DRAGON+ Issue 3

The latest issue of the DRAGON+ mobile app has arrived. You can download it on your mobile device of choice. And this one has an adventure in it! "The latest issue of Dragon+ is your guide to the Underdark, where demons are running amok. Learn the story of Rage of Demons from the creative staff at Wizards of the Coast. Discover how the tabletop roleplaying game, Sword Coast Legends, the Neverwinter MMORPG, novels, and more are coming together to tell one epic story. You'll get the inside scoop on Sword Coast Legends from design director Tim Schwalk and delve into the latest D&D novel, Archmage, featuring R.A. Salvatore's beloved cast of characters. Finally, catch up with what's happening in the Adventurers League community and get access to a FREE PDF adventure, Harried in Hillsfar, featuring the Rage of Demons storyline."

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Find it in the iOS or Android app store. It's also available for rating/comments here.

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[graves3141]

They already do. Its called "Rise of Tiamat", "Hoard of the Dragon Queen", "Princes of the Apocalypse", "Out of the Abyss", etc...

That's how we'll be getting out "secrets" from now on, methinks.

Indeed, that could very well be how WotC is thinking about the whole situation. Ideally, I'd prefer a different delivery method for my secrets. Oh well, I should probably just content myself with setting guide books from now on and be happy with that. At least it's something.

 

[gyor]

Honestly I spoiled the best parts, so I wouldn't worry about it. While this was improvement over the first issues, it nothing compared to Dragon Magazine.

 

[Staffan]

Naw, people are asking for a PDF. HTML is inadequate for a lot of reasons.

HTML (and variants) is the perfect format for presenting content on the web, because if properly written it presents itself just the way the user's experience needs it to. For a good example, look at the PRD on your phone, and again on your desktop. Or on Wikipedia, for that matter.

PDF is primarily useful if you want something to be printed. Otherwise, it's a vastly inferior format.

 

[Mistwell]

HTML (and variants) is the perfect format for presenting content on the web, because if properly written it presents itself just the way the user's experience needs it to. For a good example, look at the PRD on your phone, and again on your desktop. Or on Wikipedia, for that matter.

PDF is primarily useful if you want something to be printed. Otherwise, it's a vastly inferior format.

It's inadequate in that people use devices without net access at the table sometimes. So they want it on a reader device, which works well with PDF. Or they want to print it, which works well with PDF. Or they want to turn it into a larger document inserting their own pages into it like pictures, which works well with PDF. PDF is a versatile format for adventures, which is why everyone including WOTC uses PDFs for adventures in their back catalog rather than HTML.

 

[Cadriel]

D&D 5e deserves a magazine that includes content like Dragon magazine used to have. It doesn't, and we are the poorer for it. Dragon+ is harmless puff interviews and previews for upcoming products, but in a way it's worse than how White Dwarf has fallen from a top-notch gaming magazine to a miniatures catalog.

The upside is that, since it's just fluff, the really terrible native format for Dragon+ isn't harming any useful content. I mean, the articles are slow and annoying to read, but since it's just promo interviews and such, it doesn't lock up any stuff that I'd actually be interested in using at the table. It's annoying that the IOS web browser doesn't have a button to export the Adventurer's League preview, but at least we have a link in this thread. (And yes, it's a seriously bad interface. I read the interviews and previews, and didn't get through a single article without unintentionally clicking into a picture.) A PDF preview of a forthcoming adventure is fun but not a real substitute for major content.

It's 2015. My preferred format for a magazine would be a PDF with a print-on-demand option. HTML is nice for reading articles, but PDF is easier to archive and access at the gaming table. And let's be honest: if you aren't going to be putting out something I can use at the gaming table, I'm not interested in the magazine.

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

BTW, the adventure included with DRAGON- (sorry, no way am I calling it DRAGON+) is also going to be available as part of this season's Adventurers League adventures. So it's not really bonus content, per se; it's just an early, wider release of something that is going to be available for free anyway.

 

[JEB]

BTW, the adventure included with DRAGON- (sorry, no way am I calling it DRAGON+) is also going to be available as part of this season's Adventurers League adventures. So it's not really bonus content, per se; it's just an early, wider release of something that is going to be available for free anyway.

Well, available for free to people who sign up to run Adventurers League games. (i.e. not me)

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

Well, available for free to people who sign up to run Adventurers League games. (i.e. not me)

Hence the phrases "per se" and "wider release". Oh, and the fact that I mentioned it related to Adventurers League games.

 

[Emirikol]

I will echo. This new dragon does not service me with useful content. The app is an unnecessary waste of resources and pita to read compared to more functionality and WORD COUNT in web offering, and dragon 'staff' should should be putting their efforts into HTML instead.

Just bc ppl have cell phones doesnt mean we want Dragon on yet another clunky ad app that reads on one point font.

 

[Nikosandros]

It also keeps crashing on my Samsung Galaxy Note 4. It works fine on my iPad. Hopefully, they'll improve the Android version.