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<blockquote data-quote="Erik Mona" data-source="post: 584550" data-attributes="member: 2174">Man, I love the smell of a good &quot;screw Polyhedron&quot; thread. Nothing brightens my day like one of these, I can tell you.So though you'd probably rather hear it from Johnny Wilson, I'll happily tell you that Poly was added to Dungeon a little over a year ago to save BOTH of the magazines. In fact, Dungeon was very much on the chopping block at the time the suggestion was made. I've little doubt that Poly would have been clipped in those sack-happy days at Wizards of the Coast eventually, but Dungeon definitely had crosshairs on it for a while.Of course, when this was presented to the Dungeon fans a long time ago, the message was &quot;don't panic, Dungeon readers!&quot; There were, at the time, more Dungeon readers than Polyhedron readers. Poly, which previously had been sent only to subscribers and which most Dungeon readers didn't even know existed, had to be &quot;explained.&quot; In the doing of it, we didn't perhaps sell the message of &quot;Dungeon isn't making money&quot; as well as we could have, though I know for a fact that it was said loud and clearly a number of times on this message board and on the Wizards boards.So, lemme be clear about this:ERIK MONA: &quot;At the time Polyhedron was combined with Dungeon, neither magazine was making a profit, and both would surely have been dead within a matter of months if they had not been melded together. Adding the Poly subscribers to the Dungeon base helped the overall circulation of Dungeon significantly, and the new d20 System focus of Polyhedron brought a new brand of reader to the magazine. A year later, both magazines are doing better financially, with more people regularly purchasing, reading, and enjoying them than ever before. Truly, it is a great era for the universe.&quot;I believe my brothers Chris Thomasson (Dungeon Editor) and Johnny Wilson (Publisher) will back me up on this, since it's mentioned every twelve minutes or so around the office. It's one of those things we thought we did a better job of telling you guys than we apparently did, but hopefully this post can get the message out loud and clear.As for why we're taking the magazine monthly now, I'll leave the floor open for Johnny.Thanks,Erik Mona</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Erik Mona, post: 584550, member: 2174"] Man, I love the smell of a good "screw Polyhedron" thread. Nothing brightens my day like one of these, I can tell you. So though you'd probably rather hear it from Johnny Wilson, I'll happily tell you that Poly was added to Dungeon a little over a year ago to save BOTH of the magazines. In fact, Dungeon was very much on the chopping block at the time the suggestion was made. I've little doubt that Poly would have been clipped in those sack-happy days at Wizards of the Coast eventually, but Dungeon definitely had crosshairs on it for a while. Of course, when this was presented to the Dungeon fans a long time ago, the message was "don't panic, Dungeon readers!" There were, at the time, more Dungeon readers than Polyhedron readers. Poly, which previously had been sent only to subscribers and which most Dungeon readers didn't even know existed, had to be "explained." In the doing of it, we didn't perhaps sell the message of "Dungeon isn't making money" as well as we could have, though I know for a fact that it was said loud and clearly a number of times on this message board and on the Wizards boards. So, lemme be clear about this: ERIK MONA: "At the time Polyhedron was combined with Dungeon, neither magazine was making a profit, and both would surely have been dead within a matter of months if they had not been melded together. Adding the Poly subscribers to the Dungeon base helped the overall circulation of Dungeon significantly, and the new d20 System focus of Polyhedron brought a new brand of reader to the magazine. A year later, both magazines are doing better financially, with more people regularly purchasing, reading, and enjoying them than ever before. Truly, it is a great era for the universe." I believe my brothers Chris Thomasson (Dungeon Editor) and Johnny Wilson (Publisher) will back me up on this, since it's mentioned every twelve minutes or so around the office. It's one of those things we thought we did a better job of telling you guys than we apparently did, but hopefully this post can get the message out loud and clear. As for why we're taking the magazine monthly now, I'll leave the floor open for Johnny. Thanks, Erik Mona [/QUOTE]

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