Poll/petition Sign the "KEEP DRAGON MAGAZINE' poll/petition

[DM-Rocco]

Or the other option is that the rumors about D&D being sold are true and new management immediately goes about fixng problems like the cancelation of Dragon and Dungeon. We can only hope.

I could live with that

 

[Raven Crowking]

Yes. Look at the pattern. Doctor who originally ran from 1963 to 1989. The Paul McGann movie came out in 1996. The new series didn't start until 2005. The Trek fans similarly didn't get movies out of the original series for many years. They didn't just casually pick up where they left off.

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The evidence seems pretty clear, once production has really ceased, and the resources have been allocated elsewhere, a thing will stay dead for quite a while.

I agree in principle, though Paizo alone determines whether or not an extention of the license would be welcome, if offered. That there will be some future revival is, really, the best that we can hope for.

Well, we could hope for it to be more like the old The Dragon and EN World Gamer, too, but that's just what I would personally like to see, and not everyone's mileage is the same.

RC

 

[Vigilance]

Okay, you are taking that out of context.

When I say I am staring at a computer screen all day long, I am working inches from a screen making digital graphics. Do I like to post on ENworl and other sites? Yes I do. However, I don't like reading long articles on a computer. My point is that computers inflict a lot of eye strain. 8 hours of that is enough. I like to come home and maybe go over e-mails and perhaps scan a few boards if I have a question or something, but I don't come home after 8 hours of staring at a computer screen and want to do so for another 8 hours again, (new video games the expection.

There is a huge difference between reading something on a computer screen and something in print. Your eyes can read print much easier.

Ok... so now we see that you're willing to spend EIGHT HOURS after work "staring at a screen" if it's a hot new videogame, *AND* you read message boards every day (you have quite a few posts- and since most people read a lot more than they post- you're obviously a regular reader here) but the DI, that's just a bridge too far huh?

And yes, I recognize that there is a difference and that reading offline is a more pleasurable experience.

But you and I have both shown that we will read things online for pleasure. If you're willing to spend an hour a day reading ENW posts, but not an hour a day reading the DI, well, that just makes me scratch my head.

I think you just preferred it the old way. Which is fine, and if you had just said that, I wouldn't be prodding you. But you didn't say that. You said "I just can't handle reading online". When in fact, you have proven without a doubt, that you can, and do, daily.

When someone with one post makes that argument, I can roll with it (though even then they were *reading* the boards, they just had never been motivated to post before).

But sorry. In your case, I call shenanigans.

 

[Raven Crowking]

And yes, I recognize that there is a difference and that reading offline is a more pleasurable experience.

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But sorry. In your case, I call shenanigans.

Look, I have dozens....hundreds....of pdfs, including of my house rules. I don't read any of them online. They all get printed out. Yet I am willing to read message boards. There is a very, very big difference.

Reading and playing videogames aren't the same thing at all. No more than reading and watching TV are the same thing.

Would it have helped if he had been more explicit and wrote "I can't stand reading huge chunks of text online, supposedly for pleasure, when there are alternative ways I could be spending my time, even if those ways have nothing to do with WotC products"?

I call shenanigans on your response.

 

[francisca]

It still may not matter, but I am doing it non the less. Better late than never.

Good luck, Mr. Quixote! If you slay that windmill, PM me, as I have a few others for you to tilt against.

 

[Mercule]

Wow. Is this what I sound like, complaining about the name "Gleemax"? I'm done with that.

As far as "Dragon" and "Dungeon", I wholeheartedly embrace the change to an online format. I voted "other" because I explicitly want to see what WotC has planned rather than any knee-jerk I may have (including having a dedicated "Dragon" or "Dungeon" site/subscription, if that's in the cards).

I've actually been hoping to see "Dungeon" move online for a couple of years, now. Erik Mona said Paizo didn't have the rights to change the magizine's format, so it was a moot point. Still, I'm very excited about the Digital Initiative and these magazines moving online.

 

[WhimsyTheFae]

I voted Other...Ambivalent

 

[Anti-Sean]

I'm going to log into WotC's DI at the end of each month, print out the articles, forums posts, etc. from that month, staple them into a format resembling a magazine and read them that way. Sure, it might not be *exactly* like the old days, but I'll take what I can get.

 

[Raven Crowking]

I'm going to log into WotC's DI at the end of each month, print out the articles, forums posts, etc. from that month, staple them into a format resembling a magazine and read them that way. Sure, it might not be *exactly* like the old days, but I'll take what I can get.

Let me know how much that runs you.

Seriously, though, I print out every pdf I buy, so I can tell you it'll be a bit more than the old days.

 

[Sound of Azure]

*shrugs*

I'm content enough to let sleeping Dragons lie.

They going to do this regardless, so no sense in gnashing my teeth over it (goodness knows I visit the dentist enough as it is).