Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 4490405" data-attributes="member: 59506">As I said over in the poll for <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/242073-rate-d-d-4th-edition-dragon-magazine.html" target="_blank">Dragon</a>, I would rate Dungeon a 2. They still don't make maps full page and in high definition, nor do they include keyed and unkeyed versions. They also won't make their artwork full page (better for handouts or "color" for players). The adventures themselves have been, IMO, poor to good, with most of them predominantly poor. The one lone standout for me was The Last Breaths of Ashenport by Ari Marmell (available <a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/duad/20080729" target="_blank">here</a>). That adventure was a 5 by itself, and one of the reasons I gave the magazine a 2 rather than a 1. The adventure Sea Reavers of the Shrouded Crags (available <a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/duad/20080926" target="_blank">here</a>), although not a great adventure IMO (definitely has some writing issues), at least had enough interesting plots (and a wicked cool submarine<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />) for me to at least be able to use this after some story/plot modification. Other than those two, there hasn't been a whole lot that impressed me. I have stacks of old adventures (modules and old Dungeons) and downloaded free adventures (old ones from WoTC and other free download sites), so many in fact that I probably couldn't use all of them in a lifetime. The majority of them are at least as good as what the new Dungeon has provided, or better, that I just can't see a reason to spend money on it (even as good as the subscription price is). Once the free trial is over, the main reason for my even visiting the WoTC site at all is pretty much gone.-(edit: Mustrum_Ridcully shared some info over on the Dragon poll thread that may have changed my mind about this aspect a bit.) I'll just have to spend more of my time gaming again<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />, rather than at WoTC site (my game has been on hold for health reasons, but that should finally be resolved in the next few weeks). P.S.: I figured out how to set up a poll, Yeah! (I'm kind of excited about that, but I probably shoudn't be. It was so easy a fifth grader could have done it.)</blockquote>

Verification