Dragon/WotC conspiracy article

[WayneLigon]

That was pretty amusing. Sounds like someone realized 'man, I've sat on my keister all week and not done the column... what to write about... oh! Oh yeah!'.

 

[Turanil]

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA...um, does this guy know about White Dwarf? Wizards are just catching up with what GW have done for years...of course Dungeon and Dragon (and Paizo) exist primarily to market and promote WoTC product.

Do not compare White Dwarf to Dragon Magazine. Granted, DraMag is to WotC what White Dwarf is to Games Workshop. However, did you read White Dwarf? It's crap. It's mainly full of adds and photos for miniatures. In the origin, White Dwarf was really good, and I loved it. However, as soon as it was bought by Games Workshop it instantly became a crap of advertising near-only catalogue. And you have to pay for that. On the other hand, Dungeon and Dragon Magazine are really magazines, and they are good. BTW, I don't want to have them speak of something else but DnD / d20. I buy them for DnD, not another game that I don't care for.

 

[Andy_Collins]

I find it a bit ironic that in an "article" that purports to reveal the "non-journalistic" nature of Dragon, the author apparently hasn't done any "research" on the topic.

Is that "enough" "finger-quotes" for one "sentence"?

 

[LordVyreth]

i miss Wormy

I miss Yamara. I also admit I liked the days when Dragon's reach was slightly broader. I liked the RPG Review section that others mentioned, and the Software review article, especially when the Lessers wrote it. Though considering how far the video game world has come since even those days, it might be hard to have that article these days.

 

[JPL]

I find it a bit ironic that in an "article" that purports to reveal the "non-journalistic" nature of Dragon, the author apparently hasn't done any "research" on the topic.

Is that "enough" "finger-quotes" for one "sentence"?

Andy Collins is probably the guy who goes to the different game studios and threatens them until they drop all non-d20 systems.

Possibly while wielding Gary Gygax's mace +1.

 

[thundershot]

Bah! The entire article is just a cover up by Erik Mona to keep people from complaining about Polyhedron being in Dungeon.



Chris

 

[silburnl]

I remember Dragon and White Dwarf from the days they were good.... especially White Dwarf when it had a lot of good monsters and scenarios for various games before it was just the GW house organ.

White Dwarf was always a GW house organ. Even when it was good (back in the double digits) it was a GW house organ and its sole editorial purpose was to foster interest in GW's stuff - the thing was that back then GW was much more a distributor/licensor, so they were in the business of covering lots of different games 'cuz they made their money serving the general UK gaming market (with figures, dice and such like) and taking a distribution cut on US imports for books and rules, so GW's line was anything that grew the market was good for the company and WD had lots of different articles covering lots of different games.

The 'rot' started to set in sometime around issue 50 when GW decided to get in to the publication game on their own account - suddenly there was a bunch of articles in WD for their Judge Dredd game or Golden Heroes or whatever and anything that directly competed (Champions say) wasn't getting a look in.

Things really went to pot two or three years later (about #90) when they decided to go become a pure-play WHFB/WH40K spikey minis company and abandon PnP RPGs entirely. WD's editorial line changed to fit company policy of course, because that's what WD had always done.

Regards
Luke

 

[Samothdm]

I find it a bit ironic that in an "article" that purports to reveal the "non-journalistic" nature of Dragon, the author apparently hasn't done any "research" on the topic.

I totally agree. I tried to "call out" the author of the article and mention this in the comment section of his article, but he hasn't responded yet. Also, I typed it way too fast so it's full of typos.

 

[wingsandsword]

I miss Yamara. I also admit I liked the days when Dragon's reach was slightly broader. I liked the RPG Review section that others mentioned, and the Software review article, especially when the Lessers wrote it. Though considering how far the video game world has come since even those days, it might be hard to have that article these days.

I miss Knights of the Dinner Table. I still can't believe that it's just "contractual negotiations" or whatever that is keeping the Knights out of Dragon. WotC/Paizo has got piles of money, so I can only imagine that KenzerCo is either asking for an exorbitant amount for them to be in one monthly one-page strip, or they just don't want them in magazines other than their own (I haven't checked, is KodT still in the Rifter?) I know most of my friends and myself first found the Knights thanks to Dragon.

 

[Jim Hague]

Maybe what it meant was that they could not publish a d20 system version of a game and still publish a non d20 system version of the SAME Game, i.e. that is why there is no Vampire: d20 Masquerade, and the 7th Sea roll n' Keep system is gone.

*bzzt!* No, whoever was telling you this is incorrect. With a very few exceptions (Swashbuckling Arcana, the Villains book, and I think the monsters book), AEG's still putting out books with the RnK system under the Swashbuckling Adventures line. Dual-statted.