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Message: <blockquote data-quote="coyote6" data-source="post: 494030" data-attributes="member: 1225">Neither; D&D stands for Dungeons & Dragons, the game. Except for the one place where I typed "D&D" instead of Dragon. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I have subscribed to both since shortly after 3e started; I recently tacked another year onto both subscriptions, taking them up through 2004 or 2005, I forget (trying to take advantage of the Dragon premium -- but they ran out before I subscribed! And I already have the Dungeon premium! Argh!).Also, it's not the best of all worlds; it might be the best of all d20 worlds, but there's no non-d20 stuff at all.As for the annuals: way back when I subscribed to some Marvel comics, I never got the Avengers or X-Men annuals with my subscriptions. So while not getting the Dragon Annual is a bit disappointing -- because who doesn't want free stuff? -- it's not something worth cancelling (or even not renewing) a subscription over, IMO. Of course, I wasn't bowled over by the last Dragon Annual (#5, wasn't it? From the year before the d20 Special?). I can understand why they'd decide not to volunteer to spend what is probably a sizable fraction of their profit margin on a bonus that just buys 'em grief. I think it's a bit of a baby-with-bathwater, but hey, what with starting a new publishing company, I can see why they'd want to skip such a thing.If y'all do decide to do another Dragon Annual sometime in the future, I think publishing a mini-setting might be kind of cool, at least as an experiment. Thrown in a nice map or two, some crunchy rules stuff (that's tailored to the setting, but usable elsewhere), a short intro adventure, and voila. It doesn't have to be a whole world or continent or the like; maybe just a country, or even just a detailed city.(If nothing else, WotC will have a couple of settings that they'll have paid $20,000 apiece to get. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )Or, hey, turn the Annual over to Erik Mona & the Living Greyhawk Journal. Maybe finish that series on the City of Greyhawk, or something.Bonus, if it is newsstand-only, if people don't like it, they don't have to buy it! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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