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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kid Charlemagne" data-source="post: 966777" data-attributes="member: 93">I remember the exact same sentiment being expressed back in the the early days.  I' ve been buying Dragon since #39.  And periodically people say things are worse than they used to be, it's human nature.  It happens with Dragon every 50 or so issues like clockwork.  In 5 years, people will be saying how great Dragon was in '03, why can't it be that way anymore?The baseball players aren't as good as the ones when they were kids.The music was better; the rivers were cleaner; the soda tasted better; the movies were smarter, and so on and so on.Everyone's first memories of any thing are always better.In the case of Dragon there's a second thing at work:  When you first got Dragon, you probably didn't have a whole lot of gaming experience, so all the ideas seemed new and exciting.  Now after many years of gaming you find that the ideas are no longer new and exciting.Guess what?  They weren't new and exciting the first time around, either - they were just new and exciting to you.  As you gain experience and knowledge as a gamer, it's only natural that you'll find that Dragon is less and less of a must-buy item.  I certainly haven't subscribed to it since issue #100 or so.  I pick and choose the issues I buy.However, I realize that it is a change within myself more so than a change in the magazine (not to say there have been no changes in the magazine, far from it).As for the covers, I'm guessing part of that is economically based.  Dragon is not a cash cow by any means, and certainly there are no blue-blooded investors trying to milk gamers for cash.  As others have noted, the magazines are owned now by the same people who ran them before, trying their best to keep alive a tradition we have all enjoyed for 25 years.As an aside, I will also note that Paizo tends to really put their foot in it each and every time they open their mouths to defend themselves.</blockquote>

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