Pathfinder 1E Paizo no longer publishing Dungeon and Dragon

[Nightfall]

Haus,

Email Erik, James or one of the other Paizo heads. They can better explain it.


CB,

That makes two of us that agree on that disagreement.

 

[Shawn_Kehoe]

And I feel honored and humbled to have written one before Dragon ends.

On a purely selfish note: it was always a goal of mine to get an article in Dragon and a module in Dungeon, but it just isn't going to happen.

Shawn

 

[Agamon]

Not really, haus, it's an Adventure Path, like the Dungeon APs, just with longer adventures and more detail on the setting and NPCs.

 

[Nightfall]

AND the possibility of an AP with Necromancer Games stuff is becoming more and more likely to me, Ag.

Shawn,

Then hope for the failure of WotC's endevour and it might yet occur!

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Perhaps a naive question, but one for which I'm nonetheless hoping to find an answer or opinion...

Now that WotC's canceled Paizo's right to publish Dungeon and copyrighted material, do you think WotC will put out an AoW hardcover?

 

[Nightfall]

CB,

No. They'll just try harder to make the new stuff be "oo shiny!" instead of good or fun.

 

[haus48]

Then why subscribe, just wait till the books are out and reviewed and buy the adventure blocks that suit you. What I look for in a magazine is very different than what I look for in a book (in terms of time I want to spend digesting it). I think that they are going to lose a significant portion of the fan base by changing their focus. Is the whole subscription thing for pathfinder an afterthought or a trying out of a new idea.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

I support WotC gathering the Dragon and Dungeon licenses back in-house and devoting a big team to real online development.

See, I don't think whatever online offering they have in mind necessarily requires ending the magazines. Unless there was some non-compete clause in the license arrangement, why not allow the online to coexist with magazine?

If WotC wants to follow in the wake of Blizzard, they are going to seriously need to ramp up capital expenditures to build the necessary infrastructre for the backend. Heck, it is almost a comedy of errors watching the Mark of Heroes and Xendrik Expeditions campaigns try and manage a database of characters.

Is it possible WotC can pull it off... well anything is possible.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

When I found out about the decision to kill the mags, I sent WotC a little letter, saying (among other things):

I cannot help but feel that this is a mistake, and a major one. I've been a reader of Dragon since issue #44, and a subscriber since about issue #150 or so. My subscription to Dungeon started shortly after D&D 3Ed was published, when it was still Polyhedron/Dungeon. I have every issue I ever purchased.

.<snip>.

You won't find me (and I'm sure many others) subscribing to any of your online magazines post-September, either. While there are many advantages to e-publishing, the disadvantages of electronic media leave me cold.

I couldn't simply let them do this without letting my displeasure being known, even if it ultimately has no effect on their decision.

The saddest thing for me?

I was going to buy subscriptions to Dragon for all of my buddies for their birthdays this year.

 

[Zapak Vim]

I know that I will not be subscribing to any online content they are going to sell. I may read the message boards when I am at work, but at home I really do not relish sitting in front of a computer to read my "magazine." For me, magazines are for reading on the couch in the middle of the night, or taking on the bus, or reading in bed on a lazy sunday morning.

exactly. online stuff is just not the same, even if its free. I will pay for a nice magazine that I get to read when ever and where ever I want, and get to keep in the bookshlef for years, but theres no way I would pay for an online magazine