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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 2082191" data-attributes="member: 7394">You must be a DM. I'm a DM too. It should come as no surprise that I find Dungeon to be more useful than Dragon as well. Unless you like taking all the extra crunch that appears in Dragon and applying it to your NPCs, its no wonder Dragon doesn't appeal to you very much. There's nothing wrong with that. Dragon has become a player oriented magazine. Its a one stop shopping place for little rules widgets that will help their characters. In addition to this, it is a good source of inspiration for people who want ideas for some new adventures or campaigns. The group might all get together, read an article on the Beowulf legends as they apply to D&D, decide that it sounds like a really cool campaign idea, and them put the material to use.  As for your point about Internet sites being faster with the news, you are absolutely right. The question is what percentage of gamers are actually on the roleplaying sites on a regular basis? I know it seems like alot. ENWorld is something like the 137th largest Internet community in the world. RPG.net is pretty big too, but believe it or not, the percentage of gamers who go online to any of these sites is actually somewhere in the 10% to 15% range. Hard to believe, but true, and I'm sure Morrus couldn't be happier about this when he pays his already hefty monthly fee for this website. If you don't believe me, do an informal study like Bastion Press did a while back. Go to Gen Con, or another smaller gaming convention, walk up to random people and ask them whether or not they visit these sites. The majority of these sites have little or no awareness of these websites and rarely, if ever, even visit the WotC site. I'm not saying that Dragon has relevance to everyone, but it has relevance to many of the people who read it. I enjoy it and I try to buy every issue. I don't always find something in there that I find useful, but I get it nonetheless. For me, one of those people who obsess about this game, go to the websites, chat with other gamers, and write for the game, its an institution and its an institution that I'm proud to have contributed to in the past.</blockquote>

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