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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6257528" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 358: August 2007part 1/680 (100) pages. On issue 345, we had a frost giant. Now we have a fire giant so the equal rights people don't get all worked up. They're as bad as elves and dwarves for bickering, just not as common. So yeah, let's see if they've managed to find some new topics to cover even this late in the game, or they'll be caught up in repeats and retrospectives. Scan Quality: Good, unindexed, Ad-free scan. In this issue:Editorial: Our editorial this month is a paean to the reliability of the magazine. With one particularly nasty exception, it's been delivered to people's doors reliably every single month since 1979. It may not have always been great, but the important thing is that it was there, when so many other things, including their other magazines, fell by the wayside. That really does count for a lot, and is why people both got so attached to it, and maybe sometimes took it for granted. For all that we crave adventure and discovery, if there isn't a consistent world behind us to return too, it ceases to be fun and becomes desperate searching for a new home instead. So it is with roleplaying. If there aren't a consistent set of rules behind your fantastical adventures, it'll soon turn back into freeform let's pretend. So here's to having a structure and rhythm to our lives, however we create it. The rhythm of my life will certainly have to change a fair bit after this is over. From the publisher: As the announcement of the magazine's demise was fairly sudden, they have to deal with some serious loose ends with regards to subscriptions. To minimise rants about being cheated out of their money, they're offering three different ways you can exchange your remaining issues for other books of equivalent value, or a full refund if none of those suit you. Which is definitely a lot more consideration than WotC showed to their customers and other companies with informing them what was going on with the GSL terms beforehand and pulling people's .pdfs. They also show they have a clear idea what they're going to do next, putting their primary focus into monthly adventure path material that's not too dissimilar to what they were doing anyway, which also contrasts with WotC's frequent changes of direction over the past few years. Having a plan, any plan and sticking to it works better than no plan at all, or constantly changing plans due to executive meddling. Looking at this, it's not hard to see why Paizo has maintained a greater degree of public goodwill than WotC in the intervening years.Scale Mail: Nothing surprising here. Readers old and young, long-term and recent all mourn the passing of the magazine, some despairing, some hopeful that the electronic issues will carry on it's legacy just as well as ever. If you don't have all the back issues, snap them up now, because once they go out of print, that's it. So long, and thanks for all the [strike]fish[/strike] Dragons. What more is there to say? Since it wasn't a sales thing, public protest won't do anything to stop it. Just got to look to the future, while not forgetting the past.</blockquote>

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