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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 968366" data-attributes="member: 12388">Not good enough..I’m quite aware of the fact that people have different tastes.  Nothing wrong with that at all.  Nothing wrong with preferring the old over the new, even.  After all, there’s a lot to like about older issues of Dragon. However, I used the phrase “extreme subjective ranting” with regard to this not quite objective conclusion (emphasis mine):“Clearly”?  To you, obviously, but to the rest of us?  I don’t think so.  (If you’re going to write a grand, sweeping generalization like that, perhaps you might want to consider that list of exhibits at least one more time? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />) I’ve gotten more use from Dragon (and Dungeon) magazine the past 2 years than ever before (in my 17 years of gaming).  But, YMMV.  FWIW, I’ve seen several such rants-masquerading-as-arguments/conclusions (particularly with regard to the Forgotten Realms) posted on message boards and mailing lists since 3E hit the stands; all written by folks who have taken a lengthy sabbatical from gaming and returned to a vast number of changes in the game that dealt quite a shock to their system.  Of course Dragon was effected a great deal by these changes.In that regard, I can appreciate the core of where your coming from.  However, I’ve little patience for comparisons that fail to address such basic, fundamental questions as: Is the magazine still useful to DM’s?  To players?  Is it inspiring?  Is it informative?<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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