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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Emiricol" data-source="post: 499491" data-attributes="member: 469">I'm mostly ticked they dared claim the decision to simultaneously raise rates and lower issues advertised per year was due to complaints about a "free" issue that sold twice as well as normal.  Puh-leeze.  Business is business and I respect that, and I respect their right to make as much money as possible, but it is bad PR to use such a lame excuse.  Plus Dragon isn't USA Today - they are an official publication for a hobby, and thus have a wee bit of responsibility to those of us who plug our money down for the magazine.  I feel they've done *okay* in that regard, which is better than most such publications.All told, though, I like the magazine itself.   If I have any true gripe, it is 1) Snarfquest is gone, and 2) the cover art has gone downhill.  It has been a long time since I felt like tacking a cover to the wall in my home office.  #1 is about 9/10ths  of the Orc Pie, with #2 being the other 1/10.Sure much of it is advertorial for WotC products, but they are after all the core of D&D, and Paizo has said they'll include more generally interesting information.And, even being semi-commercial, the content is pretty good.  The above examples are wonderful - Tainted, Knights&Paladins, Swashbucker.   To that list I'd add their Castles add-ons;   the Drow articles on sociology and Lolth's tests; the Birthright Light (oops, that's supposed to be "World Building" from the April issue <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=":)" /> ) and the rules for Honor Points ("damn I wish we had a Bard with us!!").Yep, I think it is doing well, considering it is under new management (and these things always take time to settle themselves.)</blockquote>

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