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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jeffh" data-source="post: 1473355" data-attributes="member: 2642">I understand the business concerns that underlie the current format of Poly/Dungeon, but it doesn't change the fact that the current situation is, from a consumer's standpoint, absurd.  It's not petty to point that out, it's just recognizing reality.Suppose Seventeen and Guns & Ammo both found that, for whatever reason, they were losing money, or maybe just not making as much as the publisher wanted.  I don't think either readership would put up with merging them into one magazine with seperate sections for each.  That's what the current format is like.  It's ridiculous.The point about price is also well taken; right now you pay nearly twice as much for the same overall amount of content you got when the magazine was bimonthly, less if you're one of those who prefer Poly.  I didn't mind paying an extra dollar once every two months for content I hardly use (Poly in my case), but I sure as heck mind paying, in effect, an extra $8 Canadian every month.  So I don't.  I only buy about every second or third issue, these days, whereas I used to buy every single one (#99 was the first one I didn't buy since 3E came out).What I'd like to know is, what was wrong with having Polyhedron as a benefit for RPGA members?  That's what it was for something on the order of twenty years, including what I understood to be a successful run for about a year after 3E came out.  As far as I can tell, there was nothing wrong with the old arrangement, and the whole problem started in 2001 or so with someone trying to fix something that wasn't broken.</blockquote>

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