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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 1793058" data-attributes="member: 5100">Amen.  The D&D game sees play by me, and we still use dice to represent critters. I love the new format of Dungeon.  Every issue since the relaunch has been a keeper.  The Wil Wheaton articles seem pointless (Wil seems nice, but the column is pretty innane), but that's my only gripe. Dragon, though, has been a royal stinker since the relaunch -- at least for me.  The "features" have been lackluster.  I don't care about the minis.  I don't care about the garbage ported from video games.  The Class Acts are meh. Class Acts is especially disappointing.  I am so bloody sick of new rules to handle customization.  We don't need tweaking and substituting.  What I'd love to see is a monthly feature that shows how to use the existing rules to build certain concepts.   I'm thinking about some of the articles from right after 3E came out.  I think they were called Class Acts, as well.  There were a few that showed how to multiclass (with, *gasp*, core classes) to build certain concepts.  The one that sticks in my mind most is one for building a priest to some FR battle god that laid out a 20 level plan of multiclassing between Cleric and Fighter (or was it Barbarian? -- I wish I was typing from home) and how it fit together and why.  I don't play FR, so the name is lost on me.  Never-the-less, articles like that gave me ideas on how to use the D&D rules creatively. As I've said in other threads, there is a glut of new crunch in D&D.  Granted, sometimes it makes sense to add things -- and suppliments like Complete Warrior, Races of Stone, and Frostburn do a great job of it. Dragon shouldn't occupy the same niche, though.  What would sell me on Dragon -- and probably make it way more valuable to me than even the suppliments -- is if Dragon focused not on adding new crunch, but on applying existing rules creatively.   This is why the Campaign Components were such a hit, IMHO.  They didn't add more complications.  They helped show how to use the rules to play a fun game.</blockquote>

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