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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ashockney" data-source="post: 3472529" data-attributes="member: 1363">Heh, hehOk, quite late to the party.This week, I've been reading through 30+ pages of this thread and catching up on details.  I got the ole' punch in the gut.  I tried to explain it to my family of non-gamers.  It's a big deal.  Yeah, whatever.To me, Dragon and Dungeon, were the great differentiator.  In seventh and eigth grade, I would travel to work with my Dad in the summers and make copiers (10 cents a page) at his mammoth xerox copy machines so that I could pool all the "best" articles from Dragon I could find.  I wanted to be a better DM, and Dragon gave me the confidence to do that.  I loved being on the inside track, as many of these articles were written by a guy named Greenwood, when a little thing called the Forgotten Realms was published. I have many great memories of reading (and stealing) things from right out of Dragon Magazine, and it's amazing cover art.  After seeing the incredible "chess piece" covers, who hasn't DM'd at least one chess-board battle?  I was so proud to have been published (albeit only a lame Forum letter).  I've been working on a module for publication in Dungeon for almost six months now.  How very, very disappointing.Farewell, old friends.So, I'm standing around with my pitchfork and my torch, wondering what to set on fire, but I keep reading.  Low and behold, Paizo looks like they're coming out pretty good on this.  I'm looking forward to Pathfinder, that should be sweet.  I've certainly been quite impressed with their adventure path series.  Rouse!  That's the one I'll burn!  Then Wizards posts their "memories".  Ok, that's amazing.  I know I'm NOWHERE near as sad as those dudes.  I'm sure they're going to let ROUSE have it 100 times worse then I will.  And they sit next to him.  All day.  Sweet.(Extinguishes torch, casually tosses pitchfork back in shed)Hmmmm...What in the hell is going on?  What could possibly be Wizards' plan that's so grand, that it would MAKE SENSE to CANCEL Dungeon and Dragon magazine.  I start looking around at my own life for answers.  Oh, here's a stack of Dragon Magazines from the last year.  I'm flipping through, and you know what, I barely touched these.  I loved getting them, but I certainly didn't spend much time reading them.  Not like I used to.  Dungeon, now these I've been pooring over lately, but mostly because I was hoping to write an adventure for publication.  The last time I ran an adventure out of Dungeon magazine was well over a year ago.  Not because I don't want to, but simply limits on time.  I send an email out to all my gamer friends, bemoaning the end of an "era".  It only garners one response, from the OTHER gamer friend who actually subscribes, but just to Dragon.  Out of about 12 guys who I've grown up with, all playing D&D for 10 - 20 years, I realize I was the only one to regularly subscribe to Dungeon and Dragon magazine.  Then I think about where I've gotten most of my gaming info lately.  Since the beginning of third edition, well, I'm sure I don't have to tell you, it's been right here. I've kept coming back, day after day, week after week, for the best, most current, most thought out, and most community driven feedback on the game I've loved.  I wouldn't have it any other way.  So, I've come to one simple conclusion:THIS IS ALL ERIC NOAH'S FAULT!!!!!!!(picks up pitchfork, re-lights torch, musters evil grin on face...)I've got some work to do!</blockquote>

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