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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM-Rocco" data-source="post: 4669420" data-attributes="member: 14451">Well, it appeared you were comparing our price to theirs and our quality to theirs.  Our page count matters in these postings since it affects our price and the number of material we dedicate to 4e versus theirs.  It is one of the ways we can try to break down the true comparison between the two magazines.  Page count also matters because at 32 pages, they will have to saddle stitch the binding, ours is perfect bound, which effects price and quality of print.  I’m sure they are offering a fine print magazine with lots of quality articles and printed on fine paper, but you have to know what our magazine is to compare the two.Also note, is appears you can buy their magazine in game stores for $2 but signing up for a mail order is $4.  So, unless you plan on getting it straight from your local hobby store every time, you will be paying more than $2 an issue.  This is another important distinction since now Dragon Roots and KQ don’t look like evil tyrants of the magazine world by charging $7.95 an issue.  If Level Up was 70 pages long, they would offer, I assume, the magazine for about the same price.  But getting into that, our subscription for the print magazine is $5.25 an issue.  So, take that for what you will, it is all relative. On a side note, I can only assume that they can somehow offer the magazine to hobby stores as part of that stores purchase of their other fine products and that is part of how they can offer it to stores to sell for $2 apiece.  Most gaming stores won’t offer to sell a product unless they can make a 60% mark up off of the buying price.  I would be very shocked to learn that Goodman games has less than a .75 cents per issue cost on the magazine.  As for Dragon Roots, this is our only product and I am not a large, medium or even small company.  I am just one man who was upset that Dragon and Dungeon magazine went out of print so I started my magazine to be print only.  We added pdfs when it cost more to ship overseas than the price of the magazine.  I have been blessed with other like minded individuals that want to see our magazine thrive and have established a team of writers, arts and editors that work for free and also want to be apart of something greater than themselves.  This is why are can offer more pages with less ads.Working for free doesn’t mean that we don’t offer quality writers.  Crothian and Raven crowking, both from ENWorld, have written for the magazine and both are very polished.  Paul Brazelton also has very comprehensive campaign building articles.  We also are blessed with Tim Kask, the original editor of Gary Gygax, AD&D and the original editor in chief of Dragon Magazine, waaaaay back in issue #1.  He chimes in with many helpful tips for players, DMs and talks about new and old editions and more.  Then there is me, which some people love and others, well, no one likes everyone, but I have never gotten a complaint on any of my articles yet, just posts JWe would love to offer gaming shops something similar to what Goodman games does, but as a one man show, we just don’t have an in that they do for printed materials in hobby shops, so we have to watch the bottom line.Well, that I am sure is more information than you wanted.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /></blockquote>

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