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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6066862" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 303: January 2003part 2/9Scale Mail: They manage to find a letter that's unreservedly positive about issue 300, with their only little niggle that the forum is long-gone. Unsurprisingly, they blame the internet for that. You've got to move with the times, and enough people have that it no longer got a decent number of letters. So they definitely aren't going back on that decision. We get a request for more tie-in adventures, so the themes in Dragon and Dungeon are even more closely co-ordinated. Be careful what you wish for. Before you know it there'll be even more pressure to catch 'em all around here. A letter that points out that in some ways, issue 273's swashbuckling stuff was better than 301's. It was certainly better referenced. See, this is the problem with covering the same topic again too soon. You need to give it at least 5 years or so for there to be a decent amount of audience churn, otherwise everyone'll remember and compare them. The character sheet from issue 301 gets a surprising amount of commentary. It's pretty, but maybe not the most practical design. Character sheets always wind up a mess after a year or two of weekly use, adding experience, equipment, and regularly taking damage. A pristine character sheet is like a perfectly made bed. Going to that much effort every day is a waste, but you should do it sometimes, really. Another letter about issue 300 points out that it's actually less scary than most Stephen King novels, and those are considered entirely suitable for kids these days, despite there being a fair amount of sex and gruesome death in them. It's amazing what a difference marketing and familiarity makes. And finally, we have an amusingly dogmatic letter from an old-school reader who isn't entirely happy with the way the magazine has gone in recent years. Gygax is the only really good thing left in it. Looking at his writing style, I can see why he thinks that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Zogonia meets a foe who forgoes the usual minion system. This is actually more scary. Dork tower suffers from selective memory loss, just like everyone else.</blockquote>

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