Should Dungeon and Polyheadron be in the same magazine

[pogre]

Hey, I let my Dungeon sub lapse - not out of hatred or overwhelming frustration, but mostly because it just was not as good for me as when 3E started. A lot of that had to do with the change in format. However, I would love to go in on a subscription with someone who wants the Poly side - It can come to your house and you cut the mag. I'll supply the envelopes and you pay half the media postage.

How about it Poly fans? Worth $22.00 a year for poly?

I'm serious - pogueclan AT yahoo DOT com.

 

[Davelozzi]

I'm a long time subscriber to both Dragon and Dungeon, but until it was combined with Dungeon, I never read a single issue of Poly, or even an article from one. Now, I love it, and frankly, look forward to the Poly side of the issue much more than the adventures. I would gladly pay for a subscription if Poly was separated out, and would almost certainly keep my Dungeon subscription as well.

That said, the folks at Paizo have made it clear that it's not financially feasible to publish them separately. With that in mind, despite the fact that I prefer it, I think that they should kill Poly. The argument has gone on too long. It seems that the general readership of the magazine has made it very clear that they prefer Dungeon and consider Poly to be a waste of their money. Keeping both magazines combined is doing a diservice to a large portion of the customer base, probably the majority of this customer base, at least from the way things look.

Ticking off your customers seems like bad business to me, so despite my personal feelings, I say it's high time to pull the plug on Poly.

 

[am181d]

I started buying Dungeon/Poly with the mini-games and stopped buying it when they retooled. I'd prefer that they spin-off Poly or merge it into Dragon (!), but I know that neither is really a reasonable alternative...

 

[Emirikol]

Probably 20 or 30 dollars, if it has a comparable page count to other products. If it were really massive I might go up to 40.

Hmm. A subscription to Dungeon (..and poly) is $45.00. I know shipping isn't much

Since we're voting: Poly is and always has been a fine magazine, however the content is fringe material. It seems that everything that it contains everything that Dragon wouldn't put in their mag. Really? You guys have campaigns in every single one of those minigames, but can't find a use for Dungeon? I suppose if you play D20 modern or d20 future, Poly is useful and Dungeon is not. For me it's the opposite. I like Dungeon, but have no interest in Poly anymore.

Hopefully word get's out though that professionally produced adventures will extend the life of your campaigns and your DM's and Dungeon's value for solid ideas will be 'discovered'...

jh

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[Ranger REG]

Since we're voting: Poly is and always has been a fine magazine, however the content is fringe material. It seems that everything that it contains everything that Dragon wouldn't put in their mag.

Why should they put it in Dragon? That magazine already have a large readership with its current format, because a lot of them are both players and DMs (i.e., Player's Handbook owners).

Dungeon don't have the same kind of readership as Dragon. A few PHB owners may pick it up, although it is dwarfed by many DMG owners. Of course, there are DMG owners (like me) didn't feel it is worth my extra $6 or $7 since Dragon are more useful, when your compare the two.

Poly give me the kind of support -- albeit a few -- for my other games that I also play. What can I say? I'm a promiscuous gamer.

IOW, Dragon is for my D&D games, and Poly is for my non-D&D games.

 

[Wasgo]

It's constantly stated that publishing two magazines wouldn't be feasible. Isn't it therefore quite likely that neither Dungeon nor Polyhedron are strong enough to survive on their own? It's not like if publishing them together caused them to earn less money that they'd continue doing it. In spite of the outcries of some fans, Paizo still seems to think this is their best plan and I, for one, believe that.

 

[JoAT]

I'd buy a stragith Poly mag. I don't play d20 modern that often, but the thing is, most of the material in there is a gold-mine, even for D&D games (and it annoys me that alot of the material that's being puched into poly is D&D stuff). I can see people being annoyed when Hinjinx crawls into your magazine, but it had alot of play value, leaving the campagin premise alone - with it you could formulate a sort of battle of the bands for you bard character (and bug you party members into being back-up musicians), take some of the TV/comic/band stereotypes to a whole new level with some of the feats in there - Poly (to me, anyways), fdoes something more than just provide bonus play info or adventures for D&D, it also provides new ways of doing things, and for a pretty cheap price. My complaint about the whole thing? The fact that they're squeezing out poly material for The Living Greyhawk Journal... Can't this, at least, go back to Dragon, where it belongs?

 

[Stockdale]

When they first put the magazines together, I was quite unhappy. I didn't think that Poly offered me much, and I didn't like the min-games. My mind has been changed. I get good value out of both halves of Dungeon.

Keep the magazines together. Good job, Paizo.

 

[diaglo]

Poly is a PoS. a waste of good trees. a very poor representation of what was once a decent periodical.

Dungeon should cut it loose.

edit: IMO

 

[Piratecat]

Poly is a PoS. a waste of good trees. a very poor representation of what was once a decent periodical.

This is probably the most inaccurate statement I've read at EN World in the past month. I can buy that you personally feel this -- but I find it actually embarrassing to hear you state it as a supposed fact.