[Poly] What's happening to Polyhedron/Dungeon?

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Erik, thanks for responding to the needs of the majority of your readers. You have temporarily saved yourself a customer. I was about ready to drop Dungeon from my pull-list at my FLGS. I'll check out a couple more issues, and if I like the way the changes are implemented, I'll consider getting a subscription.

 

[Xorial]

While I liked some of the reading in the Poly side, I'm one of those who prefers the Dungeon side of the Mag. I like most of the changes. I agree with the Poly fans though. I would like to see Poly as a quarterly, so that it gets more content per issue. That way Dungeon can have more content too. I wouldnt be annoyed at the useless critical threat articles as much, if there were more adventure content. I havent had a subscription for a number of years, mainly because the adveture content has slipped. I started to subscribe again after 3e came out, but held off when Poly was added to the content. Decided that Poly wasnt that bad, but you went & took away ALOT of the adventure content in Dungeon. For now, I will only buy the mag on an issue by issue basis. Hope the changes improve the mag enough to tempt me back to subscribing.

 

[Dextra]

Poly & Dungeon

In our household we've always loved reading the Poly stuff- the Canonball Run article, for example, was inspired (and prompted much discussion about what other road trip stereotypes we could include as teams- I had a Priscilla, Queen of the Desert team in mind)... But we've never used a single piece from Polyhedron, whereas Dungeon is a staple at our gaming table- especially with Gen (eldest daughter, turning 12 at the beginning of September) starting to run games, we need all the adventures we can get!

I'm glad to see a publication not afraid to change, and whose staff take the time to respond to reader comments. Kudos, Paizo!

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Well I'd prefer that you dropped the mini-games and threw more support to the Living Greyhawk Journal, Call of Cthulhu D20, and Star Wars D20. I'll pick up the issues that have some of that content but that's pretty much it. Mini-games are a waste of space IMO.

 

[tmaaas]

Thanks again, Erik.

I've said it in the other Dungeon threads lately, but it never hurts to repeat a complement:

I subscribed to Dungeon with the advent of the Adventure Path series and have been extraordinarily pleased with it. Thanks for the supurb quality. Oh yes, I like the Zenith Trajectory format. Please keep using it . . . until, of course, you come up with something better.

 

[NPC]

$$$

I know I'm in a minority, but I would pay more money for a monthly Dungeon only magazine, provided I got at least three full blown adventures an issue.

 

[Artimoff]

Re: $$$

I know I'm in a minority, but I would pay more money for a monthly Dungeon only magazine, provided I got at least three full blown adventures an issue.

Me too.

 

[Simplicity]

Just a reader comment, I'm not sure I liked the Zenith Trajectory format. For those who haven't seen it, there's a little intro section on each area that describes the lighting and sounds for the area (IIRC). It seems like a waste of space to me.

The info is fine, but when I need such info, put it in the description below. Don't require each section to have all that stuff there.

My two cents...

 

[Simplicity]

Re: Re: $$$

Me too.

So would I. But, we know that argument goes nowhere quickly.

 

[andrew]

So, Dungeon and Poly now share editors and page orientation. It seems like the only thing separating the two is a second cover somewhere in the middle keeping the D&D adventures in the front from the other stuff in the back.

Why not just get rid of that artificial distinction altogether and call it one magazine, Dungeon, that has a monthly feature called Polyhedron featuring bits from the d20 world? I'd rather have one real magazine than two fake ones. They share the same binding after all!

But that's just me I guess. Out of curiosity, does anyone know of any other double magazines in one like Dungeon/Poly? I'm sure there must be a few out there, but I'm totally ignorant of them.