I love to read Dragon, but I don't use it.

[Cam Banks]

Ditto.

Last Dungeon adventure I used was Bane of Shadowborn, about 10 years ago. The one with the intelligent evil Ravenloft sword and the house it was stuck in.

I still buy it and Dragon, though. Since I do game design on the side as a freelancer, I figure it's good to keep up with it.

Cheers,
Cam

 

[diaglo]

ditto.

i love to read the adventures in Dungeon and The Dragon. i used to catalog the NPCs, items, places, and such for future use. but i haven't used many of them. in fact,... Mightier than the Sword by Willie Walsh dungeon 29 may have been the last adventure i used from either magazine.

still i guess it is just reassuring to know what is happening outside of my campaign world.

 

[Deadguy]

I find that whilst I don't really make much direct use of materials from Dungeon and Dragon they give me - for a fairly small monthly cost - lots of ideas that sort of mingle and mulch in my mind! So I reckon I still get pretty good value from them.

 

[Henry]

I highly recommend anyone who has dropped Dragon OR Dungeon in the past few months to the past three years to pick it back up, as a single copy at the newstand if nothing else. It's changed. I mean it's CHANGED. The last two issues have had the kind of content I used to buy it for 15 or 20 years ago. The feats/prestige class silliness has been reduced, and it's picked up on aritcles that add utility.

One thing I found about the old Dragons and Dungeons years back was that I didn't use them traditionally, either - I would rob bits and pieces subconsciously and use them. PC's got shrunk and rode crickets to fight Ant-men? I was channelling Chadranther's Bane. PC's raided an ancient Monastery? I used Dungeon of the Fire Opal, in part. Did the PC's accidentally wind up in the Nine Hells? Thank Ed Greenwood and his articles.

I've been liking the content in the two issues since the change, and I'm starting to rob again.

 

[Psion]

The last article that was so cool I had to use it was 313 or so -- the one with the insane dragons. Little things like "5 archetypes for your monk" do nothing for me.

 

[Charles Dunwoody]

I don't use the player content from Dragon because I DM. However, the sheer amount of roleplaying plus rule information in both Dragon and Dungeon make the low price of both a steal.

For around ten buck I can buy one module. Or for around five bucks I can three adventures with full color maps, mini forest ambushes, unique doors, fences and shops for characters to sell loot to complete with NPC write ups, fifty fairs and markets, and an interesting gaming column.

For around thirty bucks I can buy a rules supplement. Or I can spend around five and get a roleplaying article about Lovecraft and D&D, dream monsters, flaws for characters, some new feats, one prestige class, a discussion on traps, alternate views on some character classes, the return of the grippli, and more.

A subscription to Dragon and Dungeon is the best deal, in my opinion, for getting a large variety of new roleplaying and rule information.

 

[JoeGKushner]

I tend to like Dragon when it presents something, like the Ebon Maw, and something to use in the game around that theme. For example, that article had magic items, monsters, spells, and ideas that could be woven into a campaign at any level.

There was another one not too far after that that wrote up the Dark Creeper and Dark Stalker and some god of the Shadows (Eberus?) that I've been slowly working into my campaign.

I wish that Dragon had more monsters though. Don't get me wrong, when they do monsters, they often do a good job of it but they're usually too specialized, like this month's ice monsters. No, I'm talking about the old stuff like the Creature Catalogs (I, II, III) where some of those monsters still haven't been updated. Elder Wyrm anyone? Ah, the good stuff...

 

[Host of Angels]

I have picked up both Dragon and Dungeon on an irrelgular basis for many years now, and like several other people I have yet to use anything from the magazines. Perhaps I have been unlucky and just not picked up the good issues - but mostly I find that for the price (in the UK) I can spend my money better by buying proper supplements and splat books. However, I keep buying it occasionally just for variety in reading material...

 

[Arnwyn]

How is it I can enjoy reading these books so much, but just can't get any game use out of them?

Beats me. Weird.

If I don't get any use out a book, I don't buy/dump it immediately.

 

[Ranger REG]

Beats me. Weird.

If I don't get any use out a book, I don't buy/dump it immediately.

Ironic that the above statement can also apply to the other magazines* that you [used to] keep in your underwear drawer.

* Shadis, White Dwarf, Model Building, Fangoria, Starlog, etc.