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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Minicol" data-source="post: 3465714" data-attributes="member: 17308">Me too, but for slightly different reasons :1. The rising cost of Dungeons and Dragons MiniaturesI bought quite a few in the beginning, but it took me a while to realise thata - they are ugly on the wholeb- a lot of them are weird creatures I would never usec- they took from my budget for RPG booksd- made in China, God knows by whom or how. China is hardly known for respecting its employees' health or freedom.Have not bought them in years, and do not intend to ever again2. The aweful proofreading of the books released by WotCExcept for the very latest ones, I would not agree hereThe problem with WOTC books, is not they are badly proofread. its, well.... THEY ARE LAME.And BORING ! My friends often comment on how my collection looks brand new. Well the secret is, even if I make my will save and manage to read one fully, it's very unlikely I will open it ever again, except maybe to look at the art.There have been a few exceptions to this of course, but the problem with the heavy formatting and uniformisation makes for poor reading, and bad gaming. Poor reading : where are the new ideas that would spark a campaign ?Bad gaming : feed a new generation of munchkin rules lawyers to disrupt my gamesI had hopes when I saw that a new series of adventures was at long last released. Except the new format sucks. It akes twice the space of the older one to convey the same level of information. Most of what is written is useless :I don't need a map to place my monstersI don't need the same information to be referenced twice or thrice  or ... in as many paragraphs. I have eyes. i can read.And I could use NEW ideas. Sure having a remake of an old favourite COULD be nice, if it was properly done, but haow about some creativity ? For a change ?3. The cancellation of Dragon and Dungeon magazinesI am ANGRY about this.DRAGON managed to turn a nice idea now and then, but mostly DUNGEON, DUNGEON was full of excellent adventures. How many wonderful home games did I build thanks to its pages ? Now it's gone.I am surprised by this : the adventures on DUNGEON were so much better than Wizards' own, that it had to happen.There were scenarios and PLOTS (something Wizards is not able to do)There were interesting adversaries (something Wizards is unwilling to provide)It was cheap (unforgivable)I surf a lot on the Internet. Seriously, I don't think how a web site could ever come close to a magazine in terms of content.Not to mention ease of use and referral duing a game.Sure, I MIGHT print pages. MIGHT....But if I spend all my money on paper and ink carttridges, where is the gain to me ?And that's assuming they manage to hire someone competent enough to fill the new website with anything remotely interesting, and I strongly doubt it. It will be so much more convenient to have just a giant online advertising page.All of this, sounds like the death of the game to me.Maybe the problem with WOTC is that they have taken a feeblemind too many ?</blockquote>

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