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<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 5598922" data-attributes="member: 8863">Might be popular with the fans of the settings, but then they'd get a ton of letters from people who don't play the setting complaining about how the magazine was a waste of paper and their money.&nbsp; Depends on how many good submissions they get too.&nbsp; That might be why they launched the Campaign Classics feature and possibly it's one of the uses they had for the Annual, not just publicity for the settings, but an excuse to publish articlesfor them.You're right that some previous writers seem to disapper after this issue or at least in the late 2e days.&nbsp; Spike Jones is the only one that comes to my mind atm.&nbsp; But there was also a crop of regular contributors who had some good stuff in these days like Johnathan Richards.&nbsp; So it kind of balances out, and it seems this sort of thing happened throughout the magazine's run, except for Ed Greenwood who seems to be the most perennial contributor (but that's probably what happens when the homebrew you're writing about becomes published and very popular <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&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />).I don't know if it started with this issue, since I'm missing this issue and the next in my collection, but after the purchase by WotC, some of the companies that were advertising in the magazine changed.&nbsp; One of the more noticable ones is Palladium.&nbsp; The September 1997 issue has at least one of their ads, so presumably they might have been purchased long in advance or something, but they seem to stop altogether in the near future before the end of the 2e issues.&nbsp; I've read Siembieda strongly dislikes WotC or something along that line, so it seems he didn't want to support The Enemy with his advertising dollars or something.&nbsp; Whatever the case, it amuses me.&nbsp; OTOH, the magazine starts putting in new types of ads that we didn't see in the TSR days, most notably ads for anime video releases.&nbsp; There's also ads for early MMOs or I guess they're MUDs or something inbetween.&nbsp; Though in this case, some of them are pretty new at this time, so they weren't going to be advertising before, much like the e-retailers that start running ads.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Orius, post: 5598922, member: 8863"] Might be popular with the fans of the settings, but then they'd get a ton of letters from people who don't play the setting complaining about how the magazine was a waste of paper and their money. Depends on how many good submissions they get too. That might be why they launched the Campaign Classics feature and possibly it's one of the uses they had for the Annual, not just publicity for the settings, but an excuse to publish articlesfor them. You're right that some previous writers seem to disapper after this issue or at least in the late 2e days. Spike Jones is the only one that comes to my mind atm. But there was also a crop of regular contributors who had some good stuff in these days like Johnathan Richards. So it kind of balances out, and it seems this sort of thing happened throughout the magazine's run, except for Ed Greenwood who seems to be the most perennial contributor (but that's probably what happens when the homebrew you're writing about becomes published and very popular ;)). I don't know if it started with this issue, since I'm missing this issue and the next in my collection, but after the purchase by WotC, some of the companies that were advertising in the magazine changed. One of the more noticable ones is Palladium. The September 1997 issue has at least one of their ads, so presumably they might have been purchased long in advance or something, but they seem to stop altogether in the near future before the end of the 2e issues. I've read Siembieda strongly dislikes WotC or something along that line, so it seems he didn't want to support The Enemy with his advertising dollars or something. Whatever the case, it amuses me. OTOH, the magazine starts putting in new types of ads that we didn't see in the TSR days, most notably ads for anime video releases. There's also ads for early MMOs or I guess they're MUDs or something inbetween. Though in this case, some of them are pretty new at this time, so they weren't going to be advertising before, much like the e-retailers that start running ads. [/QUOTE]

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