Only ten articles in Dragon this month?

[moxcamel]

She's probably on Hasborg's Board of Directors. It's a 25-year-old personal and corporate VENDETTA!!!

We've never seen Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner and Lorraine Williams in the same room together. I'm just sayin...

 

[Phaezen]

Given the higher quality of articles recently, I am not too perturbed to be seeing less in the short term. The articles for February do look interesting and if they are all as good quality as what has been released this month then I would call February a good month.

 

[moxcamel]

Given the higher quality of articles recently, I am not too perturbed to be seeing less in the short term. The articles for February do look interesting and if they are all as good quality as what has been released this month then I would call February a good month.

Yeah but there was a time we used to get quality and quantity.

 

[GameDoc]

Initially, Dungeon was mostly for players and Dragon mostly for DM's. It's not like you get to pick one or the other anymore. You pay your subcription and get both or you don't subscribe and get neither.

Given that the main reason for the separation is no longer really functional (especially if they aren't going to bundle them up separately in any way) AND they have greatly cut content, why not just combine the contents into one?

At this point they are just seperate sub-sections of the same section of the same website.

Just call it "Dungeons & Dragons Insider Magazine." Start runnning it more like an online periodical.

At this point I don't think they can capitalize on any nostalgia for the old titles.

That post sounded pretty grumpy, which wasn't my intent. Especially becasue:

Given the higher quality of articles recently, I am not too perturbed to be seeing less in the short term. The articles for February do look interesting and if they are all as good quality as what has been released this month then I would call February a good month.

Less quantity exchanged for more quality is great by me. What I was really siggesting is that holding on to the old Dragon/Dungeon magazine format may not really be the best approach. They might do better just to rebrand the whole thing as part of this new approach to having R&D do extra quality assurance.

 

[Kralin Thornberry]

Something larger is going on, and I suspect nobody is going to like it when they finally have to fess up about it.

Problem is, even when they make a statement and don't deliver on it (i.e., that the newest ToCs would be up before the end of this past weekend -- which they weren't, and that the January EoDS would be up on Monday -- which it wasn't), they won't fess up to it or even comment on it.

 

[the Jester]

Given the higher quality of articles recently, I am not too perturbed to be seeing less in the short term. The articles for February do look interesting and if they are all as good quality as what has been released this month then I would call February a good month.

I hope "Less" or "Worse" is a false dichotomy here.

 

[Mapache]

Maybe they brought Lorraine Williams back on board?

Nah, they haven't anything Buck-Rogers-related…

 

[Zaukrie]

Yup, it's getting to be less and less. Hard to believe, given that they have two or three unpublished books sitting in development. You'd think you could publish a magic item or three from the cancelled Emporium every week....not that hard.

 

[Obryn]

I'm letting my sub lapse this month. If I hear that content has improved from the folks here and elsewhere, I'll re-up for 3 months.

I'm cautiously optimistic, but I haven't seen much of anything that I really need of late. The Eldaarich article was the only one that pinged my radar in the past few weeks.

-O

 

[aco175]

I have no idea what is going on over there, but I wish they figure it out and keep the game alive. Is this a Wizards/ Hasbro thing with the ecomomy not in full swing and profit margins and such? It would be sad if that was the only case for withering. Was there this skepticism when TSR was in trouble and Wizards bought them. I remember some arguements about a new edition causing the end of the world.

Like I said, I hope they figure it out.