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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Harlock" data-source="post: 818904" data-attributes="member: 4545">I tend to agree with a couple of things I've seen in this thread.  Firstly, the fiction in Dragon usually doesn't bother me too terribly much, though the Georeg RR Martin excerpt was terribly long and didn't add anything at all to my game, so it seemed sort of wasteful.  I've often thought that Dragon should shoot for statting out characters as suggested in this thread, or pulling out plothooks, locales, etc. for use in a homemade adventure.  I think people are actually much more likely to even read the fiction if they show them it can have some use in their game.  Also, I'd hope that in the future Dragon would keep the fiction down to less than 20 pages.  If you look at the Dragon that had the Martin novella in it and count ads and the fiction as something you could not use you end up with roughly 40% of the magazine that is not useable.  Were the fiction kept on the shorter side and stats either presented in summary or within the story as sidebars, then I can definitely see the fiction in a more positive light.  Meh, we'll see what happens.</blockquote>