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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RichGreen" data-source="post: 915469" data-attributes="member: 2039">my viewsHi,I've been buying Dungeon on and off since issue 4, and have bought every 3e issue. When I first heard Poly was being added to Dungeon, I wasn't exactly thrilled. However,  nine or so issues on, I've liked a lot of it and think it deserves to stay. Note that although I've played many different RPGs over the 23 years I've been gaming, I've played D&D almost exclusively since 3e. The Good Stuff - News, interviews & reviews of d20 products and companies.- Shadow Chasers, Pulp Heroes, Spelljammer (excellent!), Thunderball Rally & Hijinx mini-games. I haven't played any of them, but enjoyed reading them.- Delta Green adventure- Improved Initiative - d20 content from d20 publishers such as FFG. More of this would be good!- Global Positioning Maps- Living Greyhawk Journal -- The Bright Desert article was superb and I would like to see the rest of Oerth covered in similar articles seeing as Greyhawk fans are never going to get any further support from WotC.The Dodgy Stuff- Godlike -- OK, but took up four valuable pages.- Downer, Bolt & Quiver -- not funny. Downer also takes up 2 or 3 pages that could be used for something else.The Dungeon content since 3e has been great -- some excellent adventures (Headless, Razing of Redshore, Storm Giant's Keep, the Adventure Path series), Critical Threats, nice colour maps, the counters etc.However, since the magazine has gone monthly, I've been somewhat shocked (like a lot of others) by the drop in page count for Dungeon and the number of adventures, the main reason I buy the magazine.  I'm not a subscriber any more (after the debacle surrounding UK subscriptions) so don't get the bonus subscriber adventure. I was pretty shocked that issue 99 had only one adventure in it!My suggestions:1. Get rid of Downer & use the pages for something else (see Good Stuff above)2. Put the long adventures in the "Dungeon month" when there is no mini-game  in Poly. Run shorter adventures in the "Poly month". There should be a minimum of three adventures per issue. 3. Keep Critical Threats and Maps of Mystery to one of each max in Poly month to make room for more adventures. Run two of these in the Dungeon month.4. Continue with Living Greyhawk articles like Zeif (in the stand alone LGG) and The Bright Desert.5. Consider doing some more old D&D settings as minigames -- how about Al-Qadim/Arabian Adventures or Dark Sun? 6. Post some of the maps from the adventures on the website as WotC did. Put a password in the magazine if you want to restrict this to Dungeon buyers. 7. Do the same with the counters.8. Conduct a reader survey!Overall, I think the Paizo team are doing a good job and have improved the magazine. I look forward to getting each issue -- the stuff above would helpimprove the situation since the magazine went monthly.CheersRichard</blockquote>

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