Pathfinder 1E Paizo no longer publishing Dungeon and Dragon

[Vocenoctum]

Because when it comes to gaming, not current events, most magazines are e-zines. Look at Steve Jackson Games and their formerly printed Pyramid. They've gone electronic. Mongoose Publishing is circulating their Signs & Portent electronically after having gone through the print circulation route.

I think a lot of magazines are losing to electronics, hard to stay timely. Being timely wasn't as important with D&D though. But, video game magazines are dying out, and I doubt even Playboy will last...

 

[Nightfall]

Voc,

The day Playboy stops being important is the day I'm sure the Porn industry can start sending more stuff out via cable subscriptions and free computers.

I mean how else are the rednecks gonna get porn?

 

[Wik]

No. No, it doesn't. Even real betrayal doesn't, and let's quit with the damn hyperbole, this ain't even close.

I'm as bummed about this as the next guy--I love both magazines--but let's at least try to keep some vague modicum of perspective, can we? The comparison to rape is both inanely stupid and hideously offensive.

Well said. IT ain't betrayal, rape, or anything like that. It just blows chunks, is all.

 

[MerricB]

You're expecting an explosion when all we'll probably get is a firecracker. I'm just saying, experience has taught me this: WotC's current management is all about being "New Coke." for the gamers.

diaglo would say that about TSR's management since about 1975.

I'd say it about TSR's management since 1983.

Cheers!

 

[Ranger REG]

So? Just because these guys went electronic means it's better for us? Really, this kind of thinking just floors me.

No, it's better for them (WotC). I understand where they going, but I also DISAGREE with where they are going with this.

How am I supposed to subscribe without a credit card?

 

[ssampier]

This sucks on so many levels. Wow may I count the ways:

1. Nobody pays for this type of online content; nobody.
2. Paizo is great company and I am sadden to hear the "best year ever" for Dragon and Dungeon will never get any better.
3. Kick in the junk is right.

 

[Ranger REG]

I think a lot of magazines are losing to electronics, hard to stay timely. Being timely wasn't as important with D&D though. But, video game magazines are dying out, and I doubt even Playboy will last...

Can't really say I'm happy for the Digital Age, not today.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

I feel really bad about this.

I can understand the increase in price between Dungeon magazine and Pathfinder, but I am not at all certain that for me personally it is worth the increase - one of the 'upsides' is that there is no advertising, but, dang it, part of the reason I bothered getting the magazine was to see what was coming out from various companies - Dungeon is, when all is said and don, a trade magazine, and the advertising is a good thing.

I will at least look at an issue, and if there is a copy that can be opened and looked at* in the FLGS then I may but it on a month by month basis. But at $20 a pop for 96 pages I do not think that I will be buying many issues. And I do realize that without advertising 96 pages is a lot closer to 120 pages of magazine in terms of content than to 96 pages of Dungeon magazine (assuming 25% of the space is used for advertising).

Now that my grumbling about prices is out of the way... I really hope that this works out for you folks at Paizo, you are getting thumped good and hard for your success, and I hope that WotC falls on its face on this. I might have subscribed to their online service had they left Dungeon and Dragon in place, having a third option would have been fine. Now they can wait until Hell freezes over. Between this and Code Monkey they deserve to have some very bad things happen to them. Let them rot.

Hell, I will admit that I am tempted to get a Pathfinder subscription just to give WotC the finger on this.

The Auld Grump, not grumpy, pissed.

* 'Cause I sure as heck ain't gonna plunk down $20 blind.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

We've just posted the first installment of the new DAILY Pathfinder Blog, with a sneak peak at the setting of the Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path and an absolutely sweet picture from Wayne Reynolds.

See, now this is what at once leaves me shaking my head and not terribly hopeful for the future of the magazines, yet looking forward to what is coming from Paizo. Both WotC and Paizo have known this was coming down the pike for a while, and when the announcement comes, you guys at Paizo are all over the matter, posting assurances to us here and elsewhere online, as well as updating your site with substantive information about the transition, how it affects subscribers and customers, and giving us previews for the future.

From WotC: nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Other than the announcement itself. Not any previews, not any commentary.

I would think it would have been a good move and a good show of faith on their part to have some kind of preview or tidbits of information about what their plan is for the future, if only to assure and tantalize and give some hope that "this is a good thing".

 

[WayneLigon]

OK, after reading about them creating a new setting/world for the Pathfinder adventure paths I'm gonna go that route on my transition options and check it out.