

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With a year passed of 4e new changes will be brought to Dragon and Dungeon. The main difference being the focus of Player and DM material. The Dragon will focus on Players while Dungeon will focus on DMs.

New articles on classes will be appearing each month to give Players more options. As well as continuing normal Player focused material.

Dungeon will be taking on the role of the carrier of DM focused material such as; Bestiaries, Demonomicons will be in Dungeon along with the normal Dungeon material.

 

[doctorhook]

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With a year passed of 4e new changes will be brought to Dragon and Dungeon. The main difference being the focus of Player and DM material. The Dragon will focus on Players while Dungeon will focus on DMs.

New articles on classes will be appearing each month to give Players more options. As well as continuing normal Player focused material.

Dungeon will be taking on the role of the carrier of DM focused material such as; Bestiaries, Demonomicons will be in Dungeon along with the normal Dungeon material.

I wish I could see it at the moment, but their server is down.

Honestly? It's not a bad idea. I have a subscription, and I love it, but I don't honestly look at Dungeon much, because I'm not currently using any of its adventures! Some might say, "Hey, but this just means there'll be less in Dragon!" Well, it sounds like they're planning on beefing up the number of articles by adding a monthly feature for each campaign setting they've published. Right now, that just means FR, but soon it will mean FR and Eberron, and soon enough it might be five or six separate features; that's a lot of goods.

Without having seen the article myself, I give this a preliminary thumbs up!

 

[Fallen Seraph]

They outright said in the article that it will mean a increase in the amount of articles.

But yeah I am the same, I barely glance at Dungeon and usually only download the full PDF of Dragon. This will change with this new set-up.

Also, damn! I am fast I managed to get just before the site went down.

 

[Shroomy]

Since you can't get one without the other, I'm not sure how much of a difference this will ultimately make to me. However, I hope Dungeon will still feature 3 adventures per month.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Since you can't get one without the other, I'm not sure how much of a difference this will ultimately make to me.

That's kinda what I was thinking. I certainly have no objection to the new split of materials, and as both a reader and a writer, I'm all for an increase in the number of articles. It just seems that the question of where a given type of article goes is almost purely cosmetic.

My guess is that they wanted to increase the number of articles, but also keep the two magazines at the same relative size to one another, rather than increasing one but not the other.

ETA: Or maybe they're finally getting Chris a co-editor, and figured the best division was to put one guy on each magazine, with each being of roughly equal size. I'm just guessing, but I'm sure Chris would love the help.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

Since you can't get one without the other, I'm not sure how much of a difference this will ultimately make to me. However, I hope Dungeon will still feature 3 adventures per month.

I imagine it will get more people in general checking out Dungeon. Besides making sense to put DM material in Dungeon I bet WoTC saw the number of people checking out Dragon articles compared to Dungeon was skewered so they are trying to balance it out.

 

[Glyfair]

That's kinda what I was thinking. I certainly have no objection to the new split of materials, and as both a reader and a writer, I'm all for an increase in the number of articles. It just seems that the question of where a given type of article goes is almost purely cosmetic.

It might be that they have been looking at the "Best of..." collections and realizing that the Dungeon one is light on material.

 

[ppaladin123]

I thought the player/DM distinction was what separated Dragon and Dungeon already. How is this different?

 

[Fallen Seraph]

I thought the player/DM distinction was what separated Dragon and Dungeon already. How is this different?

Mainly in that stuff that only DMs could use like the Bestiaries and such will be taken over to Dungeon and in its place material oriented just at Players will be in Dragon.

 

[Scribble]

It fits with the rest of the way the stuff is laid out. Most of the books out there now seem to have a definite DMs book, and then books mainly geared towards players (that DMs might want as well.) So when they do finally do the annuals they can keep to the pattern?