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<blockquote data-quote="cybertalus" data-source="post: 1757775" data-attributes="member: 4400"><p>Since I've started with the weekly gaming club I've used more from both magazines than I had since the 2e years. Even back in 2e, Dungeon was always more use to me than Dragon. Often I'd take one of their shorter adventures and use it to fill out something I'd come up with myself.</p><p></p><p>The big difference between now and the 2E years is that I don't enjoy the magazines simply for reading anymore. Dragon in particular has been underwhelming me for a while now. It seems to be chock full of exactly the things I don't want: new PrCs, feats, magic items, spells, and player races. I am sick beyond sick of new player races. Meanwhile Dragon is lacking in the one thing I used to read it for (and which admittedly is most difficult to package and sell): stuff that inspires me.</p><p></p><p>AFAIC though my biggest gripe with Dragon is that every time I drop them (or consider dropping them) they come along and put out an issue or five that I actually like and wouldn't want to have missed. Then I renew my subscription and it's back to issues I have no interest in. If they're gonna not inspire me, they could at least have the courtesy to <em>never</em> do it so I can spend my money on something else. <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=";)" /></p><p></p><p>At least with Dungeon I'm building an archive of adventures I could someday run, and in fact usually when I run an adventure from Dungeon it's one I've dug out from an issue at least six months old.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cybertalus, post: 1757775, member: 4400"] Since I've started with the weekly gaming club I've used more from both magazines than I had since the 2e years. Even back in 2e, Dungeon was always more use to me than Dragon. Often I'd take one of their shorter adventures and use it to fill out something I'd come up with myself. The big difference between now and the 2E years is that I don't enjoy the magazines simply for reading anymore. Dragon in particular has been underwhelming me for a while now. It seems to be chock full of exactly the things I don't want: new PrCs, feats, magic items, spells, and player races. I am sick beyond sick of new player races. Meanwhile Dragon is lacking in the one thing I used to read it for (and which admittedly is most difficult to package and sell): stuff that inspires me. AFAIC though my biggest gripe with Dragon is that every time I drop them (or consider dropping them) they come along and put out an issue or five that I actually like and wouldn't want to have missed. Then I renew my subscription and it's back to issues I have no interest in. If they're gonna not inspire me, they could at least have the courtesy to [i]never[/i] do it so I can spend my money on something else. ;) At least with Dungeon I'm building an archive of adventures I could someday run, and in fact usually when I run an adventure from Dungeon it's one I've dug out from an issue at least six months old. [/QUOTE]
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