I don't miss the magazines (/ducks)

[Wormwood]

. . . everyone in the group I play with, DM and player alike, utilizes the material.

Oh this too, in spades.

Another part of D&D that I never knew I was missing yet can't believe I ever did without.

 

[EATherrian]

I've just read Chris Perkins noting that they'll be back to more adventures per month pretty shortly - it's just that they've had some extra-long adventures of late.

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Cheers!

Why would the length matter since they aren't tied to paper any longer? That argument does not make sense.

As for me, I have a subscription to DDI. I looked at it twice, played with the character builder a fair bit, but haven't gone back. I just hate reading real stuff online. Online is good for small bits of info, not indepth writing. IMHO of course.

 

[Treebore]

I am happier now too. IF Dungeon and Dragon hadn't gone away I may not now have Kobold Quarterly, Fight On!, Level Up!, and Knockspell. Plus Paizo may not have made the bold decisions they made.

So yes, initially I was very saddened, but I think it has led to far greater RPG happiness.

 

[MerricB]

Why would the length matter since they aren't tied to paper any longer? That argument does not make sense.

It does when they pay by the word.

Cheers!

 

[amysrevenge]

Am I unique (or in a small demographic) this way? Have those of you who subscribe to DDI and used to collect/subscribe to the magazines (at least Dragon) found that your actual content use has gone up?

I'm with you bud. While I wasn't a constant subsriber to the dead-tree Dragon, I was a subsriber more than once (and a newsstand buyer when I wasn't). I read the magazines, but got almost zero actual game use out of them.

Now I find things I can actually use in almost every issue. Way more actual content use.

 

[Aberzanzorax]

I am happier now too. IF Dungeon and Dragon hadn't gone away I may not now have Kobold Quarterly, Fight On!, Level Up!, and Knockspell. Plus Paizo may not have made the bold decisions they made.

So yes, initially I was very saddened, but I think it has led to far greater RPG happiness.

XP for you. I agree wholeheartedly.



I frequently used materials out of both. I miss them, but Pathfinder is a very good replacement for dungeon...well, not a replacement, but a substitution. I also subscribe to Kobold Quarterly. I'm looking into the others as well.

Maybe I'm just "old fashioned", but I just don't care about a product until I read it on paper. When the "paper reader" displays get better, that may change...but for now you could give me a pdf for free and I'd still buy the paper product if I ever wanted to read it cover to cover.


I will say, though, that the 4e Dragon has been pretty good. If it were available ON PAPER, I'd likely be a happy customer.

 

[kitsune9]

I have stacks and stacks of old Dragon and Dungeon magazines sitting about 3 feet from me (about 13 magazine boxes worth). I collected them for years and years (going back to the 80s). When it was announced that Dragon and Dungeon were going the way of the Dodo (at least as far as print magazines are concerned), I had a heavy heart. I was maybe even what you’d call angry for a time.

Now, I’m much happier.

Let me say that I don’t think of Dragon or Dungeon as a magazine anymore. In my mind, I replaced the magazines with the DDI. Even notwithstanding the use of any of the “tools” (e.g. Character Builder), and just looking at the articles released under the Dragon or Dungeon label, I have to admit, the material is more useful than what the printed magazines offered me.

There was never an easy way to categorize the printed magazines and as a result I almost never (in over twenty years of D&D gaming glory) actually used any of the content. Now, however, with the ease of printing a PDF and slapping it in a folder (or just being able to save them in an easily accessible manner on my computer), I find that I actually get a ton of use out of the articles.

Am I unique (or in a small demographic) this way? Have those of you who subscribe to DDI and used to collect/subscribe to the magazines (at least Dragon) found that your actual content use has gone up?

In retrospect, I’m surprised to hear myself say that I’m glad for the DDI and even if I was presented with the alternative of having the magazines in print, I’d decline. For me, there is more value in the current format.

DDI is better for my game than Dragon or Dungeon magazine ever was.

I'm more of an embracer of tech myself in that I don't want to have the hardbound or physical stuff with me when I go to a game--just my laptop, minis, and dice. Lately, I've been thinking of going electronic with the dice too. I have a lot of dungeon and dragon mags too and would prefer to get them electronically if I were to use the content.

If I played 4e, I'd be all over DDI too.

 

[Hjorimir]

For me...

Dungeon got worse. I like having printed adventures! I don't even browse through the adventures, though I should. They'd probably help a lot with my current issues in one of my campaigns. However, the lack of a good index on the site is pretty much inexcusable. I want to easily find the proper level range, setting and so forth. Why can't I? (Yes, I know that the good folk on the Wizards boards have one, but Wizards should have one themselves).

Dragon got better. I'm not really reading the articles much at present. However, my players - through the Compendium and the Character Builder - are suddenly able to access all of its PC-building content, and they're using it. This is much more than they did before, so it's had a much greater impact on my game.

Cheers!

I think that's a valid point. For me, I just lose too much of what I consider the fun part of being a DM with published dungeons, so I don't miss it.

 

[Mr. Wilson]

I'm personally torn over the issue.

On one hand, I don't read nearly as many articles out of Dragon as I used to because I don't particular like to read PDFs articles, as I stare at a computer screen all day at work. I also miss the rotating Deity/Demonicon articles, since they appear much less frequently now. The quality of those articles were outstanding.

On the other hand, the DDI stuff is absolutely amazing and I get far more practical use out of it then I did the print magazines, which were plundered more for ideas.

 

[Jack99]

While I miss my dead tree products to bring to the can, I am definitely using dragon much more than I used to.

I also think the quality of the Dragon articles is the best it has been for 15-20 years. Dungeon needs to work on it's adventures - still.