Question for dragon/Dungeon buyers

[Thurbane]

Just a quick poll to satisfy my curiosity: on average, how many people do you thnk would end up reading or using copies of Dragon and/or Dungeon that you would buy (including players that DMs run Dungeon adventures for).

Cheers - T

 

[Angel Tarragon]

About half of my group (4 people). I have every Dragon Mag from the 3.X era so far and a good portion of the 3.5 Dungeon Mags.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

About half of the guys in my current group read my magazines. They aren't interested in buying- usually because of costs- but like the 'zine & my collection of it goes back to #44, so they have a lot to browse.

The other half are not interested in it at all- they simply don't like the mags. The only time they use material out of them is when their DM is using it.

Thus, when I stop getting my print version, WotC won't get me as a subscriber because I don't like digital periodicals, about 5 other readers will be lost (unless they can scrounge the dough for an online sub of their own), and its probable that they won't gain any new readers from the rest of the group.

 

[Arashi Ravenblade]

Just me. No one else likes to look through tons of magazines to find what they want. Two guys in my group thought about it, but now that WOTC is doing their digital initiative they lost two buyers and they lost me cause I dont pay for online content.

 

[Jraynack]

I bought the magazines faithfully up until January when

a) the prices went up on both magazines

and

b) I bought my Wii

The price of those two magazines is almost as much as half of a Wii game or a WOTC book. I keep myself to a budget (of some sorts) and I can't spend my money on everything (I've got kids and stuff).

I read them, often use the maps in Dungeon since they became better with Piazo at the helm, but rarely used the articles in game. Since I am a d20 publisher, I mostly used them as inspiration for other ideas, rule mechanics, and adventures.

That's the skinny from my neck of the woods.

 

[Maggan]

Just me. If my players wants to read them, they go buy them themselves.

/M

 

[was]

someone in the group always borrowed mine..after I read them of course

 

[Thurbane]

Wow, I'm surprised how many people only read it themselves.

Surely, people buy Dungeon to run the adventures for a group?

 

[Agamon]

(including players that DMs run Dungeon adventures for).

Methinks people missed this fine print.

 

[Meloncov]

My friends would sometimes take a glance at them: enough to see if anything was relevant to their character, and perhaps read the comics. I was the only one to read them cover to cover.