Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolfen Priest" data-source="post: 471700" data-attributes="member: 3909">I agree with Eric.  I usually buy them (both) off the newsstand, although I too am seriously considering just subscribing to both.  Dungeon, although a little pricey, has dramatically increased it's production quality over the past couple of years, and I still think it's one of the best d20 gaming resources available.Also, while I was starting to get pretty tired of Dragon during the last few months, I think that Piazzo (can't think of the company's name who took over Dragon) is starting to listen to people like us on these boards, by making the mag far less rules-intensive.  I mean Christ, if we're reading the magazine, we own the core books; how many more new rules, items, and PrC's do we really need?  Instead, they seem to be leaning the focus more toward aspects of (go figure) playing the game, like how to run a certain kind of encounter (for example, running a combat with large numbers of enemies), how to design a better plot, etc.The recent Dragon article on pacing was SO helpful to me that it's convinced me that I should get a subsription, and that Piazzo (or whatever it's called!) is improving on this once-great, lately-lame magazine.Note to the publishers of Dragon:  when are you going to listen to your readers and eliminate the fiction section?  Fill up that (relatively large) space with articles, any kind of articles!  Even if it means putting a few more ad spaces in there, I think most readers would find it well worth it.</blockquote>

Verification