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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 1222219" data-attributes="member: 8461">I recall the Ares section and other such similar articles. My point about them speaks for itself given that such pieces were the very first thing to go when the magazine needed to be trimmed down. That shows that the people who knew best agreed with my standpoint.Theoretically speaking, anything could be converted between systems. The point though is that it shouldn't have to be. Dragon and Dungeon are known as the D&D magazines. People buy them for the D&D content. Adding articles about other RPG systems wouldn't attract new subscribers based on people who play those RPGs, because no one wants to pay full subscription price for a magazine that has only one article of use to them. Likewise, you could convert the material yourself by hand, but no one particularly wants to have to do that in the first place. Whether or not you could is irrelevent. The people who buy those magazines for the D&D content wouldn't be happy to see articles for other systems, despite the fact that they could convert them. It simply would be seen as a hassle that should be unnecessary.You seem to be ignoring that Dragon still does have a large base of people who advertize in it, both d20 specifically and more general SF genre-related. Just take a look at a current issue's Ad Index.Ah, bliss. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Which is hardly a bad thing when you consider that the d20 system is far and away the largest on the RPG market.Simple. People want a magazine that devotes all of itself to their singular interest. It encourages an us-vs.-them attitude because that's the attitude that exists in the market. It's called business competition. WotC (who gives Paizo the rights to do D&D-specific content not covered in the OGL) has no interest in seeing White Wolf or Steve Jackson's games given more press in a magazine devoted to their (WotC's) product. Why should they? It doesn't serve them. Nor does it serve the people who only want to play D&D - it would be wasted space to them.If you only play tennis, for example, and you only wish to subscribe to one magazine, are you going to subscribe to Sports Illustrated, or to a magazine specifically about tennis. Sure you could adapt some of the articles in SI about, say, basketball, into tennis plays, but for the most part, the tennis-specific magazine will give you more for your money. Same thing with D&D.Because, in terms of business, that ("B" that is) is how it is. There will be no further split though, since WotC is canny enough not to subdivide their audience with multiple campaign worlds.Actually, saying there are D&D players and everyone else does seem like a fractional statement to me - that's how it is, after all. Likewise, given that that, as you said, is easier to write for, makes more business sense, and is more profitable...what on Earth makes you think Paizo would not do that??? They are, after all, a business, and still need to turn a profit to keep going, just like everyone else.</blockquote>

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