So...did Dragon wow you?

[Gargoyle]

"No not really feeling it so far" pegs my feelings exactly at this point. I'm not impressed with any articles yet. But I think it has a lot to do with the "feel" or lack of feel, of the online presentation vs having a real magazine to flip through.

I might change my mind in time as more and better articles surface, but I don't think it will ever be the same.

 

[Grimstaff]

They could produce the best articles and adventures in the world, but unless its in a print version I can read at lunch break, on the couch during the wife's tv shows, have with me at the gaming table, etc, etc, its of no use to me whatsoever.

Music has a good excuse for going digital, it can easily be put into a portable form (ipod, whatever). Game products? Unless you want to dish out an extra $30 a month for printer ink, and the time waiting for it to print, why bother?

I guess I'm not sure what WotC expects us to actually do with this material. They certainly don't expect us to use it at the game table... :\

 

[Wolfspider]

Music has a good excuse for going digital, it can easily be put into a portable form (ipod, whatever). Game products? Unless you want to dish out an extra $30 a month for printer ink, and the time waiting for it to print, why bother?

How much does an ipod or mp3 player cost on average?

I guess I'm not sure what WotC expects us to actually do with this material. They certainly don't expect us to use it at the game table... :\

*shrugs*

I use digital material at the game table all the time. The only paper I use is a legal pad for notes and laminated paper cutouts of Counter Collection characters and critters. I have cut paper out of my gaming as much as possible, and I love it.

That being said, I'm not impressed with Dragon at all so far (and, you may recall, I was very excited about the new online format).

 

[Monkey King]

Not feeling it sums it up. My expectations were pretty high, and I was fairly worried that the new Dragon would kick Kobold Quarterly into the shade.

It appears my fears may have been overblown. Nick Logue, Ed Greenwood, and Skip Williams are KQ contributors, and they are rocking the new issue. Where's the top-shelf articles for the big Dragon launch?

Disappointed so far. Hoping for better material from the WotC crew by Halloween.

 

[Scholar & Brutalman]

For what's meant to be the big opening of their digital initiative, I'm pretty underwhelmed. Everything I've seen looks like what used to be called web enhancements.

I know the design staff is probably a bit busy right now, what with having to write 4th edition and all, but this is a bad start.

 

[Mieric]

They could produce the best articles and adventures in the world, but unless its in a print version I can read at lunch break, on the couch during the wife's tv shows, have with me at the gaming table, etc, etc, its of no use to me whatsoever.

Music has a good excuse for going digital, it can easily be put into a portable form (ipod, whatever). Game products? Unless you want to dish out an extra $30 a month for printer ink, and the time waiting for it to print, why bother?

I guess I'm not sure what WotC expects us to actually do with this material. They certainly don't expect us to use it at the game table... :\

Exactly - if I can't pick it up and take it with me to read anywhere without wasting additional time and money printing it out, they can keep it to themselves because I don't want it.

 

[The_Universe]

I'm exceptionally underwhelmed by what's there so far...in part because there's so little there so far. The ecology of the Death Knight isn't the worst ecology article I've ever seen...but it's also a far cry from the best. Unfortunately, that mediocre article is essentially the entirety of the content currently available. It reads like a free web enhancement, not pay-worthy premium.

I wouldn't say they're doing a bad job. However, unless there's a lot of extremely high-quality stuff coming down the pipe that's better served by appearing in a digital format, I'd just as soon save my real money for real products.

 

[Festivus]

Would i read it? Yes
Would I pay for it? Not bloody likely.

So far, I totally agree with you on this. But as the others have said, I want to wait till I see everything, particularly Dungeon before I decide if I will pay them my monthly subscription fee.

The Paizo Gamemastry and Pathfinder stuff has thus far been top notch, finding plenty for my games from those. It's not the same gaming value however that Dungeon was, because it costs me three times as much for the same content I was getting with dungeon.

I look forward to the Dungeon online stuff, but I really think the Paizo crew is what made Dungeon as good as it was.

 

[Arashi Ravenblade]

see I want the whole Magazine up front.

 

[Jack99]

Plus it isn't helping that Paizo's PAthfinder is RAWKING! If issue 2 is the key indicator of things to come I could care less about what WOTC does with Dungeon or Dragon.

How do you think issue 1 compares to issue 2? I myself found issue 1 quite weak, and havent received issue 2 yet (credit card mixup).