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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sjmiller" data-source="post: 3486756" data-attributes="member: 17262">Chris, let me be perfectly honest with you, something I hope you will appreciate.  Here's what I hope for.  I want something that doesn't require me to sit in front of a computer to use it.  I want something I can hold in my hand and read while lounging in my backyard.  I want something that, once I purchase it is mine until I decide to get rid of it.  I want something that is easy to share with my other gamers.  Basically I want a magazine or a book.  I do not have a computer at my gaming table, they are not allowed.  I don't spend huge amounts of time online.  This evening, as I type this, is a rare after hours experience.  Most of the time when I am working on my games or reading game material I am reading a book.Yes, before you ask, I do have a subscription to an online gaming publication.  That would be Pyramid magazine online.  For $20 a year I get articles posted weekly, ones I can read online, or print out and read wherever I want.  They also have a full and exhaustive search system for the entire online run of the magazine, and even some of the pre-digital magazines.As for what did I use from the magazines, that's easy.  I used monsters, equipment, spells, and magic items.  I used the descriptions of the gods from the early issues of Dragon.  I used various articles with ideas on how to run games and create things on your own.  When I used something from the magazine  I used most of it with little or no preparation.  I would occasionally make special equipment cards to pass to my players, so they have a set of notes on the new piece of equipment.  The cards took a few minutes each to write up and would see all sorts of use.  I rarely used adventures, mostly because I prefer to write my own, but I would steal encounter ideas or sometimes whole encounters.  Again, it was with little or no effort.In the new incarnation of the magazines, more than anything, I want to be able to use the material away from the computer.  If using this material for or in my game requires me to have a computer at the gaming table, then it is not usable to me.  If I have to print it out, that's fine.  If I can select a whole series of articles and have them printed, bound, and sent to me, that would be even better.  The Core Beliefs series would be perfect candidates for that.  Of course, that would require that all the previous ones from the print editions of Dragon be available.You asked, so I thought you should know.  Personally, if I had my choice, I would have a monthly print magazine containing all this stuff.  The magazine could also be available online with the same content, or maybe with just a bit more.  But, really, what I want is a magazine I can hold in my hands.</blockquote>

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