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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 238227" data-attributes="member: 2205">Don't put words in my mouth.  I never said I was frustrated or annoyed.  You, Flexor, though, often push the annoying line further out because you carry a very conservative gaming line and constantly bitch about stuff you don't like.  You are the one around here that I've often thought to myself should look for another BB to frequent: preferably one about OD&D or 1e.However, as I said, in this case, I think it's silly that every month someone (and it's usually someone from the same small group of someones) says exactly the same thing about Dragon.  It accomplishes very little, usually, except to drag out half a dozen or so like-minded people and an equal amount (or more) of folks who like Dragon the way it is (although they never like the Shannara issue) and find the themes useful.  These never accomplish anything because it seems very few people actually don't like the themes, or at least don't like them enough to complain about them.  I suspect most people are indifferent.  Personally, I like themes as long as they're not "overbearing" which they rarely are.  However, I'd probably say that the epic level issue is a bit overbearing: there's just too much of it, and since I have no issue whatsoever in epic level play, it makes the magazine much less interesting to me.However, that's the price you pay with themes.  Some are hit some are miss.  I can accept that and allow that occasionally there will be themes I really don't like (like epic) and more often themes I really do like.  And in general, the themes aren't really "overbearing" as you claim: there's a lot of good articles on non-theme stuff every month.  This latest may be a bit of an exception in that regard: except for the new planetouched races I didn't find anything much that I liked.</blockquote>

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