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<blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 3464703" data-attributes="member: 40177">I got about halfway through this thread, and had to stop.&nbsp; I was having a good day until I saw this thread - and I thought it *had* to be a joke (and an old joke - no one makes 12 pages of posts in one day!).&nbsp; When I found out it wasn't...When I was a bit younger, DRAGON was the best thing out there.&nbsp; I never had a whole lot of money, and rather than plunking down a bunch of money for a TSR Book, I could buy a DRAGON mag and still have a bit of cash left over for, y'know, NON-nerd things.Even now that I can afford more products, picking up DUNGEON and DRAGON are still my favourite purchases - it's one of the reasons I never subscribed.&nbsp; Buying a mag was like picking up a whole slew of D&amp;D material, without really hitting your wallet.&nbsp; I have shelves of mags.PATHFINDER sounds alright - definately worth checking out.&nbsp; A book that you subscribe to is kind of neat... and 96 ad-free pages sounds fairly decent.&nbsp; It could definately be worth checking out, although I really wish each &quot;issue&quot; wasn't so focused - I want there to still be a source for &quot;Monsters of Mesopotamia&quot; without having to wait for the highly-unlikely &quot;Mesopotamia-Theme&quot; book to come out.&nbsp; Plus, whie I'm having the time of my life running the current AP, I'm not sure I'll be running an AP again for some time.But, yeah, I'll be checking it out.&nbsp; I think I might just plunk the cash down for a subscription.As for the wotc online content...Probably not.&nbsp; My brother has a bunch of Stolen PDFs that he loaded onto my computer (relax, they're all copies of books that either he or I own in print, loaded onto the comp for so-called &quot;convienience&quot;) and, truth-be-told, I can't stand reading them.&nbsp; I don't like PDFs - I like having books on my shelf.&nbsp; I like being surrounded by a pile of books when I make a PC.&nbsp; And, most importantly, I feel like I &quot;own&quot; a book - online content (that is, most likely, going to be copy protected, meaning it's going to be pretty hard for me to duplicate the stuff for personal use, unless I want to kill my printer by printing off pages and pages of it) just doesn't do that for me.What happens if I plomp down the cash for a subscription and then wotc decides that, hey, let's be sporadic with our updating?&nbsp; Or, hey, let's update our site with some program that Wik's dying computer can't run?Not to mention the fact that all the money I put down for &quot;my&quot; subscription means absolutely nothing if the power or internet goes out.&nbsp; Yeah, I won't be picking up wotc stuff.&nbsp; In any case, I'm going to miss my mags, and I hope that wotc realizes the error of their ways and starts reprinting the mags... preferably under Paizo's ownership.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wik, post: 3464703, member: 40177"] I got about halfway through this thread, and had to stop. I was having a good day until I saw this thread - and I thought it *had* to be a joke (and an old joke - no one makes 12 pages of posts in one day!). When I found out it wasn't... When I was a bit younger, DRAGON was the best thing out there. I never had a whole lot of money, and rather than plunking down a bunch of money for a TSR Book, I could buy a DRAGON mag and still have a bit of cash left over for, y'know, NON-nerd things. Even now that I can afford more products, picking up DUNGEON and DRAGON are still my favourite purchases - it's one of the reasons I never subscribed. Buying a mag was like picking up a whole slew of D&D material, without really hitting your wallet. I have shelves of mags. PATHFINDER sounds alright - definately worth checking out. A book that you subscribe to is kind of neat... and 96 ad-free pages sounds fairly decent. It could definately be worth checking out, although I really wish each "issue" wasn't so focused - I want there to still be a source for "Monsters of Mesopotamia" without having to wait for the highly-unlikely "Mesopotamia-Theme" book to come out. Plus, whie I'm having the time of my life running the current AP, I'm not sure I'll be running an AP again for some time. But, yeah, I'll be checking it out. I think I might just plunk the cash down for a subscription. As for the wotc online content... Probably not. My brother has a bunch of Stolen PDFs that he loaded onto my computer (relax, they're all copies of books that either he or I own in print, loaded onto the comp for so-called "convienience") and, truth-be-told, I can't stand reading them. I don't like PDFs - I like having books on my shelf. I like being surrounded by a pile of books when I make a PC. And, most importantly, I feel like I "own" a book - online content (that is, most likely, going to be copy protected, meaning it's going to be pretty hard for me to duplicate the stuff for personal use, unless I want to kill my printer by printing off pages and pages of it) just doesn't do that for me. What happens if I plomp down the cash for a subscription and then wotc decides that, hey, let's be sporadic with our updating? Or, hey, let's update our site with some program that Wik's dying computer can't run? Not to mention the fact that all the money I put down for "my" subscription means absolutely nothing if the power or internet goes out. Yeah, I won't be picking up wotc stuff. In any case, I'm going to miss my mags, and I hope that wotc realizes the error of their ways and starts reprinting the mags... preferably under Paizo's ownership. [/QUOTE]

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